Volume 1

The reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor.

Date:: 1798-1800

Credit: The reports of the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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i I.! d i. )f ie in ■ e, ? ] is 1 ri is, I is 1 ed ire ! ice BENEFIT of white-washing, &C. 121 a hair or fine wire sieve into another ves- sel, where it settles to the bottom in * solid mass of white-wash. There wi some water at the top, not imbibed by the lime; this should be skimmed off. It « then to be mixed with cold water, ti it is of the consistence of thin paint, being stir- red occasionally while it is using. In this state it is laid on with a whitening brush, by the man and his wife who have the care of the house. The quantity used for white-washing the fifteen rooms at Auckland poorhouse, is half a bushel, which costs two-pence ; the expence of the four white-washings being, in the whole, not quite eight pence a year. This trifling expenditure has pro- duced a benefit to the poor in the work- house, to those who visit it, and indeed to the parish in general, in the prevention of vermin, that is not easily to be calculated. • 1 have great pleasure in being able to say, that neither disease or vermin have a place in our poorhouse at present; but

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