* * * Pit-head Baths The Member for West Fife
did himself great credit by the private member's motion with which he initiated a debate in the House of Commons last week on the question of pit-head baths for miners. Mr. Gallacher described the dangers to health involved in miners travelling home from the pit in their working clothes and the impossibility of keeping the home clean under these conditions ; in fact, by now this description is hardly necessary. for, es was said in theleourse of the debate, "the battle of the pit-head baths, has been won." What is questionable is whether they are being provided fast enough. Captain Crookshank, Secretary for Mines, was able to promise that in the next two years building would be speeded up as much as possible and expenditure increased to £600,000 annually ; the total number of baths will thus be brought up to 336, With accommodation for 445.000 persons.
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