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Shops Acts, 1934
Sixty inspections and ten re-inspections were made during the
year in connexion with ventilation, temperature and sanitary
conveniences. No legal proceedings were instituted, as all alterations
required were carried out informally. Twenty-one exemption
certificates were granted regarding the provision on the premises
of sanitary conveniences owing to restricted accommodation or
other special circumstances affecting the premises.
Swimming Baths and Pools
There are three bathing establishments in the district ; one indoors
in Lambeth Road, S.E. 1, belonging to the Borough Council, is
connected with the Baths and Washhouses ; another, " open-air,"
situated in Kennington Park, S.E. 11, belongs to the London County
Council, and is fitted with continuous filtration and chlorination
plant ; while the third is an open-air pool, without means of cleansing,
in Brockwell Park, S.W. 2. The work is already in hand of constructing
an open-air bath, with an adequate purification plant, to replace
the old pool in Brockwell Park, which will then be closed for bathing
purposes.
Samples taken during the year from the Borough Council's indoor
bath disclosed a degree of contamination which was reported as
being serious and almost dangerous, seeing that the number of
organisms capable of growing on standard agar in twenty-four hours
at 37 degrees centigrade numbered from 200,000 to 300,000 per
cubic centimetre, B. Coli being present in 1 cubic centimetre, and
B. Welchii in 100 centimetres, the system of purification being fill
and empty with chloros added.
The following table is inserted for purposes of comparison, the
figures for other baths being recent averages from various districts
in the country, and the last column referring to the water supplied
by the Metropolitan Water Board.
The following table is inserted for purposes of comparison, the
figures for other baths being recent averages from various districts
in the country, and the last column referring to the water supplied
by the Metropolitan Water Board.