Erik--
Harvey Green discusses sanitation in The Light of the Home. There he
discusses sanitation within the bourgeois home, but if you end up putting
beds into that sort of context, his book might prove useful Also--Susan
Strasser, Never Done: History of American Housework, discusses attitudes
toward housework, servants, and sanitation. Do any of the advice
books--Catherine Beecher--discuss beds???
Good Luck!!!! Sarah