Hospital Housekeeping by Charlotte A. Aikens

[Sidenote: The Hospital Laundry]

Perhaps no part of the hospital housekeeper's domain will call for a greater expenditure of her energy and patience than the laundry. Though out of sight, its results are always in evidence, and failure in the laundry means that every part of the work of the establishment is handicapped. There may be abundance of linen to meet the needs of the hospital, and yet if constant supervision over the work of the laundry is not exercised, three-fourths of the linen supply may at times be found piled in the laundry, the linen room shelves empty, and the nurses flying hither and thither on borrowing expeditions when a clean towel is called for.