Kitty Wilkinson
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Kitty Wilkinson
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Catherine ("Kitty") Wilkinson was an Irish migrant and "wife of a labourer", who became known as the 'Saint of the Slums' due to her pioneering the public wash house movement. In 1832, during a cholera epidemic, she had the only boiler in her neighbourhood, so she invited those with infected clothes or linens to use it, thus saving many lives. This was the first public washhouse in Liverpool. Ten years later with public funds her efforts resulted in the opening of a combined washhouse and public
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitty_Wilkinson
date created:
2011-01-13T10:38:32Z
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2024-09-06T04:51:41Z
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