Hospital housekeeping

Buying Beds; Bed Making; Ward Lockers; Care of Patients’ Clothing; Ward Medicines and Records; Adjuncts to the Hospital Ward; Quiet Room; Matters Miscellaneous; Destruction of A...

Supplies; Judging Food Values; Bread; Milk; Care of Milk; Cheese; Eggs; Economy and Care; Meat; Beef; Veal and Mutton; Chickens; Fish; Pork; Butter; Fresh Vegetables; Approximat...

Hospital housekeeping is intensely practical business. If it is to be successfully and satisfactorily conducted, it demands that the housekeeper be a woman of no inferior or unc...

“There is nothing in a hospital small enough to be careless about,” is a remark frequently heard in hospital corridors. It is important for the housekeeper to bear in mind that,...

It is in the hospital ward that the major portion of routine hospital work is accomplished, and where the nurses who will have much of the responsibility of the hospital work of...

The linen room is one of the very important parts of the institution. Demands will be made on it almost every hour, and, if the hospital is to do proper work, it must be equal t...

Perhaps no part of the hospital housekeeper’s domain will call for a greater expenditure of her energy and patience than the laundry. Though out of sight, its results are always...

With the advance in science, and a better knowledge of things desirable and things avoidable in hospital construction, a gradual change is taking place in institutions designed...

The person to whom is entrusted the purchase of the food supplies, and the direction of the general dietary for the hospital household, occupies a place of no small responsibili...

If the purchase of a good quality of food for the patients in a hospital is important, the preparation and serving of it is of still greater importance. The most expensive food...

For the housekeepers’ guidance in preparing meals for the patients, a diet list showing the number of patients to be provided for and the classes of diets required, needs to be...

“All patients shall be furnished the regular house diet, unless otherwise specially directed by the attending physician or surgeon. As a substitute for the house diet there may...

Some sage has remarked that men and women are doomed, from birth to the grave, to combat three things—disease, dirt and the devil. With a great many of the human race, the effor...

When one considers the numbers of boxes of good brass pens, the quarts of ink, and the reams of paper (to say nothing of such cheap things as brains and time and vitality) that...

Next in importance to the three vital questions which daily confront the hospital housekeeper, in common with other mortals—“What shall we eat, what shall we drink and wherewith...