Latrines and ablution places were kept scrupulously clean.
"The Story of the "9th King's" in France"
Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts
Their neglect of any sort of ablution is a marked feature of their habits, while their intellectual capacity is placed, by people who have taken considerable trouble to inform themselves upon the subject, at as low a gauge as possible in human beings.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
A Parisian sceptic might incline to ascribe a portion of their cures to cold-bathing and ablution; but, at Andelys, no one ever thought of diminishing the veneration, inspired by the Christian queen of the founder of the monarchy.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner