23.  Vessel for after-birth.
24.  Three large pitchers; one for boiling water, one for cold boiled
    water, and one for antiseptic solution.
25.  Tumbler for boric acid solution for washing baby’s eyes, with fine
    old linen sterilized.
26.  One dozen freshly laundered sheets, and two dozen towels.
27.  Stocking-drawers, muslin.
28.  Change of night-clothing warmed for the mother.
29.  A warm blanket to receive the baby.
30.  An infant bath-tub.
31.  A large piece of oil-cloth to protect the floor.*

* Van Horn & Co., Park Avenue and 41st Street, New York, keep an obstetric outfit, containing many of the above articles, cleansed, sterilized, and packed in a box ready for use, so that they remain intact until needed.  The price of this outfit is $16.50.

Baby’s Outfit.—­ Four flannel bandages, to be made of fine, soft flannel, four inches wide, to go once and a third around the body.  The edges may be pinked or whipped, but should never be hemmed; a tape is sewed on double, the ends passing around the body, and so the bandage is fastened without pinning.

Six merino shirts, with high neck and long sleeves, made to button down the front.

Cotton diaper napkins, not too large; old soft ones are preferable.

Long merino stockings which can be pinned to the napkin.

Flannel petticoats, not too long; these may be made on muslin bands, which are held up on the shoulders by means of straps.  The essential in all the clothing is that it should be sufficiently loose.

Dress-slips should not be so elaborate that they cannot be washed and changed with sufficient frequency; and not so long that the baby’s feet will be hampered in their movements by them.  All of baby’s clothes but the dress should be fastened by safety-pins.

Baby’s basket should contain:  1.  One outfit of clothes. 2.  One tube of sterilized tape. 3.  A pair of blunt-pointed scissors. 4.  Large and small safety-pins. 5.  Pieces of fine old linen; old handkerchiefs are the best. 6.  A soft hair-brush. 7.  A powder box and puff, with talcum powder. 8.  Two tubes of sterilized white vaselin. 9.  Two soft towels.
10.  Castile soap.
11.  Single-bulb syringe; so-called “eye and ear syringe.”
12.  A woolen shawl or wrap.

If there is no nurse available before the labor sets in, and it is necessary for the patient to see to the sterilizing of the above articles, she should first scrub off all pitchers, basins, and other utensils, as well as the douche-pan, fountain syringe, and rubber sheeting, with a brush and hot soap-suds; the hand-scrubs are to be well washed; then each article should be pinned separately in coarse towels, and put to boil for half an hour in an ordinary wash-boiler.  The articles so boiled are then dried without removing the towels, put away, and not opened till the time of the labor.

The abdominal bandages must be laundried and pinned up in separate towels until they are needed.  The cheese-cloth must be laundried and then sterilized.