BATHS TODAY
..-.. Four million houses in Britain are -■-without baths, said Mrs. Eileen Mur- • jihy, of the British Commercial Gas ■Association, speaking at the association's conference at Cardiff recently. Cleanliness, she recalled, was a modern .virtue. In the United States 100 years ■ -ago it was illegal to'take a bath un- •■• less a doctor's certificate could be pro■j riuced for such a dangerous step. -: People were scandalised, she said, when Queen Elizabeth decided to have . a bath once a month—whether she needed it or not.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 106, 6 May 1936, Page 13
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84BATHS TODAY Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 106, 6 May 1936, Page 13
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