In the film Hepworth combines a series of shots to produce a narrative depicting the bathing process from beginning to end.
He would later acknowledge the influence of the pioneering work of the Lumière brothers on this and other similar films he produced in the 1900s.
The print of Baby's Toilet survives, and Patrick Russell of the British Film Institute observes: "Long after Elizabeth Hepworth's own death, the affecting innocence of infancy remains a basic human theme.
She is then taken out of the bath, towel dried and powdered, again appearing to enjoy the procedure and peering inquisitively into the camera.
Elizabeth is less impressed to be unceremoniously placed into an uncomfortable weighing scale, showing her displeasure by wriggling and grizzling.