# The swimming baths of London

Author: Dudgeon, R. E. (Robert Ellis), 1820-1904

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76117

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## Summary

Swimming is an exercise at once healthful, pleasant, and useful. The full hygienic effects of swimming can only be obtained when it is practised in the open air, and in unpolluted water of a natural temperature. In a close, more or less imperfectly ventilated room, and in water artificially heated, from which, consequently, the air has been partially expelled, swimming, while still retaining its characters of pleasantness and utility, ceases to be a hygienic agent of any considerable power. Every town which aspires to be considered at all perfect in its sanitary arrangements should possess ample swimming baths of pure water in the open air. The seaside towns of this seagirt land are provi...

## Chapters

- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swimming-baths-of-london-76117/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swimming-baths-of-london-76117/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swimming-baths-of-london-76117/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-swimming-baths-of-london-76117/chapters/4/index.md)