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Title: Buffalo medical journal
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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rsons an hour. Besides, there is a large open space for children,provided with six showers, and in which as many as twenty boys havebeen domiciled at one time. The lot upon which the bath house is located is triangular inshape, having a frontage on the Terrace of fifty feet. The buildingis of brick exterior, as shown in photograph No. i, and was designedby Lansing & Beierl. It is two stories high in front, with living^apartments for attendants in the upper one, and one story in rear withbasement under all. A reference to the ground plan will show thatthe interior arrangement of the building consists of a waiting room,wash-room, toilet-room, infants bath-room, and fourteen distinctbathing apartments, all on the first floor, while, on the second arefound the quarters of the attendants, possessing advantages on thescore of economy, safety, privacy and convenience. The wash-room contains three laundry tubs of concrete, and apatent drying closet which, on economical grounds, affords an
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GROUND PLAN OF BUFFALO FREE PUBLIC BATH HOUSE NO. I. 8l6 WENDE : THE FIRST FREE MUNICIPAL BATH HOUSE. opportunity of overcoming difficulties when the bather has but one suitof undergarments which have become soiled—a God-send to onepossessing such a meagre wardrobe. The infants bath-room has aporcelain bath-tub and is for children too young to go under theshowers. One must rejoice to think that the Httle child of the tena-ment house district may enjoy such a luxury. In the bathing apart-ments, the walls are of brick, coated with enamel paint, the floors ofconcrete, and the partitions of slate in iron frames, all out of con-sideration that sanitation by water may go wrong in proportion to thedefects in construction of absorbent or nonabsorbent material. The system adopted is that of the rain-bath and inclined showerdelivering water at a maximum temperature of loo degrees, under thecontrol of the bather as regards volume and decrease of tempera-ture. This has fourteen individual alcov

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