HEALTH BY SIMPLE MEANS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 May 1930, Page 23 (Supplement)

HEALTH BY SIMPLE MEANS.

PURE AIR IN THE SICK ROOM. (By H. C. Aylen.j The home nurse may be glad to know a few ways of peeping the air of the eick room sweet and pure.' Prevention is better than cure, so never keep in the room anything that is likely to taint the air. Burn immediately all surgical dressings which have been replaced by fresh ones, remove any food left over from a meal, and take all out-of-doors clothing into another room. The window should remain open a little at top and bottom, care beingtaken, of course, to see that the room is sufficiently warm. If the room seems stuffy, put a few red-hot coals on a shovel and pour a little aromatic vinegar over them. This will thoroughly fumigate tbe room. The smell of cooking food is singularly objectionable to .an invalid; sc is the rattle of crockery being washed. Keep the sick-room as free from contact with kitchen work as possible. Have no carpet on the floor if yon can avoid it. If there is one which cannot be removed, cover it with clean linen drugget. Of course, the amateur nurse will be careful to keep medicine and disinfectant bottles apart, since the latter are usually poisonous. A cheap disinfectant can be made from three pennyworth of permanganate of potash mixed with three quarts of water. It stains linen and the skin, so it must be carefully nsed.' r ' : ‘ .