A Dividing Stretcher

on it throughout the operation, and when it was over bamboo poles were slid into the hem on each side and two looped iron rods passed over the ends of the poles to keep the stretcher from sagging. The patient was then lifted on to a wheeled carriage and taken to his bed side. Here the difficulty of lifting the patient off the stretcher into bed without any exertion on his part was often very apparent. Though warned to lie " limp " very few really did so but subcon-