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A NOVEL IDEA

PAPER GOWNS FOR VISITING NURSES. . Crepe paper is the dress material now used by the visiting nurses of Milwaukee for their working uniforms. This new idea was worked out by Dr R V. Brumbaugh. The manufacture of the gowns requires the services of a seamstress to supply the seventy visiting nurses of the Milwaukee Health Department with enough paper gowns. We read: 'Until a year and a-half ago, the nurses wore the usual cloth gowns at home in which there wa3 a communicable disease. Dr Brumbaugh had long felt that those gowns, which were leit to others to sterilise and were washed by laundries, were unsatisfactory. A careful inquiry revealed that there we're no ready-made paper gowns which exactly suited his purpose. . He confided his paper gown idea to one of the nurses, and she suggested that the gowns be made within the Department. "She bought a pattern for a nurse's gown from the local department store, and a roll of crepe tissue paper. A sample gown was made. Tests proved that it would stand up under eighteen or twenty tryings-on. The nurses who tried the gowns out in their work found them far more satisfactory than the

cloth gowns. The tests resulted in the employment of a seamstress. She used a pattern which was cut with a jig-saw out of eompo" board. This heavy pattern allowed her to cut with scissors a dozen layers of crepe tissue paper at once, which enables her to turn out sixty-six gowns a week —all of them complete with tape to fasten. "The gowns cost us approximately 50 cents apiece" (about 2s), said Dr. Brumbaugh. "This will mean a slightly higher cost per year than for cloth gowns, but the paper gown is far more satisfactory for the visiting nurse, who J must call at homes where there are con- \ tagious diseases, such as scarlet fever, I diptheria, small pox, infantile paralysis j etc. The nurses carry the paper gowns in sterile bags—the ordinary grocerystore variety of bag. A different I gown is used in every house having a j communicable disease. The gown is J saved for each successive visit to the

I home. After it. has been .rorn, it is { folded up and placed in the bag. When | the nurse no longer calls at that home, it is burned." •

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Shannon News, 14 September 1928, Page 3

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391

A NOVEL IDEA Shannon News, 14 September 1928, Page 3

A NOVEL IDEA Shannon News, 14 September 1928, Page 3

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