six rolls of the batting should be purchased.

Surgical gauze, which tradespeople sometimes call dairy-cloth, is the
most suitable material for covering the pads. Bleached cheese cloth
will answer the same purpose, but it is more expensive and rather
heavy. Approximately thirty-five yards of the gauze, which comes in a
thirty-six-inch width, will be needed. When the supplies are
finished, they are wrapped in separate bundles and sterilized. Old
muslin or some of the diapers are generally used for covers.

_The sanitary pads_, also called vulval or perineal pads, absorb
the discharge which always occurs after delivery. They are made of
absorbent cotton and cotton-batting covered with gauze; a convenient
size is ten inches long and three to four inches wide. Their
thickness is approximately an inch, one-third of which is composed of
absorbent cotton.

_The sanitary belt_ is used to hold these pads in place. Very
satisfactory ones are made of two strips of unbleached muslin, three
inches wide. The first of these must be long enough to reach around
the waist; the second, which passes over the pad, is somewhat shorter
and has two parallel slits in one end; through which the waist-band
passes at the back; the three free ends are pinned together in front.

_The delivery pads_ are made of the same materials as the
sanitary pads; preferably a yard square and four inches thick. A
rather heavy top-layer of absorbent cotton must be used in them, and
they should be quilted or tacked at several points to prevent
slipping. A rubber pad is ill adapted for use during delivery. Some
absorbent material made into proper shape proves much more