A patient takes a saline bath while staff work in the background, at the Queen Victoria hospital, West Sussex, December 1940 The patient with burns is seen resting in the bath after his dressings have been removed. He is allowed to smoke through a holder to keep the smoke away from his eyes, and has been given warm milk. The length of stay in the bath was typically from one hour upwards. On the left a nurse is seen testing the salt content of the saline bath, while on the right an orderly watches the temperature control