Bedpan
Parkdale - Maplewood Community Museum
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| Object Name: | Bedpan |
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| Category: | Hygiene artifact |
| Material: | Metal |
| Accession Number: | 2020.001 a-b |
| Earliest Production Date: | 1959-01-01 |
| Latest Production Date: | 1960-12-31 |
| Description: | Has two holes one big one with b) cover and a smaller one on top. It is flat at one end and higher and rounded at other end with a handle. b) cover with a handle on top. |
| Narrative: | The bedpan was used by donors father when he came home from hospital. |
| History of Use: | While healthy adults could use a chamber pot, which might be kept in a cabinet or attached beneath a hole in a chair seat, the bedpan was designed for the immobile. Bedpans were considered household staples for much of history. |
| Height: | 15.7 cm |
| Length: | 40.2 cm |
| Width: | 31.5 cm |
| Institution: |
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| Institution City: | Maplewood |
| Institution Province: | Nova Scotia |