Hints to avoid catching fevers and other diseases / The National Health Society.

Date:
[1890?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to avoid catching fevers and other diseases / The National Health Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NATIONAL HEALTH SOCIETY, 53, BERNERS STREET, OXFORD STREET, W, SYLLABUS OF FOUR HOMELY TALKS. TALK I, How to make the Home Healthy and Happy. Wliy we want Fresh Air—How we can Ventilate and have Pure Air in our Rooms—How to find out if the Air in a Room is Good-—Why we want Cleanliness—The Effect of Sunlight on Health and Temper- Necessity for Airing and Shaking Bedclothes, Carpets, etc.—Necessity for Personal Cleanliness. TALK II. What to Do until the Doctor comes. How Disease lurks in Darkness and Dirt—Danger of Infection from Drains, Cisterns, Sinks, and Dust-bins—-Precautions as to Milk and Water—The Use of Disinfectants—Burns, Scalds—What to do if Dress catches Fire—Cuts, Bites, Stings—What not to do and to do if a Person has broken a Leg or Arm—What to do if a Person falls Insensible—What to do if a Person has swallowed Poison. TALK III. Accidents, and How to Treat Them. Different Kinds of Bleeding—How to Dress a Wound—Sprains Triangular Bandage—How to Restore apparently Drowned People. TALK IV. Nursing the Sick. Why Fresh Air and Cleanliness are so necessary in Illness—How best to Ventilate the Sick Room—Use of Disinfectants—Arrangement of Sick Room—The Bed and Bedding—Bed-rests—Duties of the Nurse to Doctor and Patient—Attention to Temperature—Preparations for the Night—How and when to give Food and Medicine—Washing the Patient — Prevention of Bed-sores — Practical Demonstration of Arrangement of Bed—Changing Sheets, etc. Members of the Society are entitled to a certain number of these ‘Homely Talks [ free for the poor of their neighbourhood.