Memorandum submitted by Resthaven Nursing
Home (FL 13)
I am the manager of a 32 bed nursing home and
we were affected by the flooding due to having no tap water for
7 days, we were unable to use our laundry, residents were unable
to have showers or baths and we did not receive a water bowser
until 18 hours after the water ran out.
Obviously this led to risks of infection and
increased work load on the home's staff who needed to flush toilets
with rainwater from waterbutts, boil all water for washing residents
on the gas oven because we had no heating/hot water due to the
boilers not working.
Working staff went to pick up drinking water
from all over the county and took washing home themselves so that
it had little impact on our residents.
Jayne Roberts
August 2007
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