PORTABLE ARMY BATHS.
The French War Depart merit has .just completed the first of ;i series of fifty portable bathing establishments which arc about to be used in tin* French tinny. Each comprise throe compart.ni'erits, "separated by double partitions. The soldier leaves his uniform and underwear in tho first compartment, has a warm shower bath in tho second, and in the third is given now underwear and fecives his Uniform, which, in tho meantime,.; ha,s been disinfected by steam heat. The whole apparatus-is carried on two automobile trucks. Each establishment is able to provide for about eight hundred men a- day.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1012, 14 November 1917, Page 6
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101PORTABLE ARMY BATHS. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 1012, 14 November 1917, Page 6
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