Turkish Baths

THE TURKISH BATE. 25
There are in this bath three shampooing rooms an
arrangement conducing greatly to privacy. A douche
room and plunge bath are provided in the angle of
the building. Vaults under the street are utilised as a
laundry, attendants' room, meter room, and engineer's
shop, and as store-rooms.
The ladies' baths partly adjoin the gentlemen's, and
are partly separated by an area. They
are entered
from the side street. On the ground floor is the payoffice
and cooling room. Additional couches are provided
on the first floor, where is also an attendants'
room. In the basement are three hot rooms and two
shampooing rooms. A washing room, shower bath, and
plunge bath adjoin the shampooing rooms. The hottest
rooms of both sets of these baths are within a few feet
of each other. Each, however, has its separate and
distinct furnace. A passage formed by the area allows
access to the stokery and furnace chambers.
In Messrs. NevilFs baths at London Bridge the cooling
rooms, &c., are in the basement, and the bath rooms
proper in a sub-basement.
Bartholomew's baths at Leicester Square
excellent
are an
example of a compactly-arranged double set
of baths. The various apartments are designed one
above the other on different floors, the area of the
building being limited. On the ground floor, as usual,
are the pay office and a combined cooling and dressing
room, and an attendant's room. In the basement
are the bath rooms, arranged
en suite first a shampooing
and washing room, containing, also, in a very
compact manner, the plunge and shower baths ;
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