launderess
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Sluice Do Be The Word
At home women would "rinse" soiled diapers by dipping them up and down in the toilet, then allow them to sit in a diaper pail filled with water and usually borax.
In commercial laundries to remove heavy and or gross filth with the least exposure to workers (gotta keep those health departments happy), the stuff is bunged into a machine that uses high or low water levels to flush the gunk out of fabrics and down the drains.
Now personally wouldn't use this method in any washing machine that could not subsequently do a proper near or boil wash, or one being able to use LCB afterwards in the wash or rinse. Otherwise routine use of flushing soiled nappies can lead to a washer infested with all sort of, well you can imagine. Especially if the diapers/linens hold what we called in nursing an "explosive BM"
At home women would "rinse" soiled diapers by dipping them up and down in the toilet, then allow them to sit in a diaper pail filled with water and usually borax.
In commercial laundries to remove heavy and or gross filth with the least exposure to workers (gotta keep those health departments happy), the stuff is bunged into a machine that uses high or low water levels to flush the gunk out of fabrics and down the drains.
Now personally wouldn't use this method in any washing machine that could not subsequently do a proper near or boil wash, or one being able to use LCB afterwards in the wash or rinse. Otherwise routine use of flushing soiled nappies can lead to a washer infested with all sort of, well you can imagine. Especially if the diapers/linens hold what we called in nursing an "explosive BM"
