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��A Medicine Cover Which Eliminates All Guesswork on the Part of the Nurse

MEDICINE that is to be taken a spoon- ful at a time, at intervals, should always be covered, especially if the sick person is lying in a room where the windows are open and dust enters. It is also equally im- portant that the doses be administered at the pre- cise time stated by the physician. It goes with- out saying that benefi- cial results can not be expected when medicines are administered irregu- larly, which is so often the case when memory is relied upon or where there are several persons waiting upon the sick one.

A medicine cover which will remind you when the next dose should be taken, is a recently marketed arti- cle. The face of the cover, which is made of wood, is neatly colored and numbered from one to twelve in clockwise fashion. An hour hand and a minute hand are pivoted to the center. It is topped by a sympathetic ap- pearing little figure by which the cover is lifted. After each dose is administered, the hands are set forward to the proper time for the next dose.

���The minute and hour hands on the cover tell the nurse exactly when the medicine should be

��Shielding the Munition Worker Behind Steel Walls

FILLING the large shells is not the only dangerous task in the munition plants. Loading the shell primer and fuses in which only a very small quantity of explosive is used, is almost equally hazardous. A de- fective fuse, for instance, is likely to go off and to ignite piles of fuses and powder that are near it. This source of danger has been found so great in the experience of E. P. du Pont, of Wilmington, Delaware, that he has designed a special load- ing house to protect the workers.

��The operator is separated from the ex- plosive material by a steel partition. Only the few grains of powder required to fill one or two fuses are at hand. If these grains go off, little harm is done. If the big piles should be accidentally ignited, practical- ly the entire force of the explosion w'ould be spent in the open air, on the other side of this par- tition.

The trucks that han- dle the powder supply and that take away the stacks of the finished products, all run on the outside of the partition, which is really the out- side of the building. The loose explosive is placed in the large conveying trays that are shown. By tapping these slant- ing trays, enough pow- der slides through the little neck of the tray to allow for a few fillings. This powder is then wrapped up in the fuse fabric and the product is immediately passed out on another tray near by. Fuses, that are wrapped too tightly or are made imperfect in any way, are slid down a chute into a shallow bucket to be taken away. In this way no one touches the dangerous parts.

The entrance of women workers into muni- tion factories has inspired many foremen to make extra humanitarian efforts in behalf of their employees and those dependent upon them for support.

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