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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    patient's friends must be advised to make a paste of chloride of lime or of carbolic powder and fill all crevices with it be- tween the planks of the flooring and the skirting-boards. The bedstead must be kept at least a foot from the walls, and the legs of the bedstead should be placed on saucers filled with water with a little carbolic in it. The blankets and bedding must be sprinkled daily with Keating's insect powder. Where these directions are strictly fol- lowed, all vermin will in time be got rid of. An ordinary dust-pan with flannel on its Extem- porary edge makes a good slipper bed-pan. The bed-pans, handle must be held well down. Extem- porary bed-pans can also be made out of a soup plate. A very good urinal for men is an