Hints to working people about clothing.

  • Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association.
Date:
[between 1850 and 1859]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Hints to working people about clothing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    a fortnif^lit. It is too often the custom to let the dirty linen lie together i ® I in heaps for many weeks before it is washed. This very uncleanly practice may be one reason why in some places epidemic diseases, such as the cholera, are so much more destructive than in others. 3. Both moisture and warmth favour the decay of the animal matter left in the clothes by sweat; whereas cold and dryness check it. Hence, , it is a most unwholesome practice to sleep in the clothes which are worn during the day. You ought, therefore, to have different clothing for the night. On taking off the clothes they ought not to bo folded together, but to be hung over the back of a chair, or on a rail, so as to become cool and dry before they are again worn. In like manner the bed-clothes ought, when you rise in the morning, to be turned down, and to be left for some hours e.xposed to fresh air, let in at an open window, j Some of the motives which should lead you to attend to the cleanli- i ness of your clothing, have already been named. It will improve your ' health, and render you less liable to disease. It will make you more j agreeable to those who live with you, and to your neighbours; and may tend to remove one of those causes of separation which we all so much deplore. Attention to cleanliness may be urged upon you from higher motives even than these. It may be regarded as a religious duty. In many passages in the Bible, physical purity is spoken of as in close connexion with moral purity; and it is certain that no really good man will, if he can help it, be a man of dirty habits. I In a future Trapt, some Hints will be given on Clothing, as it affects the warjiith and shape of the body. ’ Price 2s. Qd. per Hundred, or 2s. to Subscribers. Sold at the Offices of the Association, No. 33, Pall Mall, King-street, Manchester; And by Knight & Co., 90, Fleet-street, London; where also may be obtained— Tract No. 1. “ What is man, in respect to his Physical Constitution f ” Price 2s. 6d. per hundred; or, 2s, to Subscribers. Tract No. 2. “Hints to Working People about iho Houses they Live in.” Price 3s, per hundred; or, 2s, Cd. to Subscribers. Tract No. 3. “ Facts about Health worth Eccollccling.” Price Is. .3d. per ' hundred; or, Is. to Subscribers. Tract No. 4. “Hints to Working People about Personal Cleanliness.” Price ] 2s. 6d. per hundred; or, 2s, to Subscribers. ! Tract No. 5. “Hints to Working People about Clothing.” Price 2s. 6d. per hundred; or, 2s. to Subscribers. ! Other Tracts are in course of preparation. i PoWLsoN & Sons, Printers, Bow-street, John Dalton-street, Manchester.