in private houses, 123, 124
Eastern, 110
elaborate private, 129, 132, 133
importance of double sets of, 137
importance of intercommunication between various, 137
in crowded sites, 18
nature of private, 119
objections to extemporised hot air, 118
Old Roman, 110
on one level, 18
private, 118
public and commercial, 6
public, lack of, in England, 7
supply of water for private, 128
two classes of, 26
ventilation of private, 122
Bath-rooms arranged _en suite_, advantage of, 37
drainage of, 44
_Balneae_, the Pompeian, 112
ancient, 4
Benches, felting for marble, 116
Bignor, Roman, bath at, 112
Boilers, 87
Boot-room, fittings for, 116
Box, Roman bath at, 112
C.
Calidarium, the, 4, 33
floor of, 116
Ceilings of enamelled iron, 106
Checks, shelves for, 116
Cisterns, 87, 88
Cleansing process, ways of concluding, 12
Cold plunge, object of, 12
Combined cooling and dressing room, its arrangement, 54
Cooling and dressing rooms combined, their merits and demerits, 54
Cooling room, carpets for, 114
couches in, 114
furniture of, 113
importance of ventilating, 57
method, 57
lighting of, 103
the separate, 53
Cooling rooms in hydropathic establishments, 138
fireplaces in, 23
methods of arranging, 52
temperature of, 53, 58
D.
Divans, construction of, 114
Douche, horizontal, 95
room, the, 45
spinal, 93
Drainage, importance of perfect, 44
Dressing and cooling rooms, 13
Dry atmosphere, necessity for, in bath, 4
F.
Firing, evil of bad and forced, 80
Floorings for cheap baths, 34
Flues, hot and cold air, construction of, 40
Foul air conduits, 71
Frigidarium, design of, 108
divans in, 109
fountain in, 101
of private baths, 129
the, 4, 13
the old Roman, 57
Furnace, advantage of a fireclay, 75
fireclay, for private bath, 132
method of constructing, 74
expansion and contraction of, 76
Furnaces for private baths, 121
heating power of, 80
with iron flues, 72
Furnace chamber, position of, 40
G.
Gas, objections to, in bath, 102
Glazed earthenware, its suitability for baths, 33
Good and bad baths, difference between, 82
Good bath, what it is, and how gained, 9
H.
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