Home & Country Newsletters (Stoney Creek, ON), Summer 1958, page 25

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and resourceful with their exhibits as well as ' with skits and demonstrations, For one skit a “sick room" was set up on the V Stage with a patient in the bed and a worn out member of the family in attendance. Friends who had attended the leaders' train- ing school came to the rescue. elevated the bed, made a back rest and fixed a support under the patient‘s knees. in short they did all the things suggested at the training school in make the patient comfortable and to make the work easier for the home nurse. One group demonstrated making the im- provised sick-room equipment as shown at the training school, Another demonstrated medi~ cations suggested at the school such as the right, way to make a mustard plaster and apply it. One had a good exhibit in miniature using a doll for a patient with miniature models of a dressing-gown made from an old sheet, a bed-jacket from two towels, bedroom slippers from newspapersâ€"an excellent idea for a Case of contagious illness. Other groups showed the same articles in normal size. An- other demonstration showed how to make a ‘hospital bed gown from a man's shirt, Still another dealt with how to make the sick room more pleasant, which of course included an attractive tray; and an explanation of how to use a tea pot as substitute for a glass Will] a bent tube in giving liquids to a patient who cannot sit up. (The spout of the tea-pot takes ' the place of the drinking tube! An exhibit that caused a good deal of amusement was a display of a variety of articles that could be used to heat a bed. (There are still places in Ontario whore thL-i'o is no electricity to heat an electric pad. and a few spots where a hot water bottle has hut-n ' known to freeze in the night.) The array In? cluded everything from the old flat iron. a ‘ brick, a stone or a bag of salt to the oven heated mail-order catalogue. At many of the summary days there \\‘a.\' a uest speakerâ€"the local doctor. or a (iiictui‘ or . i Members at Rainy River Summary Day wilh the dolls used in their miniature exhibit to model Cl special house 00' arid bed iuckel. The exhibit included many of the improvised articles in the "Hints for lhe Home Nurse" roiecl. Al the left is the guest speaker, Miss Margarel rummond of the Ont. Sociely for Crippled Children; I- the right, Miss Grace Hamilton of Home Economics Service. The pitturci cibovt- show Ihc liner.- main “HP! in for] making as drruonslrnlrrd ul Grr-y (ounly's summary duy: Preparinq ll"; convoy Cuilinq a pnllcm iron: ilu» lug maki-i‘v. oriqinul dvslgn. The technique oi tut] hooking ltllt‘fil' from HIV i-uiinti' III-:illh Hint, or :i sprink- l'l‘ on civil rlcfHIi-v HI' .‘I ill‘llllllihll'illtll' uf Ili'll lii‘lHI rvspii'ntinn ui' tlii- whim-.mp- “1' :i Iilin UH :.Iln'll' ill‘llilil .‘-'lll>_lt,'l“i. ill illti;l l'il lVil‘w; Hunt titan, iill‘ Jllr‘ll‘lll'liil‘. um ll'll'l'l' tn i'I-Hmwlil or in :uwwvr (llll‘ lllJH‘. Amt it- Hi ullt'i'inini‘v rltti's' (Jll ullii-i' IN'IIJI'I‘lfl mn- iil' IIII' mime mating («mun-1‘ \ru- llir- “‘llllll'll. rl\\|l I‘vlmr'L mu Hi what lln- inuJi-rl luirl lllt'illll In llli‘lll [usinmlitillit In limb. l‘nr illt' Hmnr Nth-m .‘i lll‘lll‘ill rnr‘ntinm-rl Iw .‘t tll'l'Hl inniw wornvn was that for llir- iil'nl lll'lll' in llll'lr‘ l|\'l*:: they hurl il‘ill'lll'li ll. H'illi 4: clinical liil'l'lrllllllv i-ICI‘. 'ri‘ll'l't' \L‘rr'c- T7 'l'i'nuiinu Svlumls l'ur illl'Eli leaders l'ir-Irl Wllil mm “FUNDS ur lnstillilm; IvL.pl'(-_q(in1QfL Frnni iilt' llwul gi'rittpa 72237 \lxriill. i-n took part. in lhi- variant fll'lfll'l‘it-L 25

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