Which 1846 UK Act allowed local authorities to open wash-houses, transforming Victorian working-class hygiene?
Long before the NHS, Parliament tried to tackle filth and disease among the urban poor through legislation aimed at cleanliness itself. One 19th-century Act laid the foundations for municipal laundry and bathing provision across British towns and cities.
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