SICK-ROOMS HINTS.

Te Aroha News, Volume XIV, Issue 2109, 9 June 1898, Page 3

SICK-ROOMS HINTS.

The temperature of an invalid’s room must be kept equable (60-degrees). Let tlie patients food be always cooked in a dainty and appetising manner, and brought up to look:as inviting as possible. • Medicines should be kept by themselves, and empty bottles destroyed. Those medicines which have been discontinued by the doctor’s orders should be removed to avoid any mistake, while those in use should be kept handy,, with, a medicine glass, a small basin, and a cloth, that the glass can be rinsed and dried each time it has been used. - Never, sit on the side or lean on the footrail of an invalid’s bed. Never wear creaky boots or a rustling dres3 in his room. Never a3k an invalid what he would like in the way of food, but serve it according to the doctor’s orders,, as daiutly as possible. • ' ; ..... When starting to wash sick per-son-''don’t' bustle about it, and if pos s 1j don’t let them see the bason. Squeeze the flaunt*! or sponge and then gently sponge the face. They seem to dread-the washing when Very ill. Never whisper jn. the sick room Speak as softly as you-like, but a whisper will worry a patient and make him suspicious when he would not notice the ordinary voice. . .In putting on a poultice or. foment tadon don’t put it on suddenly or flat. Let the bottom edge touch the flesh first, and then there is no shock.

These little things may not be absolutely necessary, but they are a wonderful comfort to the patient.