Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-11-29
STATE HOUSE.
State Board Of Health
Issues lsat|st No. g.
Emma GetcheII Pardon Case
Will Be Heard To-day.
Maine Fidelity Co. Votes TO In
crease Capital Stock.
STATE HOUSE CALENDAR.
Next Meeting of Governor and Coun
Gil Tuesday, Nov. %, at $50 A. M.

issued from its Office at the State
House lealiet No. . of the Health of
Home and School series which deals
with the treatment of cuts and other
wounds. The text Of the leafet is as
follows:
Cuts and Other Wounds.-A surgeon
who was in the war OF the rebellion,
comparing the treatment of wounds
at that time with the treatment which
wounds received in the Spanish Ameri-
can War about forty years later re-
marks that. in that earlier war, anti
sertics We're not used: nc attempt was
made to sterilize the part to be OPP
Grated on, or the surgeons hands. or
his instruments; in the hospitals the
nurse Went from patient to patient
with the same pan, sponge. and dress
ing instruments msteriliZed.
In the SpaniSll-American War every
man carried a little package the first
aid. containing gauZc and bandagcs
and other neceSsareS for the ilnmedi-
ate dressing of wounds, and which
could be applied at once by tho man
himself or by his comrade. In the
work of the surgeons there was as
rigid an adherence TO the rules Of
cleanliness as possible
The results are, while in the Civil
War there was deatl-rate of twenty
five per cent. from gun shot wounds.
in the Spanish American War the
death-rate from the same kind of in
jurice was only six per cent.
First Aid in the Home.-TwentyfVc
per cent of the wounded dying in the
civil War, and not one quarter as
many in our later war should set us
to thinking. In Lcafict No. 4 you have
been told something about the danger
of uncleanliness in and around tht
nome. This lcannt is to show the dan
g"r of continuing in the old unciean
WAYS of taking care of cuts and other
wounds. and 20 tell how. in tn. home
or at school. to apply tho FIRST aid
dressing.
Sources of Danger.-If cuts and other
ordinary wounds are clean ard art
kept clean (surgicallv cloanD they
VIII heal quickly and there will be oniy
Slight inflammation, no ''fcsterine.' or
formation of puS, or blood POISONING
or other serious results; but :. them
treatment is not in accordance with
the laws of strict cleanliness, danger
Gus results may follow slight cuts amt
scratches. the prick Of thorn or =
splinter, or the bite OF ar Ar,m't
Tie skim protects tn" tSSH'$ !"
meath it against injuries and excludes
germs which, when they have a g ''2!0".
cause inflammation, surrUration. hlH"'
yui>oning. lockj@W "l'Nsipt 8 AMI
S:ngrcn".
The germs which produce thu s. "a
aercuS conditions or diStaS''' come
fl I'm unclcan things causing thN
wounds: from the dirty C0nditlon a.
the skin throu&h which the wounds
are made, from unc'"an hands WHICH
handle OF dress the wounds: from va
tn which has not been %tcriilzcd nE
boiling before it is used for wishln%
wounds. or water IN un:l"an ";iSiliS'
or applied With Gncl"an sn"h"'% or
cloths: from dirty substance" W!'ic'
arc applied t. " funds: and from hE-
clean mnsteriIi<cN cloths "r com
presses or banda gcs applied to Wounds
in Dir, ssng thcn.
OF uncl,an things. the ttttn ana
claws Of cats and dogs when they
cause wounds always carry through
the skin possibilities OF serious oan'
ger. old nails or sharp stones IN OF
unon the earth carry with their uil'
III, Gan.,r of lock jaw bccahSe the
Germ rr that awful disease lives ~
the soil. particularly. uncleah SOIL.
Of mclean skins, that OF the most
clna.,lN utrSon sometimes harborS III
i,u scales or n.slleS the dangerous
germs of euppuration: and the SKIN
oe tha hoy cclcbra ting the Fourth often
e:npIios the germs OF lockjaW wnlcn
tho exnlodjng cap of the toy pistol
drives through III" skin.
OF ;,nclean substances applied l"
wounds. puff balls to stop bleeding
or any other materials when nav
,..n exposcd to dust and dirt are dan
SGrous.
M Domestic First Md Pa'ia re
In n clean widc-mouthcd bottle VII.
clean stopper, keep q nan p"u'lo ~
horic acid for use on man or beast 1t
will not cost much.
coo,ed IN in clean paper wrappers
keen supply OF congresses -. o'l..
ort sizes made of surgical eanHe
All readl to use Mt short notlt''
surgical gau2e can be had from CIV
drug stores, or the congresses '"i'
made of cheese cloth or old sou ''iiN'
ar cotton when mas netH "''.'
tier boiled, and then on cie'i'
mates. has been dried in an oven gu
left there exposed for several i'""'
10 as great a degree Of heat Is my
he without scorching or h'rt''h" H.
II uould he still safer if these com
n,.osses and the sterilized cheest'-ci"th
ora urapDed inside of several tilrh
,oscac of stcriliZed cheese-cloth b"tff
the paper wrappers are put on.
Got from the druggist also an as.
sort,,,ent 81 steriizcd bandages from
ooa 70 t,yo inches wide and of dlnereht
lengths. They come in air-ught PACK
ages and should never be opened uil,''
they are to be used.
Get from the druggist also lou.
ounces of creolin. Have ii laoeied
"PoiSon."
Keep these things all closed up igh'-
IL away from dust in snec'ai cream
box where they may quickly be fouho
when needed.
How to Use Them-1f in the home
or school an accident occurs and the
skin is cut or torn. the first consldera-
ton is the question of cleanliness OF
the wound and its surroundings II
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