U.S. Visitors Criticise British Hygiene
(N.Z. Press (Rec. 10 p.m.) LONDON, October 4. The manners of British people are fine, but their ideas on hygiene are appalling, according to a great number of the 143.000 American tourists who wrote to the British Travel and Holiday Association giving their impressions of their visit to Britain this year. The American visitors criticised meat and fish sold in open shops; soiled tablecloths in cafes; the scarcity of table napkins and “frightful” coffee. They suggested something should be done to see there was always ieed water in cafes; that cats were banished from food shop windows: and that there were more entertainments on Sundays. Men sought a place to plug in electric razors in bedrooms and bathrooms, and. cigars sold in “properly humidified” cases.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27472, 5 October 1954, Page 14
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