Simple lectures on nursing for soldiers in India / by M.R. Truman.

  • Truman, M. R.
Date:
1912
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Credit: Simple lectures on nursing for soldiers in India / by M.R. Truman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    straightened. Get a jaw bandage and tie up the jaw so that it may set firmly and straight, place a small pad of w^et wool on the closed eyelids, and if necessary to keep the feet in positinm put a piece- of bandage round the feet and ankles. Cover the bodv with a sheet and let it lie for an hour, then wash all over seeing the finger and toe nails are quite clean, brush the hair and moustache. Plug the rectum with cotton wool to stop any discharge. Put a clean shirt and socks on the patient, a clean sheet under the body and one to cover it over with. While the bodv remains in the ward Orderlies c/ should be as quiet as possible themselves and keep the patients in the ward from talking. The body is generally removed to the mortuary and in India the Orderlies should themselves carry the body down and not leave it to Native Ward servants to do. If there is a post-mortem examination great care must be taken to w^ash the body carefully and put on clean linen. After the body has been removed from the ward, the screens should be taken away, all linen disinfected, the bedstead washed with carbolic lotion and put in the sun, the locker also should be put outside and the floor well washed over with lotion. All the patient’s private belongings should be put together and a list made of them and handed over to whoever is in charge.