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ca. 1960
Central Sterile Supplies
These women played an important role
in ensuring that a patient’s hospital
stay had a successful outcome. Central
Sterile Supplies staff contributed to
infection control in the hospital through
issuing ready prepared trays with
sterile instruments and dressings to the
wards. They also made certain that all
wards had an adequate supply of clean
sterile syringes each day, and they
stored and managed sterile apparatus
such as orthopaedic frames, cot-sides
and drip stands.
RPA Museum Image Collection
1972
Computers
Mr Bob Fitz, a computer programmer, and Mr Andrew Mieszkowski, computer
operator, at work on the hospital’s Honeywell 516 computer. This was in the early
days of computerisation, when men wore sideburns and wide brown ties, and
computers were used for tasks that were clerical, not medical.
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