In message <[log in to unmask]>, Mark Purcell
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>So far, all of the descriptions of 'hygienic' libraries
>have fitted into the same sort of model: middle class
>librarians in public libraries worrying that
>infectious disease might be spread by books contaminated by
>the working classes. It does look very much like a
>class-based thing.
The fear of TB was universal. Even rich people got it!
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Sylva Simsova
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