NEW LINEN FROM OLD PLANS

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 89, 8 January 1918, Page 7

NEW LINEN FROM OLD PLANS

The voluntary organisation for supplying comforts to wounded sailors and soldiers working under the directions of the Army .Council have been providing, among many other things, enormous number of bandages and splints for the hospitals. TFiero is, says tho London "Times," urgent need of further supplies of imislin, calico, and linen, and it is difficult to know wliero to turn to obtain these. In tho offices of engineers and architects, of railway companies, and shipbuilders, of county councils and municipalities, thero are largo numbers of 9bsoleto drawings and tracings, cartoon maps, and dingrams mounted on calico and linen, for which thore is no further use. It has been found that the muslfn and calico on which these drawings are mounted, and particularly tho tracing oloth, is of oxcellent quality, and when washed, cleaned, and sterilised are most suitable for surgical work. The drawings aro soaked in a pond for twenty-four hours, and tho linen stripped from the paper and then boiled and washed. Tho paper goes to paper mnkers. It is therefore a matter of great urgency that all such drawings and tracings should bo turned to national use. ,