WORKERS' HOMES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 22 June 1923, Page 5

WORKERS' HOMES.

♦-■ 13 A BATH NECGESSjKRT? »V CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT LONDON.,,J-uh© 20. A. conference of the Royal Sanitary Institute discussed ±he Question of "t)atks in workicg-men's Jictmes. Colonel Fremantle, M.P., contrasted i th& cleanliness of the Japanese with 4he so-called sweat smell of Western "-^•rorfc people, and attributed the superiority of the Japanese peasants to a - pillar filled "with very \hofc "•rater,-which, was in every home. He *aid a vertical bath Had &. tonic effect And was very cleansing. It required much less hot water and therefore was «w>re economical than the Western type. Dr. Watts said there was a belief prevalent among; Lancashire -miners that if they had a bath it was not wise to w^sh the back. There was a j Aep-rootcd impression that washing •weakeneil the back. Professor Coilis incidentally referred -to the "English climate, and said "English, people complain that our weather *s often rotten, yet weather made Brittms what tlvey are. If we had the sreatlier we prayed for we would be de. -generates and a third-class Power.*'