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one person, tlie first inscription dccides.— Tlie bain de proprete, previously mentioned, may also be taken in one of tlie basins, in the evening, after all tlie other batliers have retired. For tliis nothing is charged.—Tlie business of dressing and undressing is confined to tlie ante-rooms set aside for tliis purpose. Bathers wisbing to be dressed by tlieir own servants, may liave them admitted to tlie batli- rooms upon giving notice of it at tlie ‘bureau’, when they are in all respccts considcred like other bathers. — Without a roquelaure no one is admitted to the bath-rooms, and tliose who do not posses any tbemselves, have to get one from the batb-master. — In Order not to retard the relilling of the basins, tlie bathers are requested to leavc them immediately lipon hearing the signal given by the bell of the bath-master. — Eating or drinking in the batlirooms or the ante-rooms is permitted only upon a special prescription of the batli- physician, whose duty it is to keep from tliose rooms any- tbing that may endanger the healtli of the patients.—Düring the season all noisy conversation in the streets, the inns, or private lodgings, is to cease after ten o’cloek at night, —Every visitor is requested to inform the bath-inspector, or the Royal commissioner of the batlis, of any iufringe- inent of tliese regulations he may become acquainted with.

Every care and precaution has been taken in tliese baths, to remove all causes tending to impede the effects of the waters. Thus, not only are all the dressing-rooms heated to a proper degree even in summer, but the same ougbt to be done in the corridors by which the bath-rooms are connected with the Royal Badhotel, in order to exclude all draught from them. Invalids who find it impossiblc to walk, are let down into the baths, and hoisted up again from a room in the first story, by means of a chair; attached to a very simple and ingenious machine. This is an improvement upon the