How many baths a week should a clean citizen take?
Every- cue, male or female, should have a cold bath every morning; tat, of course, goes without saying. But it is hot water, I am bld, that removes the dirt, so let us confine ourselves to hot baths. Statistics drawn from an official return published last week are rather instructive. Worked out by averages, London, with just over two baths per week per person, comes top of the regional list. But in the country as a whole twenty per cent. of persons earning £10 a week or more take daily baths— temperature not stated, but it should be noted that all this information comes from a report on "domestic hot-water sup- ply in Great Britain." Less admirably, 46 per cent. in summer (59 per cent. in winter) take one bath weekly— and I have no doubt they look quite as clean as the every-day class. A well-known public man once observed to me that it was a mistake to wash too much; it was bad for the skin. There is something to be said for that. Exposed portions of the person attract dirt, unexposed don't. Why, then, wash the latter ?
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