The So-called Water That Greenvale Patients Have to Bathe In 1923

ITS NAME IS MUD.

The So-called Water That Greenvale Patients Have to Bathe In.

Mud pies might provide a hobby for little boys, but mud baths are a different thing.

Last week the patients at Greenvale Sanatorium struck against their weekly bath.

They declared it a “mud bath strike.”

Greenvale, just now rich with a wealth of wattle bloom, has suffered from about six months’ bad water supply.

First there came a threat of drought, and water had to be carted to the Sanatorium. 

The drought ended and the pump broke.

Now a new pump has been installed, but the dam is far from full.

Consequently a quantity of muddy sediment is being drawn up.

HE WAS ASTONISHED

A patient was so astonished at the rich chocolate tinge of his bath that he exclaimed, “What’s this new treatment”

He, along with others, refused to have a bath that week.

Patients say their bath water should be taken from the tanks and not from the dam.

Some of then are stated to have tested the water in bottles.

After standing for a short period the bottles showed inch of muddy sediment.

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/274199636