Introduction to the Washing Conditions of Indian Public Textiles
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2011-05-05 16:02
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India is the second largest developing country, with rapid economic development, especially remarkable achievements in industries such as IT. However, in the laundry industry and the hygiene of textiles used in public places, the standards still remain at the level of over 100 years ago.
In the large city of Mumbai, there is a very primitive open-air "Dhobi Ghat" built during the British colonial period, with more than 800 water pools, capable of accommodating a thousand people washing clothes simultaneously. It still preserves the traditional customs of manual washing and open-air drying of clothes.
Hundreds of people are gathered around rectangular washing troughs made of cement, washing all kinds of colorful clothes, quilts, and bed sheets.
In the water, whose color is already unrecognizable, some people are vigorously beating with sticks, while more people are "patting, patting" clothes with their hands by pounding, rubbing, and slapping. The scattered splashes accompany the loud sounds of the clothes. The washed clothes are either hung on rows of ropes, like fluttering sails, or simply spread out on rooftops to dry.
From high-end five-star hotel bed sheets, quilts, pillowcases, tablecloths, napkins, towels, bath towels, pajamas, to hospital bedding, work clothes, surgical drapes, operating towels, various sized cloth bags, blood-stained gauze, and so on, all textiles used in public places are washed here. Since washing machines are still an unnecessary luxury for most families, and the "Dhobi Ghat" charges very low fees, not only the wealthy but also the poor send their clothes here for washing.
This is a place swarming with mosquitoes and flies, hiding rats and bedbugs, and also a place for the spread of bacteria and diseases. There is no question of sterilization and disinfection, no separation of medical textiles and hotel textiles during washing, let alone control of pH values or whether human debris is present. It seems that in economically backward developing countries including India, not to mention public textiles, even basic public health safety still has a long way to go.
(Author: Wei Changsheng, Nanjing Changxing Textile Washing and Leasing Co., Ltd.)
(Photo provided by: Shinichi Ito, Tokyo Aviation Cleaning Co., Ltd., Japan)
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