Services & Functions
Marcel Vellinga, Paul Oliver, Alexander Bridge · 2024
Prescriptions and regulations about personal cleanliness and hygiene exist in all cultures. Often related to ideas about religion, health and fertility, as well as to climatic conditions and the availability of water, many distinct bathing traditions have developed throughout the world. Though it is universally recognised that hygiene, sanitation and health are interrelated, the frequency, regularity and thoroughness of these differentways of bathing is culturally determined.