Baths and wash-houses for the labouring classes.

  • Baly, Price Prichard.
Date:
1852
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Baths and wash-houses for the labouring classes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    3.—Wasli-houses for the Labouring Classes. Every Wash-house to he supplied with conveniences for washing and drying Clothes and other articles. For the use by One Person of one washing tub or trough, and of a copper or boiler (if any), or, where one of the washing tubs or troughs shall be used as a copper or boiler, for the use of one pair of washing tubs or troughs, and for the use of the conveniences for drying :— For One Hour only in any One Day, any Sum not exceeding One Penny. For Two Hours together, in any One Day, any Sum not exceeding Threepence. Any time over the Hour or Two Horn’s respectively, if not exceeding Five Minutes, not to be reckoned. For Two Hours not together, or for more than Two Hours in any One Day, such charges as the Council and the Commissioners respectively think fit. For the use of the Washing Conveniences alone, or of the Drying Conveniences alone, such charges as the Council and the Commissioners respectively think fit, but not exceeding in either case the charges for the use for the same time of both the Washing and the Drying Conveniences. 4.—Wash-houses of any higher Class. Such charges as the Council and the Commissioners respectively think fit. 5.—Open Bathing Places. Where several Persons bathe in the same water, for One Person, One Halfpenny.' The third opened in London, was the Committee’s Model Establish- ment, at Goulston Square, Whitechapel, which was opened in July 1847. The total number of Bathers there, up to the end of 1851, has been 483,606, and of Washers, 63,913, representing at least 250,000
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