The Metropolitian Baths - the Ladies' Bath, 1858. '...there has scarcely existed in the metropolis [ie London] a convenient bathing establishment; most of the notoriously incommodious, and extensive only in their tariffs of [However] a company has placed under the effective management of Mr. H. Mahomed, son of the celebrated Brighton regisseur des bains, a luxuriously-appointed system of baths, [called] the we add that the attendants are civil, active, and skilful - that Mr. Mahomed himself superintends the arrangements of the gent
The Metropolitian Baths - the Ladies' Bath, 1858. '...there has scarcely existed in the metropolis [ie London] a convenient bathing establishment; most of the notoriously incommodious, and extensive only in their tariffs of [However] a company has placed under the effective management of Mr. H. Mahomed, son of the celebrated Brighton regisseur des bains, a luxuriously-appointed system of baths, [called] the we add that the attendants are civil, active, and skilful - that Mr. Mahomed himself superintends the arrangements of the gentlemen's department, while Mrs. Mahomed administers those of the ladies' - that the terms are really moderate, and the accommodation such as must satisfy the most fastidious - we think we have said enough to induce our patronise the Metropolitan Baths. We [describe] them thus fully because they appear to us to supply a deficiency that has long been felt, and are calculated to be a source of comfort to the invalid as well as of pleasure to the may state, however, that the ladies' and gentlemen's departments are entirely distinct, and have separate entrances - the former at 71 Jermyn-street, and the latter at 24 Bury-street'. From "Illustrated London News", 1858.
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