602 Of the Salubrity of Warm Bathing. 



room, in the manner just described, this will render the 

 form of the room more simple and more elegant than 

 if the passage into it were from below, through the 

 pavement. 



If the pavement of the bath be on a level, or nearly 

 on a level, with the surface of the ground, the entrance 

 into it must, nevertheless, come from a lower place. If 

 the door leading into the bath be situated at one side 

 of the room, the vaulted gallery with which it commu- 

 nicates must descend below the level of the surface of 

 the ground, and a passage must be opened from with- 

 out, in order to arrive at the door which must close 

 this gallery at its lower extremity. 



A steam-boiler should be placed under the bath, in 

 a vaulted room, and the smoke from the closed fire- 

 place of the boiler should be made to circulate in flues 

 under the pavement of the bath, near the walls of the 

 room, in which part the pavement should not be cov- 

 ered with matting. 



A bathing-tub should stand on one side of the 

 room, and opposite to it should be placed a bamboo 

 or caned sofa, covered first with a soft, thick blanket, 

 and then with a clean sheet thrown over it. 



The bathing-tub, which might be of the usual 

 dimensions, should be placed on a platform of wood, 

 covered with sheet-lead about seven or eight feet 

 square, and raised six or seven inches above the pave- 

 ment. This platform should be flat and nearly hori- 

 zontal, with a border all round it about two or three 

 inches high, and a leaden pipe at the lowest part of it 

 to carry off the water that happens to fall on it. 



The lead should be covered by thin boards, or by a 

 loose piece of matting; and a caned chair or a stool 



