FIRE PREVENTION.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2905, 4 July 1925, Page 1

FIRE PREVENTION.

The following is an extract from a pamphlet on “Fire Prevention,” issued by the New Zealand Government State Fire and Accident Insurance Office:— HINTS ON THE TREATMENT OF BURNS. Fire in clothing is particularly dangerous and demands instant action. If possible, tear off the burning clothing or smother it: by wrapping the body in woollen blankets or other handy woollen material, lowering the person to the ground face downwards. Cotton material will take fire. In all cases [ of serious scalds or burns medical i aid should be summoned inmiedi- | afely. When skin not broken or blistered apply boracie acid or baking-soda lotion , carron oil, vaseline, or boracie ointment. For more severe burns carefully remove clothing from injured part and treat as follows: — 1. Dry Dressing. Sprinkle boracic acid powder thickly over burn and wrap in sterile cotton-wool (best from an unopened package) ' or in strips of clean linen. -. Wet Dressing. Soak boracie

lint in water, wring out lightly, ap ply In burn and fix with bandage, 01 .-.oak plain lint or strips of (dean linen in a lotion made by adding tr water as much boracie acid or bak-ing-soda as can be dissolved there - in, wring out, apply to burn and tix with bandage, or soak plain lint or strips of clean linen in a solution of picric acid in water, wring out, apply to burn and fix bandage. 3. Oily Dressing. Apply boracie ointment on lint or on strips of (dean linen, then bandage lightly. Carron oil (lime-water and linseedoil in equal parts, or lime-water ten purls, oliva-oil nine parts, and eu-calyptus-oil on art) may ire ap plied in the same manner.