Note 10 — Chapter V · WATER, HEAT AND LIGHT.

“To-day we take baths as a matter of course. Apart from the pleasure of washing and of having washed, we know that soft warm water can remove ‘the dried-up epidermis or scarf-skin, the deposit of sweaty and oily matter, to say nothing of the dirt and impurities derived from the air and the particles rubbed off from our clothing.’ But ‘we realise with difficulty that the bath was but rarely met with in houses built even forty years ago. Bathing in those days, and therefore, of course, swimming, formed no portion of the school curriculum, the gradual introduction of first one, and then the other, being among the salutary results of recent educational development.’”—Dr. Malcolm Morris, in “The Book of Health.”