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which there is a glass door into the conservatory (c) ; and d is the bath-room, 

 between which and the conservat.ory there is a passage connecting it with 

 the boiler-room {e). The entrance porch of the dwelling-house is shown at 

 /. The boiler is placed in the room e, on a level with the bath as it stands 

 in the bath-room; and the bath is heated by a coil of pipes at one end. The 

 water of the bath might have been heated in a simpler and less expensive 

 manner by causing it to circulate directly through the boiler ; but, as the 

 water in a boiler which is in constant use for heating a conservatory, or other 

 building or apartment, generally contains a good deal of sediment, it is not 

 fit for using as a hath. 



417. The size of the bath-room need not be large, because it is not under- 

 stood to contain a swimming-batli, but only one for immersion. For this 

 pm-pose, as the bath need not be larger than 8 ft. in length and 3 ft. in 

 breadth, a room 8 ft. by 10 ft. in the clear might suffice, the bath being 

 along the narrowest end, the fire-place on one side, a window on that oppo- 

 site, and a door on the side opposite the bath. A room 10 ft. or 12 ft. square, 

 however, will be more convenient; and if it is to contain a vapour-bath and 

 a shower-bath, as well as a common water-bath, it should be somewhat 

 larger. The height of the room, if it is to contain a shower-bath, should not 

 be less than 10 ft.; but, for a common bath or vapour-bath, 7 ft. or 8 ft. will 

 be sufficient ; and in this case the bath-room may be iplaced as a mezzanine, 

 or half-floor room, like the entresol of the French. Adjoining the bath-room, 

 and as an anteroom to it, there should be a dressing-room with a fire-place, 

 and this fire-place may be so arranged as to heat the water in the bath-room. 

 There should be a bell in the dressing-room, communicating with a bell-pull, 

 suspended from the wall on one side of the bath, near the head; it may also 

 be convenient to have a bell appropriate to the bath-room hung along with 

 the other house bells, because it sometimes happens that invalids are seized 

 with cramp while in the bath, and find it necessary to ring for assistance. 



418. The bath, or vessel for containing the water, is generall}' half or a 

 quarter sunk in the floor ; or, if the floor does not admit of this, there is a step 

 raised to half the height of the bath in front, in order to facilitate getting in 

 and out. The dimensions of the bath are from 6 ft. to 8 ft. in length, from 

 1 ft. 8 in. to 3 ft. in breadth, and from 1 ft. 6 in. to 2 ft. 6 in. in depth. It 

 is commonly formed of inch boards, lined with copper or sheet-lead, and 

 painted in imitation of white marble ; but sometimes, when the bath is on the 

 ground-floor, the sides are formed of brickwork, and lined with glazed tiles. 

 Sometimes, also, they are formed of polished stone or marble, or slabs of 



