LIGHT YOUR BATH FROM ABOVE.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume I, Issue 145, 25 July 1914, Page 6

LIGHT YOUR BATH FROM ABOVE.

If you want to avoid the danger of being accident-. s ally electrocuted, never take a bath in a room where /the electric lighting fixtures are installed in such a way that they can be reached when you are standing or sit- . ting in the tub. This is the advice given by scientists who have been investigating the large number of accidents from electric shock occurring in bathrooms. There is peculiar danger, it is found, from coining in contact with an electric current while taking a bath owing to the fact that when the surface of the body is moist it offers less to the current than when dry. Under such conditions currents of as low tension as 46 volts may give one a severe shock or even cause death. Those who have studied the subject strongly advise against the widespread practise of installing electric lights in side walls at such a height that they may be touched by a person standing in the tub or on the floor. - The only safe place for electric fixtures in the bathroom is close to the ceiling, : so. that they can be i ated only by turning aj perfectly insulated flush switch jost inside the Derby hats have been found to be another fruitful cause of death or serious injury by electricity. The steel "wire whi'eh forms the framework of every derby makes the best possible conductor for an electric curTent. This is why electricians and others whose work -brings them close to high-power currents are cautioned jt6ver to wear derbies.