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Letter to Editor
May 16, 1837
The Daily Herald
New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut
What is this article about?
A letter to the editors complains about the lack of a public bathing establishment in New Haven, despite its larger population than Hartford and presence of students. It criticizes the focus on refectories, confectionaries, and grog shops, urging an enterprising individual to open warm and cold baths for health benefits.
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Messrs. Editors:-
What is the reason that in New-Haven, where there is a larger population than at Hartford, we have never yet had a good public bathing establishment?-
While at Hartford they have excellent accommodations in this respect, the New-Haven people seem to have given their whole attention to eating and drinking, without once thinking of a thing so essential to health as the bath. We have refectories upon refectories, confectionaries upon confectionaries, and grog shops upon grog shops, many of them gaining but a scanty support, and certainly contributing but little to the health or happiness of the community. Why, then, does not some enterprising man, instead of opening temples for luxury and administering to the appetite, contrive some means for cleansing the external surface, by opening a good establishment for warm and cold baths? Such an establishment would be well supported among so large a number of students and other strangers, as we have in this town.
A Friend of Cleanliness.
What is the reason that in New-Haven, where there is a larger population than at Hartford, we have never yet had a good public bathing establishment?-
While at Hartford they have excellent accommodations in this respect, the New-Haven people seem to have given their whole attention to eating and drinking, without once thinking of a thing so essential to health as the bath. We have refectories upon refectories, confectionaries upon confectionaries, and grog shops upon grog shops, many of them gaining but a scanty support, and certainly contributing but little to the health or happiness of the community. Why, then, does not some enterprising man, instead of opening temples for luxury and administering to the appetite, contrive some means for cleansing the external surface, by opening a good establishment for warm and cold baths? Such an establishment would be well supported among so large a number of students and other strangers, as we have in this town.
A Friend of Cleanliness.
What sub-type of article is it?
Persuasive
Social Critique
Informative
What themes does it cover?
Health Medicine
Social Issues
What keywords are associated?
Public Bathing
New Haven
Hartford
Health
Cleanliness
Students
What entities or persons were involved?
A Friend Of Cleanliness
Messrs. Editors
Letter to Editor Details
Author
A Friend Of Cleanliness
Recipient
Messrs. Editors
Main Argument
new haven lacks a public bathing establishment despite its large population and students, unlike hartford; the proliferation of eating and drinking places should be replaced by baths essential for health.
Notable Details
Larger Population Than Hartford
Excellent Accommodations In Hartford
Refectories, Confectionaries, Grog Shops
Supported By Students And Strangers