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MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS
Swimming baths
The Corporation has three public baths which have indoor
swimming pools, at Putney, Balham and Battersea, and two openair
pools, at King George's Park and Tooting Bec.
All Corporation baths are supplied from the mains of the
Metropolitan Water Board. The water is chlorinated and circulates
continuously through a filtration plant. Samples of water are
taken at regular intervals and are submitted to the Public Health
Laboratory at County Hall for bacteriological examination.
During the year, 86 samples were submitted for examination.
Satisfactory results were obtained in 84 instances, with slight
deviations in two samples; further tests proved satisfactory.
There are open-air swimming pools at two of the Corporation's
children's homes, one of which is situated at Banstead in Surrey.
Satisfactory samples were taken by Banstead Urban District
Council in respect of the home in their area.
Several Inner London Education Authority's schools in the
Borough have swimming baths, and during the year 100 reports
were received from the Scientific Branch of the Greater London
Council in respect of 13 of these baths. Satisfactory results were
obtained in 95 instances; in the remaining samples there were
slight deviations from normal but further tests proved satisfactory
in all cases.
Examination of water from artesian wells and taps
Thirty samples were submitted for examination at the Public
Health Laboratory and found to be satisfactory.
Disinfection and disinfestation
Methods of Disinfection: Following the notification of a case
of infectious disease requiring disinfection, an inspection is
made and the following methods used. The patient's room is
sprayed with a formaldehyde solution. The doors and windows
are closed and the room can be used again after five or six hours.
Advice is also given to the occupiers that a thorough "spring
cleaning" of the room is a very effective "disinfection" process,
and should be carried out in addition to the work of disinfection
by the Council's staff.