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BATHING URGED AS A HEALTH MEASURE PUBLIC BATHS FREE OF EXPENSE URGED FOR THE POOR — ROME HAD 800 BATHS OPENED TO POOR ONE DAY EACH WEEK FOR ONE HALF CENT --ARCADE BATHS COMMENDED DURING SUMMER HEAT AT NEW ORLEANS 1836
N. 0. Commercial Bulletin - June 27, 1836 - p 2 col 2
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The Arc^ade Baths, which have teen accessible the whole season, are peculiarly inviting during the present period of extreme heat.
It would seem in truth a species of ingratitude to withhold the just tribute of praise from an individual who has furnished us with a luxury, unsurpassed by any other that could be introduced in our city.
exhausted, after which the water conveyed from the Mississippi was necessarily turbid and untempting, a like objection to bathe on a similar principle and furnished from the same source, at first view seemed to arise, but the experiment completely sets it aside.
Water Pure
The abundant supplies of^w.ater from the reservoir furnishing the Aacad^^a,tii,^,p£si^3^aTdwell"is allowed first to settle, and in this state flows to our use pure and refreshing. Being thus clarified it is preferable to the waters of the Lake, can be enjoyed with much less expense, and what constitutes a very important additional circumstance, its temperature can be graduated to the comfort or feeble condition of the bather, to whom in many cases a cold bath is decidedly prejudicial.
Importance for Health
As the means for promoting health, to say nothing of comfort, cleanliness and frequent ablutions cannot be too strenuously urged.
The same feelings which impel animals to plunge into the refreshing stream during the heat of summer, suggests to man the strong necessity of imitating the example.
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As the Doctors would say, accumulations on the surface impede perspiratory action, produce a restlessness, expel sleep, and mos imperiously demand the bath.	■
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