THE HEAT A MAN CAN ENDURE.

Evening Star, Issue 3453, 17 March 1874, Page 3

THE HEAT A MAN CAN ENDURE.

To the Editor. , olß>~Xn an article under the above heading m Saturday’s issue you state that the shampooers in a Turkish bath continue four or five hours in a moist atmosphere at a temperature ranging from 105 to 110. degrees. I beg most respectfully to correct the above statement. The temperature of a shampooing room is, or ought to be, from 120 -to 130 degrees ; if it is not so the bather will be chilled by the sudden transition from a mudh greater heat. It is most essential to keep up the heat of the body during the process of manipulation. In all the establishments that X have been in during fifteen years’ experience—in Melbourne, for instance—the attendants work from eight in the morning until nine in the evening, and are strong healthy men, I have worked in my brothers bath (ISuston square, London) fifteen hours a day when we have been short of attendants, and afterwards gone out to an evening party arid danced half the night without fatigue. Many times I have been in a heated room at 220 degrees for half an hour without any inconvenience, and it is possible to bear a much greater heat, although it is not required for the purposes of the bath. —Apologising for the length of my letter.—l am, &c.. Wm. Scott Buetqjt, Dunedin, Batl >