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

  • Craven, Dacre, Mrs.
Date:
1890
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Credit: A guide to district nurses and home nursing / by Mrs Dacre Craven. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    daily (or see that it is done) every drain and w.-c. in the house. She should also recommend that no one in the house should drink water or milk without its having been first boiled. 12. At the conclusion of a case the water- proof sheeting, if of really good quality, can be disinfected, but if of thin material or badly stained it should be burnt. 13. In the event of death the body should be washed with a disinfectant, and disinfect- ing powder should be sprinkled over it and on the bottom of the coffin. 14. On the recovery, death, or removal of a patient the nurse should impress upon the patient's friends the necessity of disin- fecting the room and its contents.^ 1 This disinfection will be done by the parish authorities free of cost, or by sanitary aid associations where such exist.