Practical hints on district nursing / by Amy Hughes.

  • Hughes, Amy
Date:
1897
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Practical hints on district nursing / by Amy Hughes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    roused by the complaints of sickness, diarrhcea, and sore throats amongst the inmates. They will complain of unrefreshing sleep, headache, and nasty taste in the mouth on waking, constant weariness, loss of appetite, a tendency to boils, gathered fingers, etc. Wounds in such an atmosphere are slow in healing, and there is a marked liability to erysipelas. Investigation will generally lead to the discovery of defective drainage, and very often to dirty cisterns, also so constructed that the water can absorb sewer gas. Overcrowding. Nurses are frequently confronted by the problem of overcrowding. Too many persons occupying a room of given cubic space con- stitutes legal overcrowding, and this may be reported to the sanitary authorities. But the constant domestic overcrowding that goes on every night is really more deadly, for it poisons the children, lays the foundation for phthisis and rickets, and strongly predisposes to bronchitis and pneumonia. There is terrible mortality amongst infants from suffocation in the night, and there is no reason why, after three weeks or a month, the child should not sleep in a basket, box, or cot by the mother’s bed. This is law in Germany,