PROVIDED WITH WASH HOUSES.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1037, 28 January 1911, Page 11

PROVIDED WITH WASH HOUSES.

If tho "poor of London are often hungry, provision is made that at least.they shall be clean, says an English writer. 1 Through, the metropolis there are public bathsand public wash houses. The wash houses are a boom to ■ tho poor woman, for not only, do, they enable her to keep her clothing anil household linen clean at small expense, but she can often tuke. in par-, eels of washing belonging to porple who aro able to pay for it, and thus make a littlo money through the wasli house.' The rates charged are very low. For the use of troughs and uther utensils, with an ample supply of hot viitcr 2d. is the cost for the first'hour; after that lid.-per hour. When'a wuman wants to boil her clothes she turns on the steam. In fact, everything is done by the aid of this power. The clothes aro dried almost immediately in the wash bouses, the great steam-driven wringing machines accomplishing wonderful feats in. exuding -the moistures; When a woman is ready to iron she turns the steam on to tho surfaco which supports the Hat irons. She pays the same rate per hour for the heating and ironing accommodation as sho did for the washing. In a couplo of hours she is able to do a fair-sized wash. London laundries charge about Od. each for such articles as white bed quills. With the aid of the public wash houso a woman may wash' and iron one of these for about 3d., including the soap. So .hat it will be seen what a help are the County Council's wash bouses to tho poor women of London.