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uniform depth and
temperature’. This would
begin with ‘a covered and
well-ventilated iron bath, to
be placed in the Thames off
Battersea Park’. Lloyd’s
Weekly reported in 1870 that
there would be a 60×40 feet
bath, but it’s not clear if this
ever happened because it
wasn’t until 1875 that the
‘first floating bath’ on the
Thames was announced and
that was at Charing Cross, off