Turkish Baths

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be substituted for those of a permanent type ;
but the
plan has nothing to recommend it except
cost.
lowness of
The separate lavatorium need not be so large as its
adjoining shampooing room, as here the bathers will not
recline, but sit or stand before washing-basins, to which
must be conducted the flow pipes of hot water, and
branches from the cold water supply pipe.
which may be of glazed
These basins
earthenware if solid marble
cannot be afforded should be large and capacious.
Of water-fittings I shall speak under the head of
" Appliances."
In a combined shampooing and washing room the
benches and basins will be required together. The
basins may be fixed under a hole in the marble slabs,
or affixed to the walls, as may
be convenient. Whilst
arranging the position of the benches with regard to
the room, and the basins with regard to
the benches, it
will be as well to remember the postures that the bather
assumes whilst being shampooed viz. 1st, sitting; 2nd,
on the back ; 3rd, reverse. The basin must be so placed
with respect to the slab that the shampooer may, without
altering his position, take water from the basin
with his
handbowl, and pour
it over the bather. A shampooer
cannot well work with less than 5 ft. 6 in. between his slab
and that of his adjoining fellow, when the slabs are at
right angles to the wall and the adjoining shampooer is
also working in the same space between the two benches.
Where the room is long and a row of benches are placed
at right angles to the wall, the shampooers have each
their separate space to work in. Each one can then