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Baths and washhouses. The (English) Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 231-234, enables local authorities to provide public baths, wash-houses and bathing places, and make bye-laws for these if under their management; also for swimming baths and bathing pools which are not under their management. This Act repeals the (English) Baths and Wash-houses Acts, 1846 to 1899. As to the provision of baths for the use of miners, see (English) Coal Mines Act, 1911, s. 77....
Bath
The act of exposing the body or part of the body for purposes of cleanliness comfort health etc to water vapor hot air or the like as a cold or a hot bath a medicated bath a steam bath a hip bath...
Swimming baths
Swimming baths may be provided by local authorities under the (English) Baths and Wash-houses Act, 1878 (41 & 42 Vict. c. 18), in the same manner as ordinary baths, repealed with its amending Acts and replaced by Part VIII. of the (English) Public Health Act, 1936, ss. 221 to 234. See BATHS AND WASH-HOUSES....
Sitz bath
A tub in which one bathes in a sitting posture also a bath so taken a hip bath...
Bath, Knights of the
Bath, Knights of the, a military order of knighthood, instituted by Richard II. The order was newly regulated by notifications in the London Gazette of May 25, 1847, and August 16, 1850. The Most Honourable Order of the Bath ranks fourth of the orders, and is so called from the ceremonial bathing formerly observed before reception into the order....
Bathing, sea
Bathing, sea. There is no Common Law right in the public to use the sea-shore for bathing. So held (diss. Best, J.) in Blundell v. Catterall, (1821) 5 B & Ald 268, followed by the Court of Appeal in Brinckman v. Matley, (1904) 2 Ch 313. Local authorities may make regulations as to bathing by virtue of ss. 231-234 of the Public Health Act, 1936....
Bathe
To wash by immersion as in a bath to subject to a bath...
Bathing
Act of taking a bath or baths...
Knights of the bath
Knights of the bath [milites balnei, Lat.], an order instituted by Henry IV. and revived by George I. They are so called from the ceremony formerly observed of bathing the night before their creation, Dugd. Antiq. Of Warw. 531....
bath towel
a large towel used to dry oneself after a bath...
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