Serving Meals in a Public Ward
Each ward has a sort of tea- waggon, substantial and smooth- running. Just before meal-time, the kitchen sends up a " vacuum box" resembling a fireless cooker, containing tightly-covered receptacles, with the food piping hot. This box is set on the waggon, with the dishes and silver. Wooden standing trays have previously been taken into the
wards for those patients who need them. The nurses push their carts down the ward, serving from the vacuum box as they go, following the diet list on the back of the cart. A ward can be served in 10 or 15 minutes with scarcely an extra trip, and the food keeps hot. — From the John Hopkins Nurses Almanac Magazine.
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Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVI, Issue 2, 1 April 1923, Page 60
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121Serving Meals in a Public Ward Kai Tiaki : the journal of the nurses of New Zealand, Volume XVI, Issue 2, 1 April 1923, Page 60
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