Physical description

Illustrated book with blue cover. Front cover has a double line border inside which title, author and edition are stamped [black ink]. Title and author's surname also stamped on spine

Publication type

non-fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Inside front cover is a small rectangular white sticker on which the previous catalogue number is written [black ink] On front endpage top right '12/-'[pencil] At base of this page is a printed black and white donation sticker: black Maltese cross in circle, "This book was donated to Alfred Archival Association Nursing Division by" Patricia Grant [handwritten black ink]

Summary

At the time of this book's peak use " hygiene" in nursing referred to what is now known as sanitation, public health and preventive medicine. Includes chapters on ventilation, diet, sanitation, infectious diseases, insects and personal hygiene