Public baths and wash-houses / by Robert Owen Allsop ; illustrated with plans and sections.

  • Robert Owen Allsop
Date:
1894
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Credit: Public baths and wash-houses / by Robert Owen Allsop ; illustrated with plans and sections. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. In publishing a work dealing in a systematic manner with the many problems pertaining to the design, con- struction and equipment of public baths and wash-houses, the object of the author has been not only to afford information of practical value to the architectural pro- fession, but to endeavour to suggest such future improve- ments and modifications in existing arrangements as may command the attention of Baths Commissioners, and others actively interested in the promotion of clean- liness among the masses. It is hoped that the publi- cation of matter relating to baths and wash-houses may, in however small a way, promote the building of more bathing establishments. The public baths movement has abundant and vigorous life, and is gathering strength year by year; but further ventilation of the subject, in such measure as may be possible by means of a small technical treatise, may prove a wholesome stimulus to the enterprise of such authorities as have the initiation and inauguration of bath-building schemes. Much has been accomplished since the passing of the Baths and Wash-houses Act. Much-very much-remains to be done. The present work, like its predecessors, originally
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