TO STOP CATARRHAL. INFECTION.
In the operating theatre tho surgeons and nurses wear strips of gauzo over their mouths arid noses, kept in place by pieces of tapo passing behind tho oars and tied behind the head. These are to filter out the bacteria in the expired air which might infect the operation wound, writes a London specialist. This simple expedient might surely bo adopted by nurses in any sick room if they havo colds. Patients in nursing homes not infrequently contract colds from nurses who cannot bo spared from duty on this account.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20626, 26 July 1930, Page 7 (Supplement)
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94TO STOP CATARRHAL. INFECTION. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20626, 26 July 1930, Page 7 (Supplement)
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