Summary
Medical training booklet that belonged to Miss Elsie Storie of Brunswick, later of Canterbury. The booklet covers properties of gases, precautions, first aid and decontamination.
Elsie lost a cousin and other friends in World War I, and became involved in home front activities during World War II, aged in her 40s. Notes and underlines in the book indicate that she used the book while being trained. She has listed gases common in World War I at the back, and their effects: phosgene, chlorine, 'K.S.K.' (tear), mustard and lewisite (the latter not used in World War I).
Part of a collection of paper-based ephemera relating to the life of Miss Storie, a middle-class Melbourne woman who was born around 1895, lived through both wars, and remained in Melbourne all her life.
Physical Description
Small paper booklet, 14 pages plus cream paper cover, staple bound. Printed in blue with red cross on front, and hand-written user's name. Extensive text printed within, with some hand-written underlining and notes on back page, including types of gases used in warfare.
More Information
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Collecting Areas
Home & Community, Public Life & Institutions, Medicine & Health
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Mr John Millward, Mrs Millward, 2007
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Previous Owner
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Inscriptions
Printed on cover: 'PERSONAL PROTECTION / AGAINST THE GASES / USED IN WARFARE / Issued by the / RED CROSS EMERGENCY SERVICE / AUSTRALIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY / 44 Latrobe St., Melbourne, C.1 / PRICE THREEPENCE / ES9 / Copyright'. [Extensive text within.] Hand-written in grey pencil on the front cover of the booklet 'Elsie Storie'.
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Classification
Medicine & health, Health organisations, Promotional materials
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Overall Dimensions - Closed
95 cm (Width), 8 cm (Depth), 135 cm (Height)
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Keywords
Wars & Conflicts, World War II, 1939-1945, Military Medical Care, Home Fronts, Gas Warfare, Training, Education & Training