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is Is. 6d. for adults, 9d. for children, and 3d. for spectators.
It is an indoor swimming bath covered with white glazed tiles.
The water, supplied by the Metropolitan Water Board, is heated,
chlorinated and then filtered continuously, this cycle taking eight hours.
Five visits of inspection were made during the year by the
District Public Health Inspector and two samples of the water taken
for analysis proved to be satisfactory.
Verminous Conditions and Uncleanliness.
There were no cases of verminous persons needing attention
during the year but a small number of verminous premises were dealt
with by the Department's disinfector.
No case of filthy or unwholesome premises as described in Section
83 of the Public Health Act 1936 came to light.
Water Supply.
During the year, one property was connected to the main water
supply, having previously been dependent upon stored rainwater.
Of approximately 25,000 dwellings, only 24 are not provided with
a main piped water supply, and of these 19 are situated where a water
main is not available in the roads fronting their premises. These are
in isolated parts of the district and generally dependent upon rainwater
collected from roofs and stored in underground jtanks, but three
premises obtain their source of supply from a private well.
The remaining five premises are not connected to a main water
supply although it is available in the roads on to which they front.
Two of these are a considerable distance from the road, but three
premises are within 80 feet of the Metropolitan Water Board Main.
Fourteen week-end bungalows are not connected to a main water
supply.

The Metropolitan Water Board supplies the mains water for the
whole of the district.
The Public Health Department obtains samples of this water at
monthly intervals from various dwelling houses throughout the district.
Forty-eight samples were taken and the Analyst's reports show
that they were all satisfactory.