A guide to district nurses and home nursing / by Mrs Dacre Craven.

  • Craven, Dacre, Mrs.
Date:
1890
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A guide to district nurses and home nursing / by Mrs Dacre Craven. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and the nurse should see that it is done. 6. All discharges from the bowels, bladder, or mouth should be received into vessels containing some disinfectant. Rags should be used instead of pocket-handkerchiefs, and burnt directly they have been once used, 7. All changes of bed and body clothes, diapers, and towels should be plunged on their removal from the patient into a pail of water containing a disinfectant recom- mended by the medical man in attendance. If diluted carbolic acid is used, put one part to thirty of water, or half a tumbler of the acid to fifteen tumblers of water. If Condy's fluid, put two fluid ounces {i.e. a wineglass- ful) to every gallon of water. This disin- fectant, however, is liable to injure blankets; If chloralum is used, the nurse must rinse the