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A small chamber entered by doors from the lobby to the tepidarium, and also from the tepidarium itself, would be convenient. At times it may be placed in a nook off the shampooing room.
The needle bath is best left exposed, but it may be enclosed in a metal shield if desired. This bath may be placed in one of three positions in the shampooing room, in a separate chamber, in the plunge bath chamber. It is most conveniently placed where the bather passes it en route from the washing room to the plunge.
The consequence is that, in passing backwards and forwards to and from the different bath rooms, the delicate invalid contracts a serious chill. These baths include a Turkish bath, with three hot rooms, a shampooing room, and cooling room, connected by an anteroom with the suite of miscellaneous bath rooms of the gentlemen's department.
All the air appears to be travelling along the top of the bath, and the bather reclining on the marble-topped benches would seem to be bathed in air that has passed along the top of the bath, round the shampooing rooms, and back along the floor. This circulation of air will exist in any bath heated on the modern system that is to say, where freshly-heated air is passed in in sufficient quantity.
The steam boilers, which supply the steam to the vapour baths and pine-vapour baths, and the water super heaters, as well as the hotel lift and pumping machinery, are arranged in a basement under the stairs, anteroom, tepidarium, and shampooing room. It will be seen that the compact little Turkish bath, which was arranged under the direction of the late Mr.
The separate lavatorium need not be so large as its adjoining shampooing room, as here the bathers will not recline, but sit or stand before washing-basins, to which must be conducted the flow pipes of hot water, and branches from the cold water supply pipe. These basins which may be of glazed earthenware if solid marble cannot be afforded should be large and capacious.
The internal diameter the measurement given in all the figures of these branch pipes to taps over shampooing basins should be 3/4 in. Cocks and valves for the purposes of the Turkish bath are best of the "gland" pattern. They should have bold handles. Those of the screw-down type are useless, except as stop-cocks.
The shampooing just referred to, and previously mentioned as forming one process in the Russian bath, is another means of relief constantly in use while the patient is going through his terrible struggle. Our attendants upon Lord's Island are picked men.
A shampooing slab which must be of marble is therefore not a necessary provision in any but very elaborate private baths. A complete private bath must contain the piscina, or plunge.
Some experienced women say that no girl should begin work of this description younger than twenty. She should apply for a position as a helper in a shampooing and manicuring establishment or with a chiropodist. Sometimes the pupil is expected to pay a fee of twenty-five dollars or more for three months' instruction.
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