The hospital steward's manual : for the instruction of hospital stewards, wardmasters, and attendants, in their several duties; prepared in strict accordance with existing regulations and the customs of service in the armies of the United States of America, and rendered authoritative by order of the Surgeon-General.

  • Woodward, Joseph Janvier, 1833-1884.
Date:
1863 [©1862]
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Credit: The hospital steward's manual : for the instruction of hospital stewards, wardmasters, and attendants, in their several duties; prepared in strict accordance with existing regulations and the customs of service in the armies of the United States of America, and rendered authoritative by order of the Surgeon-General. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    issue of clean articles to the ward, and their return soiled, and on the other the issue of soiled articles to the laundresses, and their re- turn clean. But in neither case should she allow articles to go out of her hand without a memorandum made, setting forth the number of each article issued, and the person responsible. The chief articles which will thus pass through her hands are— Sheets, coverlets, blankets, bed-sacks, pillow- cases, towels, mosquito-nets, and hospital suits, consisting of shirts, drawers, and socks. All these articles should be marked U. S. Hosp. Dept., with indelible ink. Besides these articles of hospital property, it is usual for the soiled clothes of patients to be washed in the laundry. The female nurse in charge of the linen- room, with her assistants, should also be re- quired to see that the articles are in a proper state of repair, and, if not, to mend them care- fully before issuing. 12