Disinfection facility
Disinfection facilities emerged at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, mainly to disinfect the clothes, mattresses or bed linen of the sick .
background
In the 1840s, the Viennese doctor Ignaz Semmelweis first came across the importance of hygiene in the medical field. In the period after that there was a general awareness of hygiene. In 1865 the first chair for hygiene in Germany was established, the first holder was Max von Pettenkofer .
Hygiene was recognized as an effective measure to prevent or contain diseases such as typhus , cholera , smallpox , dysentery or diphtheria .
construction
Disinfection institutions served various purposes. In addition to the disinfection of all kinds of laundry, there were disinfection institutions in which medical cutlery was disinfected, and butchering tools and means of transport were disinfected in institutions at slaughterhouses. In addition to disinfection, tests for communicable diseases were also carried out later.
A typical institution operated one or more steam boilers that could be opened on either side. There was a dirty and a clean side. In any case, it had to be avoided to let germs get from the contaminated side to the clean side. In order to guarantee this, the disinfector developed its own profession .
Examples of disinfection institutions
- Disinfection facility Berlin-Kreuzberg , Reichenberger Strasse 66
- Disinfection Institute Berlin-Schöneberg, Kärntener Str. 20/21
- Disinfection facility Berlin-Charlottenburg, Mollwitzstrasse 2
- Arrenberg, disinfection facility in the Ferdinand Sauerbruch Clinic
- Disinfection facility at the Hamburg-Eppendorf hospital
- Disinfection facility in Nuremberg, Brückenstrasse 23
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Desi Nuremberg | Under this roof. Retrieved on March 22, 2019 (German).