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Tooting Baths.
170. The Council has also decided to provide slipper or spraybaths
on the site of the Tooting Vestry Hall, facing Th Broadway. A design is being prepared by Messrs
Druery & Dolby, the architects for the Clapham Baths, and will
provide for the following accommodation, viz:—
16 first class spray baths for men.
24 second class do. do.
8 do. slipper baths for women.
One half of this accommodation will be provided in the first instance.
171. An office for the Rate Collector for the Tooting Ward will
also be provided in the same building, with a separate entrance from
Garratt Lane.
Open air Swimming Bath.
172. The provision of an Open Air Swimming Bath has continued
to receive consideration, and the attention of the
London Couuty Council has again been called to this
Council's suggestion that a bath should be provided on Tooting
Common. With the view of inducing the County Council to adopt
the suggestion and of finding work for the unemployed, the Council
offered to contribute one-third of the nett cost incurred, such
contribution not to exceed £2,000, but the County Council have
replied that they regret that they do not see their way at the present
time to incur the expenditure.