“WORTHY OF TRIAL”
Comment By Dr. Morton “The dry-washing of new-born babies has not been tried in North Canterbury hospitals, but it is certainly worthy of a trial,” said the Medical ’Superintendent of Christchurch Hospital (Dr. T. Morton) yesterday. Many hospitals in New Zealand used soaps and creams containing hibitane, he said. The use of hexachlorophene, often known as hibitane. because of its inhibitory effect on the growth of pathogenic organisms, was not new.
“For a time, in one of the board’s maternity hospitals, oiling the skin of the new-born baby and avoiding washing was found to result in a marked decrease in minor skin infection, but it is difficult to introduce measures which seem the abnegation of accepted measures of cleaning the skin,” Dr. Morton said. There was no doubt that the fess a baby was handled by anyone but its mother, the safer it was from the point cf view of cross-infection, he said.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28976, 18 August 1959, Page 6
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