Of the Salubrity of Warm Bathing. 607 



If there should be no natural elevation of ground at 

 hand on which this bath can conveniently be situated, 

 a mound of earth must be raised for that purpose ; 

 otherwise, it will be necessary that the porch at the 

 end of the gallery should be situated 7 or 8 feet below 

 the surface of the ground, for it is indispensably neces- 

 sary that the entrance into the bath should be by an 

 ascent, and in a covered gallery* 



The building may be covered with a thick, thatched 

 roof, which will on some accounts be better than any 

 other; but any other kind of roof will answer very well, 

 provided it be tight, and that a quantity of straw or of 

 chaff or of dry leaves be laid over the ceiling of the 

 two small rooms, under the roof, to confine the heat. 

 The ceiling of the rooms should be lathed and plas- 

 tered, and the walls of the room should be plastered 

 and whitewashed. 



At the end of one of the rooms, opposite to the door, 

 a bathing-tub should be placed; and in the other, a 

 caned sofa. 



The bathing-tub should be placed on a platform 

 7 feet square, covered with sheet-lead, and raised about 

 nine inches above the level of the pavement. This 

 platform should have a rim all round it, and a pipe for 

 carrying off out of the room the water that accidentally 

 falls on it. 



The bathing-tub should be supplied with cold water 

 from a reservoir (a common cask will answer perfectly 

 well for that use), which should stand without the 

 house. 



* If the entrance into the houses of poor cottagers were constructed on the 

 same principles, this simple contrivance would save them more than half their 

 expenses for fuel in cold weather. 



