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SWIMMING BATHS.
There are no public swimming baths within the District, but
this deficiency will shortly be removed, as the Council decided
during the year, to adapt the disused Odeon Cinema, Station Road,
Sidcup, to provide an indoor bath.
Of the private pools in the area, one is situated in a Children's
Home, and is also used by other local school children. Ten
samples of water taken from this pool were found to be
satisfactory.
Outdoor pools are attached to a factory and to a club, and
four samples from one and two from the other showed the waters
to be good. A further outdoor pool is of a prefabricated nature
and is situated in a school playground. Four samples from this
were in order.
Water in all of these pools is filtered and chlorinated.
VERMINOUS CONDITIONS AND INSECT PESTS.
No more positive evidence of the improved cleanliness under
which the population lives could be found than that relating to
household vermin. Twenty years ago, bedding was often found
to be infested with bed bugs, rooms with house fleas and
children with lice. Now these conditions are comparatively rare
and form a minor aspect of the Inspectors' routine.
Twenty-six visits were paid in this connection, as a result
of the receipt of 15 complaints. Some of these referred to ants
or other less serious pests than those mentioned above. In all, it
was necessary to treat nine premises, five of which were Council
Houses.
Twenty-two enquiries were received regarding the destruction
of wasps' nests, and the persons concerned were referred to a
local man who undertakes such work.
WATER SUPPLY.
All dwelling houses in the district receive a piped supply from
the mains of the Metropolitan Water Board.
The water supplied to the Chislehurst and Sidcup District
during 1963 was satisfactory both in quality and quantity.
The sources of supply to the area are River Thames derived
water, together with well water from Eynsford, Horton Kirby,
North Orpington, Shortlands, Wilmington, Darenth and Bexley