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Title: Buffalo medical journal
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Subjects: Medicine
Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
Digitizing Sponsor: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia and the National Endowment for the Humanities

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ronise it cleansed both in person and clothing. This is at variance with the customs that prevail at the Europeanmunicipal bath houses, where, in every instance, for equal bathingfacilities, a fee is demanded. This is the case in Glasgow, Man-chester, London, Birmingham; in fact, in all British towns wherepublic baths have been erected. It is, likewise, true of Paris, Berlin,Vienna, Munich, Hanover, Gottingen, Frankfort, and in all othercities of France, Germany and Austria. WENDE : THE FIRST FREE MUNICIPAL BATH HOUSE. -813 To illustrate, in Glasgow, where the public baths have cost morethan $600,000 and the bathers exceed 450,000 a year, a charge oftwo-pence is made for the use of the swimming bath, and a triflemore for private baths, with special rates for school children. InFrankfort, for instance, the price per bath is 2^ cents, including toweland soap, but the quantity of water allowed is measured and limitedto 42 quarts. It seems that in our American cities, too, it has been the
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BUFFALO FREE PUBLIC BATH HOUSE NO. I. accredited rule to charge for these necessary innovations that improvethe health and social condition of the people. For example, at thepublic baths in New York City, a fee of 5 cents is asked for theiruse. However, tickets are granted on the most favorable terms toinstitutions, societies, churches and donors to the associationsfund, so that the advantages of the bath may be wide-spread andextended. Therefore, to Buffalo belongs the distinction of being the firstmunicipality to grant to the poor, the needy and the working classes,unconditional and without charge, bathing facilities p)o bono publico. Si4 . WEXDE : the first free municipal bath house. It is hardly necessary to say that in the selection of the site,density of population, overcrowded tenements of the poor, and cheaplodging houses, where the transient and shifting find accommodation,were regarded as the important desiderata. It is located in PolicePrecinct No. i, which has an area of o

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