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victoria park bathing lake.
Condition of the Water in Men's Bathing Lake.
The following letter was submitted to the Public Health and Housing
Committee :—
Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green.
Town Clerk's Office,
Town Hall,
Bethnal Green, E.
25th July, 1913.
Dear Sir,
Men's Bathing Lake, Victoria Park.
The Bethnal Green Borough Council has again had under
consideration the question of the condition of the water in the
men's bathing lake, Victoria Park, and I am to inform you that
the Council, at its meeting held last evening, passed a resolution
on the subject in the following terms:—
"That the Council call the attention of the London
County Council to the fact that owing to the large number of
bathers during the summer months in the Victoria Park
men's bathing lake, the water becomes polluted more rapidly
than it can be renewed by the means available at present,
and that the Council therefore request the London County
Council to provide means by which an adequate supply of
fresh water to the lake can be maintained during the summer
months."
In view of the very large number of persons using the lake at
this period of the year, serious consequences might arise if the water
in the lake is not kept in a fit condition for bathing.
I am directed by the Council to transmit a copy of the above
resolution to the Poplar Borough Council, and to express the hope
that that authority will see its way to support the representations
made by this Council to the London County Council, and urge the
County Council to give immediate attention to the matter.
Yours faithfully,
C. G. E. FLETCHER,
Town Clerk.
Leonard Potts, Esq.,
Town Clerk to the Borough of Poplar.