In most towns throughout the kingdom the laundry system is dangerous
in the extreme. For anything the healthy householder knows, the
clothes he and his children wear have been mixed before, during, and
after the process of washing, with the clothes that have come from the
bed or the body of some sufferer from a contagious malady. Some of the
most fatal outbreaks of disease I have met with have been communicated
in this manner. In our model community this danger is entirely avoided
by the establishment of public laundries, under municipal direction.
No person is obliged to send any article of clothing to be washed at
the public laundry; but if he does not send there he must have the
washing done at home. Private laundries that do not come under the
inspection of the sanitary officer are absolutely forbidden. It
is incumbent on all who send clothes to the public laundry from an
infected house to state the fact. The clothes thus received are passed
for special cleansing into the disinfecting rooms. They are specially
washed, dried and prepared for future wear. The laundries are
placed in convenient positions, a little outside the town; they
have extensive drying grounds, and, practically, they are worked
so economically, that homewashing days, those invaders of domestic
comfort and health, are abolished.
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