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In message <[log in to unmask]>, Mark Purcell <[log in to unmask]> writes >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! -- Sylva Simsova %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%