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as separate bundles with the other clothes. Having left their effects 
with the personnel, who see that they are numbered, the naked men 
proceed to 
(4) The bathroom. This is usually provided with shower-baths arranged 
in rows running across the room. Collective bath tubs or soaking vats 
are often employed before the men proceed to soap themselves, a portion 
of soft soap (ca. 1 oz.) being handed to each man. After lathering them¬ 
selves well the men seek the showers, and, being provided with a clean 
towel, dry themselves. The used towel should not be taken from the 
bathroom; it should be dropped into a receptacle, or vat containing 
insecticide solution, for lice may remain clinging to towels. 
Opening as an annex into the bathroom is a barber’s establishment, to 
which the men may have to resort before or after the bath. Whilst 
ordinary hair-cutting will usually have been performed by regimental 
barbers outside the station, hair-cutting or shaving may have at times 
to be practised at the station, especially when men are found with lice 
and their nits ( Pediculus or Phthirus) upon their heads or bodies. 
Before leaving the bathroom the men should dip their feet in tubs 
containing insecticide solution to remove any lice that may have adhered 
to them by walking on the floor upon which lice were possibly shed by 
the bathers. The men now proceed to the 
(5) Inspection room, where they are carefully examined all over in 
a good light for lice and their nits (or for that matter for scabies). If 
still infested, the men are sent back to the bathroom or barber’s shop as 
required. If found clean, they now leave the unclean side of the station 
by passing along the 
(6) Corridor leading to the dressing room. The floor of the passage 
may be covered with closely woven matting soaked with insecticide 
solution, whereby any stray lice, possibly carried on the feet, may be 
disposed of. The men now enter the 
Clean Side. 
(7) Dressing room, where they receive (a) clean underclothes, and 
(b) their numbered garments that have in the interim passed through the 
disinfestor. The clothing is handed to them over counters, and the room 
is provided with numbered cross benches like those in the undressing 
room. A 17.(7. is annexed to the dressing room. The men then pass to the 
(8) Assembly or resting room (or shed), and (9) Office where they 
receive their personal belongings (a and b, vide Step 2), such of these ( b) 
as have had to be disinfested having passed through the disinfestor and 
