Hygiene for young people . r take lint weekly baths arenot enough, it we wish to keep the -kin so cleanthat it can do its work well. 64 HYGIENE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. A clean body, clean clothing, a clean house, aclean yard, clean outbuildings, and a cleanvillage or town are all forms of cleanlinesswithout which individual health and publichealth are impossible. Baths are spoken of as hot, when the water isat a temperature of about 100° F. to 108° F.; aswarm, when the water is from 9(5° to 100°; astepid, when the water is from 86° to 96°; ascool, when between 65° and 80°; and as cold,when from 50°
Hygiene for young people . r take lint weekly baths arenot enough, it we wish to keep the -kin so cleanthat it can do its work well. 64 HYGIENE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE. A clean body, clean clothing, a clean house, aclean yard, clean outbuildings, and a cleanvillage or town are all forms of cleanlinesswithout which individual health and publichealth are impossible. Baths are spoken of as hot, when the water isat a temperature of about 100° F. to 108° F.; aswarm, when the water is from 9(5° to 100°; astepid, when the water is from 86° to 96°; ascool, when between 65° and 80°; and as cold,when from 50° to 65°. And first, as regardscold baths : many middle-aged people say that theycannot stand the effectsof a cold bath. Thismay be true of peoplewho are over middle life;but it is not true ofmost young people. Thereis not one strong personin a hundred who willnot be benefited by a Figure 21.—Bath-mitten or glove, a ^ good substitute for a sponge. co]({ bath. Where thereis no bath-room in a house, the sponge bath. BATHING. 65 may be used instead. All that is required forthis is a basin, a rough towel and a sponge;and surely there is no house in the landso poor as not to be able to afford thesearticles. The truth is that most people dislike thecold, and so do not take a cold bath. Ittakes a good deal of courage to walk from awarm bed and plunge into water at a tempera-ture of 60° to 65°. But all those who are in thehabit of doing this say that they get greatbenefit from it. It wakes up mind and bodybetter than anything else does.
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