FIGHT AGAINST THE H-BUG
Hospital Blanket Sterilisation
“The Press” Special Service WELLINGTON, Nov. 14. The laundry research institute at the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research at Gracefield has completed a series of successful tests on hospital blankets manufactured by a local woollen company under a special shrink-resistant process. After revelations of the incidence of the H-bug and in order to ensure general sterilisation, hospitals have sought a blanket which can be sterilised by boiling without shrinking. The blankets tested have been subjected to 24 washes under the normal hospital washing process with an extra 10minute boil in addition after each of the washes.
Total shrinkage of the special blankets has been less than 10 per cent., compared with 45-50 per cent, with normal blankets. Moreover, the blankets have shown no signs of hardening or felting and their appearance and fool is as good as when the experiment started. Normal blankets, besides being considerably reduced in area, have become solidly felted.
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Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28435, 15 November 1957, Page 13
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