A healthy home.

  • Vacher, Francis, 1843-1914.
Date:
[1901]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: A healthy home. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    HOW TO KEEP IHE HOUSE CLEAN. Methodical Supervision—Where Dirt comes from—Cleaning Bed- rooms-Morning Airing—Dusting—Cleaning Sitting-rooms— Sweeping—Cleaning Hall, Passages. Staircase, &c.—Clean- ing Kitchen and Scullery—Cleaning Saucepans, Knives, and Forks, &c.—Blackbeetles—Cleaning Larders, Cellars, &c.— Spring Cleaning. A GOOD deal has been already said incidentally on the necessity of keeping every part of the house clean. How- ever well planned and constructed the healthy home may be, however well warmed, ventilated, fitted, and furnished, unless it be kept clean it cannot remain healthy. This business of cleaning is for the housewife to attend to; and to be done well the housewife must have full knowledge of what is required, and must work and supervise methodically, regularly, and almost continuously. Keeping the house clean is a very different thing from having a periodical clean- ing of a dirty house. Whether the staff under her be large or small, the housewife must utilise to the full all the skill and labour at her command, like a practised genera], assigning each task to the person who can best perform it. She will then know who is responsible in case of neglect or failure. Since prevention is better than cure, much will be accomplished in preventing dirt being deposited by inculcat- ing cleanly habits. In answer to the preliminary question—whence comes the K