4. Tubs not in good condition or not properly equipped must not be used.
5. Only patients under treatment are allowed in the room.
6. Toilet each patient just before the bath. Patients may be removed from the tub for toilet purposes when necessary.
7. In preparing for the bath, warm the tubs with hot water and then regulate the temperature so that a small amount of water at 96 degrees will be flowing continually.
8. Adjust the hammock to the tub and place the patient in the bath resting on the hammock. Adjust the cover to the tub, with patient's head through the neck opening unless sheets or other covers are used.
9. The temperature of the water must be taken in each tub at least every half hour. Feel the water in each tub frequently. If it seems too warm or too cold, take the temperature at once. If you find it varying from 96 degrees adjust to that temperature by adding a small amount of hot or cold water. If the temperature cannot be kept between 95 and 97 degrees, let the water out of the tub and remove the patient immediately. The physician in charge and the chief engineer should be notified at once. The bath tub key must be fastened to a special cord worn by the nurse on duty. It must be delivered to the nurse in charge of the ward when the bathroom is closed.
10. If the patient is very noisy, restless or flushed, fasten an ice poultice to the tub cover so that as the patient lies in the water the back of the head or neck will rest upon it. Replace with a fresh one before the ice is entirely melted.
Intensely excited patients may have cold compresses to the neck, changed often, for periods of 20 minutes.
Sponge all faces with cold water once an hour.
11. Patients are to be permitted to drink as much cool water (not iced) as they desire, and must be offered a drink at least once an hour.