PUBLIC BATHS FOR VILLAGES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—Can you, or any of your readers, throw light on the
subject of public baths for a village ? There may be someone whose house being, like ours, full of bathrooms, has thought that an opportunity of comfortable cleanliness would be appre- ciated by his poorer neighbours, and who has been able to provide a bath-house for them.
This is a Cotswold village of about 800 inhabitants. We aspire to a stone bath-house with, as a start, two baths, and two large raised basins for washing babies in. Towels could be dried on rails round the boiler. A worthy man and his wife living near the proposed site would be in charge, see that peace and propriety were preserved, and collect the pennies. Possibly a club subscription or season tickets could be arranged. We shall be very glad of suggestions from anyone who has put this idea into practice or who knows of a public village bath which senres its purpose.—I am, Sir, &c., SAPONIA SMITH.
[We welcome this letter. We have often thought that one of the greatest needs of our villages is better facilities for taking baths. Why should the taking of baths comfortably be largely the prerogative of the well-to-do ?—En. Spectator.]
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