{"id":47359,"date":"2024-03-13T08:07:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T06:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/tygerburger\/recalling-good-old-days-20240312-2\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T00:10:26","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T22:10:26","slug":"recalling-good-old-days-20240312-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novanews.co.za\/tygerburger\/recalling-good-old-days-20240312-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Recalling good old days at Tygerberg Hospital&#8217;s Central Laundry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The recent newspaper article about the revitalised Central Laundry at Tygerberg Hospital in Parow, had one reader and former employee at the laundry reminiscing about the olden days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>TygerBurger<\/em> reported on the revitalised Central Laundry and its Water Treatment Plant on Wednesday last week (\u201cWassery opgeknap\u201d, 6\/2). The facility is located on the grounds of the hospital and was paid an inspection by Prof Nomafrench Mbombo, the provincial minister of health and wellness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFew people know the actual facts,\u201d Michael \u201cMickey\u201d Finn, the reader, said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-history-of-the-laundry\">History of the laundry<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Finn is the former Deputy Director at the Cape Provincial Hospital Department: Laundry Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cTygerberg Laundry in fact started operating in 1967, as the workshops, laundry and boiler house were functional by that date, before the hospital was built and commissioned in 1970.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt that stage the Central Laundry was servicing Karl Bremer Hospital, Paarl Provincial Hospital, Stellenbosch Provincial Hospital and Hottentots Hospital in Somerset West,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Principal Laundry Manager in charge was John Simpson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOne amusing incident that happened was when the new washer extractors were started up for the first time and normal washing powder was used, the machine started spewing soap suds all over the washhouse floor. Luckily, Mr Simpson, who was a very knowledgeable gentleman, instructed the staff to mix a solution of oxalic acid and water and use it to suppress the suds which were a few feet deep at that stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe firm Hudson and Knight were approached, and they made inquiries to their principals in the United Kingdom and a new detergent was formulated and marketed in South Africa as LSD AQ (low sudsing detergent),\u201d Finn recalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the visit to Central Laundry, <em>TygerBurger<\/em> interviewed one of the long-service employees, Freek Lot, who was also the project manager during the upgrade. 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