[Margaret Pilkington]

In the days of Florence (Nightingale) most of the cleaning was done by nurses...in fact when I first started nursing, the more junior you were, the more cleaning tasks you did.
There was never a time when you had nothing to do......Sister would send you to the sluice with a tin of chemico to shine the stainless steel bedpans, or tidy the linen cupboard, or wash down all the bed tables(which were cleaned after the discharge of every patient anyway).