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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
Heston and Isleworth 1911
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Heston and Isleworth]
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LESSON XVIII. (Practical).
Home Nursing.
How to take temperatures. The normal temperature.
Counting the pulse. The normal pulse-rate.
Counting the respirations. The normal rate of breathing.
Use and reading of bath and room thermometers.
LESSON XIX. (Practical).
Home Nursing.
How to make a sick person comfortable.
Dressing and lifting patients.
Use of feeding cup.
Bed making.
Changing of sheets and draw sheet.
Changing of night gown.
Methods of sponging and washing patients.
LESSON XX. (Practical).
Home Nursing.
Measurement of medicines.
Making up of solutions of disinfectant.
Making of linseed and mustard poultices.
Making of fomentations.
Equipment.
1 doll, large, washable.
1 feeding bottle, ordinary, with long tube attached.
1 feeding bottle, boat shaped, with reversible teats.
1 brush for cleansing feeding bottle.
2 jugs (I pint).
1 plate.
1 cup and saucer.
1 table spoon.
3 earthenware or enamelled basins.
1 kettle.