Turkish Baths

ITS DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION. 137
Mr. Charles Bartholomew, is in direct communication with
the other baths, allowing the bather to pass from the hot
rooms, or shampooing room, to medicated or pine
or vice versd. In designing the plan
bath,
of baths of the
type of those at the Mont Dore, this intercommunication
between the various baths is the point to be most carefully
studied.
Direct communication is required between
the Turkish, and the Russian, bath, inhalation hall, and
medicated baths, as some methods of treatment render
this an absolute necessity.
In a small establishment the hydropathic appliances
are movable, and used in ordinary bath rooms, the
Turkish bath being the only feature requiring special
design.
A true hydropathic establishment of any size
should
be provided with two Turkish baths, one for ladies and
one for gentlemen, as the power and efficiency of the
treatment may depend upon the regularity and persistency
with which it is carried out. Where there is only
one bath, it has to be set apart on different days for the
use of ladies and gentlemen, and it is evident that the
benefit of a course of baths may be greatly lessened
by the occasional unreadiness of the bath. Two suites of
rooms should, therefore, be provided. It may be that
they will be most economically constructed and worked
if
arranged side by side, so that they may have their
furnaces together, and be stoked with economy.
Where, as in country establishments, there is plenty
of room, it is often convenient to arrange the Turkish
and other baths on the ground floor adjoining the main
building, a corridor of connection being placed, if neces-