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Specialised techniques are taught to healthcare staff to enable beds to be made efficiently with due care for the patient. [5] [6] Moving the patient out of the bed before remaking it is the preferred option. There are different bed-making techniques, such as "hospital corners" and "mitred corners".
The term "bedder" is short for "bedmaker" and is the official term for a housekeeper in a college of the University of Cambridge. [1] The equivalent at the University of Oxford is known as a "scout". [2] The equivalent at Trinity College, Dublin was known as a "skip", until the practice was abandoned in the early 1970s. [3]
Housekeeper – A housekeeper usually denotes a female senior employee. Kitchen maid – A worker who works for the cook. Lackey – A runner who may be overworked and underpaid. Lady's maid – A woman's personal attendant, helping her with her clothes, shoes, accessories, hair, and cosmetics. Lady-in-waiting - Royal Lady's maid
The Housekeeper's Instructor was a bestselling English cookery book written by William Augustus Henderson, 1791. It ran through seventeen editions by 1823. Later editions were revised by Jacob Christopher Schnebbelie. [a] The full title was "The housekeeper's instructor; or, universal family cook.
Full-page 1907 colour plate of types of fish to buy from the fishmonger: red mullet, grayling, John Dory, mackerel, cod, whiting, salmon, herring, plaice, flounder, gurnet, crayfish The preface sets out the book's goal of providing "men" with such well-cooked food at home that it may compete with what they could eat "at their clubs, well ...
A housekeeper at a resort on the Las Vegas Strip stole more than $100,000 worth of cash and valuables from guests’ rooms and was arrested while wearing a missing bracelet, according to police ...
In the great houses of the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the housekeeper could be a woman of considerable power in the domestic arena. [citation needed] The housekeeper of times past had her room (or rooms) cleaned by junior staff, her meals prepared and laundry taken care of, and with the butler presided over dinner in the Servants' Hall.
The "Good Wife's Guide" is a magazine article rumored to have been published in the May 13, 1955 issue of Housekeeping Monthly, describing how a good wife should act, containing material that reflects a very different role assignment from contemporary American society.