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Spraying and Cleansing Floors of London County Council
Schools with Electrolytic Disinfecting Fluid.
A total 960 gallons were supplied to four London County Council
Public Elementary Schools for spraying and cleansing floors of class
rooms.
Swimming Baths, the use therein of the Electrolytic
Fluid.
The fluid continues to be added to the water in the swimming baths
in the same quantity and strength as mentioned in the Annual Report for
the year 1909, viz., 1 part of Chlorine to 2,000,000 parts of water. 4,832
gallons were supplied to the Poplar Baths, 5,527 gallons to the Bow Baths
and 1,110 gallons to the Island Baths, making a total of 11,469 gallons.
The Bath Superintendents repeat their statements that the addition
of the fluid prevents the formation of slime in the water, the slime is not
found at the bottom of the baths when they are emptied, and there is no
offensive smell when the baths are being cleansed.
Pollution of Swimming Baths and the Purification of the
Water of Swimming Baths.
The Public Health and Housing Committee viewed the Electrolytic
Disinfectant Manufacturing Plant and the shed for its accommodation,
reconstructed on another site in Violet Road, and their attention was
called to a paper on the " Pollution of Swimming Baths," by Dr. J.
Graham Forbes, issued by the Medical Officers of Schools Association.
Dr. Forbes says that: "considered as a possible means of conveying
infection, whether epidemic or not, it is a matter of surprise that comparatively
little attention has been drawn to the evils and dangers
lurking in our swimming baths.
Although much has been done by Dr. Alexander, Medical Officer of
Health for Poplar, to point out and remedy these dangers by the electrolytic
process of disinfection, the subject is not one which has been seriously
met by medical officers."