Turkish Baths

ITS DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION. 123
baths, from those formed by converting existing
into bath rooms, to
rooms
an elaborate and complete design.
Fig. 22 (A) is a plan of Mr. Urquhart's cheap private
bath, an apartment only measuring n ft.
by -16 ft,
yet forming an effective sudatory chamber, with simple
iron stove, couch, seat, and sunk tank or lavatrina. On
this principle I have arranged the plans of the baths
adapted to existing rooms in a house, shown at Fig. 23.
One plan shows a hot room built on to an existing
ordinary bath room. A doorway
is formed in the old
external wall, and the new chamber constructed with
hollow walls, with glazed bricks internally. An extra
room would, of course, be thus formed on the floor
below. A fireproof floor would be provided, and the
pipes from iron stove conducted to old fireplace in
bath room, which would become the lavatorium, and
undressing room if necessary. A double-doored lobby
is formed in the latter apartment, and the slipper bath
used as ordinarily.
It will be seen that by appropriating
the adjoining bed room, a frigidarium is obtained, by
taking away the flue-pipe to a new chimney, and
knocking a doorway through the old partition wall, thus
making a complete set of bath rooms.
The other plan, given at Fig. 23, shows an existing
room divided into a combined hot room and washing
room, and a cooling room. Three of the walls being
ordinary external walls, the hot room is lined
with lath and plaster on quartering, leaving an airspace
between to prevent loss of heat by absorption
and radiation. One or two of the spaces between the
quarters should be formed into lath and plaster flues,