Turkish Baths

120 THE TURKISH BATH:
opposite the stove. Fig.
22 (A) shows the simplest form
of a bath room possible ; it is that which Mr. Urquhart
constructed, and has described in his ' Manual of the
Turkish Bath.' It was erected by
him to show how
cheaply an effective bath room might be built, the
whole arrangement, with water fittings
and building of
three of its walls, only costing 3//.
The room or rooms forming the Turkish bath in a
private house should be cut off by a lobby
from the
other apartments of the house, with carefully-fitting
self-closing doors at either end ;
and in the case of an
elaborate bath, another little lobby with double doors
and heavy curtains, should be placed between the
cooling room and the two bathing rooms, as at Fig. 24.
The air of the hot rooms should, of course, be perfectly
and absolutely cut off from that of the house..
The position of the bath in a house will
depend upon
the size of the bath and the house and its situation.
In town houses, where the bath consists of only a washing
and a hot room, the first floor will be the most convenient.
Where a cooling room is provided, the ground
floor is as handy as anywhere and this ; position allows of
the easier construction of the heating apparatus.
In the
country, the bath is best built away from the house,
connected by a short lobby, which may be utilised for
boots, &c., as at Fig. 24. The main difficulties to be
overcome are the heating of the
bath, and the non-conduction
of heat to places where it is not wanted.
The heating apparatus of a private bath may be, for
the simplest, a common laundry stove, as at Fig. 22 (A)
and at Fig. 23 ; for bigger baths, a small convoluted