Word: bathroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Is Right. Dr. Dock urged a return to the nursing customs of Florence Nightingale's day when all but prostrated patients got up for meals, bathroom going, etc. There is evidence that bedrest deaths have gone up since nursing became so expert that a patient never needs to move. He had many good words to say for the Army's convalescent program (TIME, Nov. 15), which makes men move uninjured parts of their bodies as soon as they can, and normally gets head injuries out of bed in a matter of days...
...wives do not lock the bathroom door while bathing, but of those who do, nearly half lock it even when no one else is home...
...common complaint against the bathroom: toilet noises can be heard in other parts of the house...
What are the bedroom and bathroom habits of the nation? In the interest of postwar housing design, the John B. Pierce Foundation of Manhattan, a housing research group, investigated this question. The Foundation made a study of 131 typical families (income: $2,000 to $3,000). Findings...
...listen to the radio, 3% pray, 2% smoke, 2% eat, 2% get up to close the window, 50% say they do nothing. Of the wives. 29% read, 11% talk, 8% listen to the radio, 5% pray, 3% think, 2% smoke, 1% eat, 1% get up to go to the bathroom, 40% do nothing. The average husband is ready for lights out after 19 minutes; the wife, after 14 minutes...