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SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
Utensils and Their Care 
All utensils should he kept clean and ready for instant 
use. The bedpan should always be warmed before be- 
ing used. Running warm water in and on it is usually 
the easiest" way to do this. It should be thoroughly dried 
on the outside so that it will not wet the bed. It is a 
good plan to”Trave a piece of rubber sheet or several 
thicknesses of old newspapers covered with a bath towel 
to put under the bed pan in bed. When carrying away, 
keep covered. Use cold water first, and after washing 
with soapy water, rinse and dry before putting away. 
Basins in constant use, especially if they are used 
to hold disinfectant, need to be well scoured with sapolio 
from time to time. Nothing is more shiftless looking 
than to see a dark rim of dirt or stain around a basin. 
Hot water bags should be emptied when not in use 
and hung upside down. The stoppers should be kept fas- 
tened to them. 
Ice caps should be dried inside and out and stuffed with 
cotton or tissue paper to keep the sides from sticking 
together. 
Hot and Cold Applications 
Hot applications are used to relieve pain, to supply 
heat, and to bring down temperature. Both moist and dry 
heat are used. Hot water bags, metal heaters, electric 
pads, hot flannels are the commonest forms of dry heat. 
Fomentations, poultices, and baths are the simplest forms 
of moist heat. 
In applying heat, one should be ever on the watch 
to avoid burning a patient. The skin of babies, children, 
old people, and of those who have been ill a long time, is 
very easily burned. Again, the same heat that is easily 
tolerated by one person, may burn another. 
Hot water bags or their substitute, electric pads or 
metal heaters should always be wrapped in towels or 
