LIGHT-WEIGHT SPLINTS
'A new hut of the Surgical Requisites Association Branch of. Queen Mary's Needlework Guild, at Mulberry Walk, Chelsea, was opened recently. The building accommodates about 200 workers, all ladies, employed on a special form of plastic work which is in great demand. Splints, for instance, are made in water-proofed papier maclie, very much lighter than the wood and leather formerly in use. .They also provide the comfort of » complete fit, Being made on casts taken from tbo patients. Other surgical requisites prepared in tho workshop are bandages of all kinds, antiseptic held dressings, arm and foot slings, appliances for foot and wrist drop, arm baths, crutches, leg cradles aud rests, many of them designed by members. The idea of using papier macho for splints of all sorts originated with Miss Hallo, and workers as far away as Paris and Home, Aberdeen and Dublin, have since been taught the association's methods of making those appliances.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 87, 5 January 1918, Page 5
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156LIGHT-WEIGHT SPLINTS Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 87, 5 January 1918, Page 5
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