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WOUNDS
Wounds and cuts should be attended to at once. Above all, they must be kept clean, and should be washed at once in warm water with some absorbent cotton, or other soft material. Deep, punctured wounds, from nails, broken glass, splinters, etc., require thorough opening out and cleaning by a physician, or lockjaw may develop. While waiting for his arrival, wash the wound with peroxide of hydrogen and bandage a wet compress over it. When there is much bleeding, place a piece of absorbent cotton or clean linen over the wound and apply firm pressure with the thumb or finger, until the bleeding stops and the cotton adheres. Then apply a light bandage.
Warialda Standard and Northern Districts’ Advertiser, 17 April 1933
It had ceased raining when Clyde stepped out into Collins Stree
