| Chair | 1 |
| Desk | 1 |
| Blotting pad | 1 |
| Blotter | 1 |
| Ink-well | 1 |
| Penholder | 2 |
| Pens, | |
| Erasers, | |
| Ink | 1 |
| Pencil | 1 |
| Red Pencil | 1 |
| Rubber bands | |
| Office: | |
| Clips | |
| Ruler | 1 |
| Waste basket | 2 |
| Hand blotters | 12 |
| Ink, Red and Black | |
| Charities Directory | 1 |
| Map of Manhattan in Sanitary areas | 1 |
| Report on vital statistics | 1 |
| Babies’ Welfare directory | 1 |
| Guide Cards Baby Health Station | 1 |
| Examining Room: | |
| Table | 1 |
| Pad | 1 |
| Pillow | 1 |
| Foot bench | 1 |
| Shelves or side table for supplies, etc. | 1 set |
| Garbage pail | 1 |
| Pelvimeter | 1 |
| Tape measure | 1 |
| Stethoscope | 1 |
| Tenaculum | 1 |
| Scissors | 1 |
| Bivalve speculum | 1 |
| Uterine Dressing Forceps | 1 |
| Blood Pressure machine (Tycos) | 1 |
| Thermometers | 3 |
| Thermometer Glasses (1 for cotton) | 2 |
| Enamel jars for tampons and pledgets | 2 |
| Large basin | 1 |
| Small basin | 1 |
| Erlenmeyer flasks for green soap and Lysol | 2 |
| Medicine Glass | 1 |
| Hand Scrub | 2 |
| Rubber gloves, No. 7½ | 6 pr. |
| Absorbent cotton | 1 lb. |
| String | 1 ball |
| Spatulæ | 100 |
| Hemoglobinometer (Tahlquist) | 1 |
| Needles (skin) | |
| Wassermann Set from D. of H. | 1 |
| G. C. Smear Set from D. of H. | 1 |
| Culture tubes from D. of H. | |
| Bandages (Ace) | 6 |
| Sterilizer | 1 |
| Sterilizer burner | 1 |
| Metal Shelf or table for Gas sterilizer | |
| Scott Tissue Towels | 6 |
| Urinalysis outfit | 1 |
| Test tube rack | 1 |
| Test Tubes | 12 |
| Test Tube holder | 1 |
| Urinometer | 1 |
| Sterno | |
| Matches | |
| Enamel Measure | 1 |
| Dish (Chamber) | 1 |
| Litmus | |
| Acetic Acid 2% | |
| Toilet paper | |
| Funnel | 1 |
| Filter paper | |
| Covered pail | |
| Linen: | |
| Sounding towels (for use in listening to F. H.) | 6 |
| Sheets | 6 |
| Pillow cases | 3 |
| Doctor’s gowns | 2 |
| Dusters | 6 |
| Gown’s for patients | 12 |
| Covers for tables | q.s. |
| Laundry bags | 2 |
| Towels | 6 |
| Sewing Bag: | |
| Cotton 70 | |
| Cotton 30 | |
| Needles, assorted | |
| Thimble | |
| Tape measure | |
| Tape | |
| Safety Pins | |
| Plain Pins | |
| Drugs: | |
| K Y | |
| Lysol | |
| Green soap | |
| Boro Glycerin | |
| Alcohol | |
| Iodin | |
| Albolene | |
| Breast Tray: | |
| Castile soap in dish | |
| Small bowl | |
| Bottle of albolene | |
| Jar of cotton balls | |
| Soft toothbrush | |
| Exhibit on Table: | |
| Patterns for baby clothes. | |
| Complete layette. Slip and petticoat open in back. | |
| Basket for baby bed. | |
| Pad (of felt or hair mattress). | |
| Rubber. | |
| Pillow cases. | |
| Blanket (crib). | |
| Doll (baby) dressed. | |
| Suspender garter for mother—abdominal support with garters. | |
| Patient’s bed prepared for time of delivery, newspaper pads. | |
| Toilet Tray: | |
| Jar of boiled water (for washing mother’s nipples). | |
| Jar of oil (mineral oil best). | |
| Jar of boric acid—2% for baby’s eyes. | |
| Jar of breast swabs. | |
| Jar of small swabs. | |
| Absorbent cotton in container (hair receiver). | |
| Soap in dish. | |
| Soap with safety pins, instead of pincushion. | |
| Jar for clean nipples. | |
| Bottle and nipple, or cup and spoon for giving baby water. | |
| Bottle of boiled water (day’s supply boiled fresh each day) and kept corked. | |
| Newspaper cornucopia for waste. | |
Contents of Nurse’s Bag:
Any nurse may remove from her bag any article not necessary in her district or for any one day’s work, provided she makes note of same on card, which is left in bag pocket, stating where removed articles may be found.
- 1 mouth thermometer
- 1 rectal thermometer
- 1 baby scale
- Acetic acid—2%
- 1 test tube
- 1 test tube holder
- 1 test tube brush
- 1 blue litmus
- 1 urinometer
- 1 sterno
- 1 matches
- 2 specimen bottles
- Paper napkins
- Soap and hand scrub in bag
- 1 flashlight
- 1 fountain pen
- 1 Babies’ Welfare Directory
- 1 Board of Health Station card
- 1 Sounding towel in envelope
- 1 abs. cotton in envelope
- 1 scratch pad
- Addressed postals
- Advice to mothers
- Letterhead memo pad and envelopes
- Pink cards
- Maternity Records for patients to
- be visited
- Blank Maternity Records
- Prudential Ins. Co. Baby Primer
- 1 Tycos Blood Pressure apparatus
- 3 Ace Bandages
- 1 Street directory
MATERNITY CENTRE STANDING ORDERS FOR NURSES
These standing orders may be used at the discretion of the nurses when a patient is under no other medical supervision. When patients are registered with a midwife, may be used with her consent.
Ante-Partum Orders
Cathartic: After hygiene, diet, prunes and senna have ailed, use either Cascara, grains 5, or, Licorice Powder, beginning with drams 2 and reducing dose gradually. For neglected constipation use one-half pint warm oil (sweet oil, albolene or olive oil) enema, followed in one-half hour by soap suds enema (this treatment to be given by the nurse). Heart Burn: After advice as to diet, water, habits, constipation, use Soda Bicarbonate tablet, grains 10 (do not advise or allow Baking Soda). Binder: Abdominal binder like pattern P.R.N. for heavy abdomen, backache. Brassiere: Brassiere for breast support P.R.N. (Debevoise tape best if patient can afford; if cannot afford have patient make one like sample support at Center). Toxemia: Until medical attention can be secured advise: 1. Mild—as much rest as possible; force water 8 to 10 glasses a day. Diet—milk, cereals, vegetables, stewed fruits and oranges (no peas or beans).
Post-Partum Orders:
Breasts: For all cases instruct mothers to leave breasts alone, no pumping, no massage. Supporting binder P.R.N. (brassiere best). For engorgement, follow preceding, and restrict so-called milk-making foods, but not water. To dry up milk, follow preceding and advise sodium phosphate daily in frequent small doses (about drams 1). For cracked nipples, apply paste of Bismuth Subnitrate and Castor Oil, equal parts each. Use nipple shield. If not healed report to Central Office. Cathartic, Cascara grains 5, or mineral oil ½ dram, or licorice powder drams 2. For neglected constipation, use enema as described for ante-partum patients.