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Humble Essentials

toilet paper

In these days of multi-ply plasticised 'quilted' toilet tissue, it may be hard to remember the the privations of the 1970s: while the world at large had moved on from varrnished, non-absorbent single ply to a softer - if fragile - one or two ply tissue, the hospital service was stuck with an 'Izal' equivalent, personalised for your convenience with the timeless legend:

HOSPITAL PROPERTY small square / Now Wash Your Hands Please

The prison service, I understand used a circle, and the armed forces a triangle.

bronco and Izal toilet paper packs.

Amazingly, you can still obtain Bronco and probably Izal, if you search hard enough, but I suspect that the rich would rattle their jewels in vain if they were to seek Jeyes, with its special dispenser.

Jeyes toilet paper, with dispenser.