Baths and wash-houses for the labouring classes.

  • Baly, Price Prichard.
Date:
1852
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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

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    ironing board, where they are ironed and whence they are carried away by the Washer. The importance of drying at a high temperature, or, at any rate, of exposing the clothes in the course of drying to a temperature not far short of 240°, is, in a sanitary point of view, considerable; for such a temperature tends greatly to the purification of clothes from infectious agencies, and secures the destruction of insect life. Some vermin survive being boiled; but, with their eggs, are destroyed by exposure to a dry heat. The following statement shows the results, after washing, wringing, and drying, at the Model Establishment:— Deschipiion of the Abticles. Weight when dirty, and before being washed. Weight after being washed. Weight after the wringing process. Weight when taken from the drying chamber dry. Water taken up in washing. Water extracted by the wringing machine. Water absorbed by the drying process. Time employed wring- ing. Time Temperature employed of the drying drying. chamber. lb. OZ. lb. OZ. lb. OZ. lb. OZ. lb. OZ. lb. OZ. lb. OZ. Minutes. Minutes. Degrees. welve Bather’s Towels . 7 11 1G 12 11 12 6 12 9 1 5 0 5 0 2 30 200 Ditto . 7 131 16 15 11 13 6 14i 9 H 5 2 4 111 2 25 210 Ditto . 7 15 17 4 11 n| 6 152 9 5 3 4 15 2 35 190 Tree Fine Sheets . 4 151 13 2 8 4 4 3| 8 4 14 4 o| 2 15 180 Tree Middling ditto 5 4 14 1 8 3 4 12 8 13 5 14 3 7 2 25 190 hi re e Coarse ditto 7 8 16 2 9 0 6 151 8 10 7 2 2 oh 2i 30 190 hree Small Blankets 6 15 22 151 9 10 J 6 3 16 0J 13 5 3 7* 2 15 200 Ditto . 6 10 21 4 9 1 6 0 14 10 12 3 3 1 %h 15 200 Tree Large ditto . 9 ] 24 14 12 3 8 12 15 13 12 11 3 7 3 25 210 It is obvious from this table that the drying of the things washed is most thoroughly done. The excess of the weights in the second column over those in the fifth column cannot be attributed wholly to dirt; and therefore the articles, when taken from the drying chamber, contained decidedly less moisture than they did when they were received for the wash. The following is a return of the articles dried at the Model Esta- blishment in one week ended January 24th, 1852, showing the satisfactory working of the drying chamber there, and also its great advantage in the G
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