Digital image on Keeper’s computer – S:/Keeper/MyPictures/Exhibitions/DisplayNewVisitorCentre. Taken December 2003.
From satchel-1998.4009.1, see 1998.4009.2-31 for rest of contents.
A sterile dressing used to treat an open wound.
The Coal Mines General Regulations (First Aid) 1930 No91 provided a listing of first aid equipment which had to be legally provided in a mine. This included, for a first aid box for use underground,- a ‘sufficient number (not less than six) of small sterilised dressings’.
Blue paper wrapping with a white label printed in black. With a brown paper pull to open tag. Contains a cotton wool pad and gauze bandage.