SIMPLE SICK-ROOM HINTS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16911, 9 December 1922, Page 5

SIMPLE SICK-ROOM HINTS.

Next time anyone falls ill in your house, remember these hints. Don't . lot everj’oue who calls to after th* < sufferer go up to see tho patient, j There are some people who should never « be admitted. We all know the fussy person, who J can do nothing without noi*.* and j bustle, and the visitor who conies tip- j toeing into the room, talking in a sub- ; dued tone that gets on our nerves. Such people do more harm than goo., to the invalid. Then there are the people who have , » bad habit of sitting on the patient's j bed, shaking the unfortunate sufferer i with every movement made. As to conversation, don’t allow any j thing morbid and don’t let visitors ! stay too long. Books for the patient to read should be interesting, but not ta£ exciting or sad Have the sick-room as far away from noise as possible, and let it be a sunny place and well ventilated, but without draughts. Don’t have a wallpaper that may suggest weird figures, and see that the pictures ou the walls are of a cheering nature. Change them occasionally i: the illness is a long one. to that thero may be something fresh to look at also to be varied.