Turkish Baths

18 THE TURKISH BATH:
in the basement.
Where possible, the hot rooms should
be pushed out beyond the back wall of the houses,
and lighted from the top. In cities, the hot rooms will
often have to be in the actual basement. Where space
to baths if
is valuable a whole house may be given up
the floors be made fire and heat proof. The basement
may
be devoted to hot rooms and shampooing rooms,
the ground floor to offices and ^dressing rooms, and
the first floor to cooling rooms, ladies' baths, again,
can be arranged on the floors above, and both ^baths.
can be heated from one apparatus. In a bath .where
three floors are available, the first floor may be devoted
to extra cooling and dressing rooms. In inexpensive
sites the bath may be all on one level. This is the
most convenient arrangement, but in large
cities is
generally too costly.
The Hammam and Savoy baths,
in London, are, however, all on one level, the former
being practically all above ground,
and the latter con-
structed in the basement of an
k
existing building.
-_ The London Hammam was the first public Turkish
bath erected in this country, and owes its existence to
the fervid zeal of the late David Urquhart. It was
erected in i862 >
from the designs of the late Somers
Clarke. The bath rooms proper are modelled on the
Eastern plan, and have quite an Oriental effect, with the
stars of stained glass sparkling in the sombre domed
tepidarium. In this bath the office is
arranged in the
old building in Jermyn Street, adjoining which is the
combined frigidarium and apodyterium, a structure of
wood, originally intended as a temporary building only.
This is covered with an open-timbered roof, and divided