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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Croydon 1969
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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LOAN OF NURSING EQUIPMENT
The Corporation lends equipment and makes a small weekly charge, with exemption for incomes below a certain figure.
1969
| Health Dept. | British Red Cross Society | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Central (A) | Shirley (B) | ||
| Air Rings | 67 | 17 | 2 |
| Bed Blocks | 18 | 2 | — |
| Bed Pans | 114 | 46 | 6 |
| Bed Rests | 118 | 4 | 10 |
| Bedsteads | 12 | — | — |
| Bed Tables | 4 | 4 | 1 |
| Commodes | 243 | 95 | 9 |
| Cradles | 63 | 30 | 6 |
| Crutches | 15 | 13 | 1 |
| Diapers | 357 | — | — |
| Dunlopillo Mattresses | 6 | — | — |
| Enureses Machines | 106 | — | — |
| Feeding cups | 9 | — | — |
| Foam Squares and rings | 28 | — | — |
| Foot suction pumps | 4 | — | — |
| Fracture boards (Sets) | 13 | — | — |
| Hydraulic Hoists | 13 | — | — |
| Incontinence pads | 36926 | — | — |
| Kidney bowls | 1 | — | — |
| Mackintosh sheets | 63 | 12 | 4 |
| North pads | 30 | — | — |
| Paddi pads | 32 | — | — |
| Paddi rolls | 3440 | — | — |
| Pick-up-stick | — | — | — |
| Plastic sheets | 31 | — | — |
| Protective Under-garments | 137 | — | — |
| Pulleys | 19 | — | — |
| Ripple beds | 43 | — | — |
| Urinals | 67 | 16 | 4 |
| Walking aids | 150 | 24 | — |
| Walking sticks | 9 | 19 | — |
| Wheelchairs | 102 | 135 | 8 |