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| Post# 148553 8/15/2006 at 11:53 (6,463 days old) by sudsman () | ||
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will post a few every few days when you get tired just let me know and I will stop Mac 
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| Post# 148562 , Reply# 1 8/15/2006 at 12:42 (6,463 days old) by jasonl (Cookeville, TN) | ||
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Could you imagine all those sheets/towels/gowns/whatever with every disease known to man splattered with every kind of bodily fluid? Eww.. | ||
Post# 148565 , Reply# 2 8/15/2006 at 12:46 (6,463 days old) by gyrafoam  (Wytheville, VA) |
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Oh yeah, highly germicidal cleaning is in order! Although the "cooties" back then weren't as powerful as the ones today. | ||
| Post# 148568 , Reply# 3 8/15/2006 at 12:50 (6,463 days old) by peterh770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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Post# 148570 , Reply# 4 8/15/2006 at 12:52 (6,463 days old) by gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA) |
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You need to stop. | ||
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Post# 148574 , Reply# 5 8/15/2006 at 13:12 (6,463 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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| Post# 148578 , Reply# 6 8/15/2006 at 14:38 (6,463 days old) by peterh770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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| Post# 148586 , Reply# 7 8/15/2006 at 15:28 (6,463 days old) by jasonl (Cookeville, TN) | ||
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Macho macho man he wants to be a macho man | ||
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Post# 148591 , Reply# 8 8/15/2006 at 15:43 (6,463 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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| Post# 148598 , Reply# 9 8/15/2006 at 16:16 (6,463 days old) by brettsomers () | ||
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you have Good Taste, Toggle... | ||
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Post# 148607 , Reply# 10 8/15/2006 at 17:08 (6,463 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 148620 , Reply# 11 8/15/2006 at 18:46 (6,462 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Hosptial laundries then would have used "boil" washes or massive amounts of LCB to meet disefection requirments. Further sanitation would come from the heat/pressure of the ironers. Items destined for the OR or sterile use would be autoclaved and wrapped to stay "sterile". Today many hospital laundries (what there is left of them), and commerical laundries that process infected laundry, use a two door varations of the above washer. One door is on the "soiled" side of the laundry, the other on the "clean". Dirty laundry is placed in on one side, and when clean taken out on the other. This way clean laundry risks less chance of being contaminated by contact with "dirty" laundry or anything that came into contact (including the workers). It is worth noting that by federal and local codes laundry infected by serious stuff (such as items coming from isolation units and or that containing large amounts of bodily fluids), are placed into plastic bags and marked. Such laundry is handled differently than other items. Laundress Kind of reminds one of the laundry in Shawshank Redemption. Laundress | ||
| Post# 148647 , Reply# 13 8/15/2006 at 21:29 (6,462 days old) by knitwits1975 () | ||
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Thanks for the pics. I'm very impressed by the size of these machines. How do they work? Are they still used or do hospitals use a different type of machine now? | ||
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Post# 148648 , Reply# 14 8/15/2006 at 21:29 (6,462 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 148670 , Reply# 16 8/16/2006 at 02:20 (6,462 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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First, one can see what seems to be a sleeve hanging from the laundry basket, this means to me the laundry consists of garments (doctor's white jacket's, nurse's uniforms,etc; the sleeve does not seem to be from any sort of isolation gown I ever saw). Next, by federal and local laws, laundry contaminated by bodily fluids (operating room, isolation rooms/infectious wards/rooms etc) are separated on the floors by being put in to special clearly marked bags. Such laundry is handled differently from say bedding, towels, and laundry not grossly contaminated. As for "cooties", well this does seem modern, but hospitals existed long before modern antibiotics, and laundry workers could easily be infected by any number of germs that we deal with easily today. Staf, Strep, Flu, Ecoli, etc were common infections that killed many people before WWII and "miracle" drugs came on the scene. The washer pictured seems like a cynlinder type washer, which can run upwards of over 500lbs capacity. Air conditioning? Not very likely, laundries generate too much heat for that. Fans probably, but much has gone into commercial laundry design for today's plants, the the object is to keep all that heat within the washers/dryers/ironers, and not released into the area. It is worth noting many hospitals, like hotels and other places which all used to have their own in house laundries, use laundry services and have closed down their plants. It just made sense, as hospitals were not in "the laundry" business, to have the expenses associated with a large laundry. Other hospitals that are members of the same care association, have one laundry for several hospitals, to spread costs around. The biggest "news" in hosptial laundries are tunnel washers, where soiled laundry goes in one end, and clean laundry comes out the other. Combining washing with extracting means less heavy lifting for workers (which is rapidly being replaced by machines),and one less step. L. | ||
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Post# 148685 , Reply# 19 8/16/2006 at 06:36 (6,462 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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Post# 148687 , Reply# 20 8/16/2006 at 06:54 (6,462 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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| Post# 148702 , Reply# 21 8/16/2006 at 08:47 (6,462 days old) by sudsman () | ||
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Tunnel Washers Go to Milnors Website or to Washex or Braun They are all selling tunnel washers now. | ||
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Post# 148705 , Reply# 22 8/16/2006 at 09:15 (6,462 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK) |
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