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Public Baths and Swimming Pools.
The Council has provided public baths in the following districts
of the Borough : —Church Street, Camberwell; Goose Green,
East Dulwich ; Old Kent Road ; and Wells Street, Camberwell.
At the Church Street Baths in addition to 89 warm baths and
a public washhouse, a first-class swimming bath with a capacity
of 130,000 gallons is available for the use of the public throughout
the year. There is also a second class swimming bath at Church
Street with a similar capacity, which has also been available for
winter swimming during the past few years.
There are 98 warm baths at the Old Kent Road Baths, and
Turkish, Russian and Foam Baths, a public washhouse, a first
class swimming bath with a capacity of 75,000 gallons, and a
second class swimming bath with a capacity of 70,000 gallons.
At Dulwich Baths, Goose Green, in addition to 53 warm
baths, there is a first class swimming bath with a capacity of
120,000 gallons and a second class swimming bath with a capacity
of 98,000 gallons.
The swimming season at these two baths is from April to the
end of September.
There are 49 warm baths at the Wells Street Baths and
facilities for the washing of clothes. No swimming facilities are
provided at these baths.

The water in all the swimming pools is purified by means of
a filtration and aeration plant and is also chlorinated.
Bacteriological and chemical examinations of the water are
conducted monthly during the summer at all the Council's baths,
and alternate months during the winter at the Church Street Baths.
The reports of these examinations show that the filtration plants
are efficient and ensure a clean and pure water for bathing.
In addition to the Council's swimming baths arrangements
the London County Council has provided an open-air bath at
Peckham Rye for the use of the public. This bath has a capacity