HOW TO TAKE A BATH.

Waikato Times, Volume 110, Issue 18392, 28 July 1931, Page 5

HOW TO TAKE A BATH.

Eight rules for taking baths, to help stop the rapidly-increasing number of bathroom accidents, are presented by Warwick Holmes in a recent statement of the New Health Society, in England. , The first two rules are never to take a hot hath after a heavy meal, and never lo take a cold one if you have a weak heart. The third rule is always to keep the bathroom window open a little to prevent danger- of poisoning from carbon-monoxide gas from a defective gas heater or similar device. Fourth is to have all hot-water heaters and similar appliances equipped with safety attachments so that steam-filled pipes cannot burst. The other four rules deal with the electric fittings of the bathroom, It being agreed by safety experts that electric shocks are both common, and especially likely to be fatal when the skin is wet, or whan a bather Is in a metal bathtub electrically connected with the ground by the water-pipes. The first eletric rule is never to touch any kind of electric fitting, not even a light switch, when one is actually in the bathtub. The second is that light fixtures should be fastened tightly to walls or ceiling and enclosed as completely as possible; loose, hanging cords, flexible connections, and similar installations beng banished from the bathroom. The third is that switch knobs and other electric devices which must be touched be of insulating materials. Finally, the last rule is that no portable electric heaters, lamps, curlingirons, or other portable devices no permitted in the bathroom.