HEAD TO FOOT WASHING.

Manawatu Times, Volume III, Issue 32, 30 January 1878, Page 3

HEAD TO FOOT WASHING.

At the recent Domestic- Economy CongreTss, held at Bi rminghavn, Mr. Edwin iOhadwjek, C:IJ.,; said .,. the effect of cleanliness, was not sufficiently recognised. Hef bund evidence of its effect in' various ways: Dealing' with'the animal 'creation, he said the pig ih'at''Vw^is/.. ! ,waßhed^ would.', put on one-fit'th;, more .flesh with the same amount of food than the pig 'that was umvashe.d.;.-;The same effect was' obserVaiile m: other animals. ■-■■'. Tney f had seen the horse washed frbin head to to give it additionaV force. 'The same airgument applied to. the human; creature. He knew the case of an army hemmed' m by -the enemy and put upon half rations. Head to foot washing , was. L not only important m the matter "of economy m food, but also for| ;the. preyention pf contagious disea'se7 Nurses who attended: sacrlatina cases and- other cases of contagious 'disease had found out, that, by washing twice a day, and sometimes by changing their clothes, they might withstand the dangers resulting t'rom : the practice, and doctors who were similarly engaged, liad come to the uatn.! ; conclusion. Ap a defence against an outbreak of epidemic disease he would have the whole population tubbed.; He.mehtioned that m a priooii containing 12(K) persons washing was enforced and instead of using7o or 80 gallons of water for each bath, andcausing a large expenditure of "time, a very pimple method was devised f or giying the prisoners'ia, thorough igpod bath. Each man ; was ; place.d i m; a : -recess,. with a spray of tepid water, overhead ?which • coinpietlyi elesfiised himi Schools afr which uiiwadhed children were centres bf childreh's' TPnpidemios.-^They : were well aware' "of that m Holland, for if it were discovered at any school there thait a child had not been ..." tubbed "it was taken aside,^properly washed and the mother, was admonished that she must not send her child to school again m that condition.. There vv^ an .enormous sanitary improvement m consequence of that rule being enforced. There ha& been a marked reduction -m epidemic diseases, and he maintained that, m this country a cleanlmjess league was quite as inipoffant to the populatibji as a temperajice league, oiTaUß^;fijtn^]nte^ei»nce v id.leneß ; s, and vice, went al ways tpgeiher. ;