LIGHT IN THE INVALID'S ROOM.
A custom still prevails, despite all our sanitary teachings, that the occupant of the sick room in the private house should be kept at all hours in a darkened room. Not one time in ten do we enter a sick room in the daytime to find it blessed with the light of the sun. Almost invariably before we get a look at the face of tho patient, we are obliged to request that the blinds be drawn up, in order that the rays of a- much greater healer than the most able physician can ever hope to be may be admitted. Too often the compliance with this request reveals a, condition of room which, in a state of darkness, is almost inevitably one of disorder everywhere—foods, medicines, furniture, bedding misplaced, dust and E(ti-ay leavings in all directions. In brief, there is nothing so bad as a dark sick room; it is if the attendants were anticipating the death of the patient, and if the reason for it be asked, the answer is as inconsistent as the act.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 November 1913, Page 2
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182LIGHT IN THE INVALID'S ROOM. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 25 November 1913, Page 2
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