COMFORT FOR THE INVALID.
■ I. an invalid has to spend a bng time Jn bed i!, i.> a good idea to place a bolster under ilic bed clothes at the foot of the bed, to take the weight of the clothes off the feet. For the tendons of the feet aio apt to stilt'.mi with the continual flattening down oi the clothes. It is a simple to do, but it makes for greatei "comfort for the invalid. A draw-sheet, to, is almost essential 5n many illnesses, for it helps to do away with too constant a disturbing of the patient when changing the sheets. A long stlip of linen or sheeting or calico is laid arrnss the bed with length at one side (tucked in, of course) to allow it being drawn under the patient from tin- short side when a fresh section 5s required It will be found that very little lifting of the patient is required this *vay to renew a fresh space of the sheeting.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20620, 19 July 1930, Page 7 (Supplement)
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168COMFORT FOR THE INVALID. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20620, 19 July 1930, Page 7 (Supplement)
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