First aid in the Royal Navy.

Date:
[1914]
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Credit: First aid in the Royal Navy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    which may be used for extra bearers or as attachments for bandages securing the patient to the stretcher. B. The bamboo poles are each about eight feet long and about two inches in diameter. C. Each spreader consists of a strip of gal- vanized iron, one inch broad and quarter of an inch thick. It is permanently fixed to one pole, a swivel joint allowing it to lie alongside its pole when the stretcher is stowed. When in use, however, the spreader is used to spread the poles apart, being fastened to the opposite pole by an easily-applied hinged loop. To each spreader are fixed little iron legs (about three inches long) made of a doubled piece of the same kind of iron strip as the spreader. It is important to note that each pole has only one of the spreaders 'permanently attached to it. Thus the poles can be withdrawn from the canvas when this latter requires to be scrubbed and disinfected or stoived. D. The simple canvas strap, two inches broad and five feet long, is looped round the handles so