3-074-783 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The New Patent Safety Canopy Cot, 1883. 'OUT of WHICH it is IMPOSSIBLE for a CHILD to FALL; and into which it is impossible for a cat,* or even a mosquito to enter, there being a safety netting in an arched frame, which lets down to the edges of the Cot, and forms a protecting canopy over it, while the nurse is absent or asleep. By a very simple arrangement the Cot is made to rock or not at pleasure; and the base of the stand being broader than the top it cannot by any accident be overturned. * See "The Lancet," Oct. 13, 1883. "AN INFANT SUFFOCATED BY A CAT.'' SOLD BY ALL DRAPERS, OUTFITTERS, & UPHOLSTERERS, SOLE WHOLESALE DEPOT, 76, WOOD-ST., LONDON, E.C. MRS. WASHINGTON MOON'S NEW PATENT SAFETY COTS, BABY LINEN, &c. PRICE-LISTS ON APPLICATION. - 164, REGENT-STREET, LONDON, W.' From "Illustrated London News", 1883.