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SWIMMING POOLS
During the year, one new public swimming pool and 2 new
school swimming pools were brought into use, so that at present
there are 3 public swimming pools and 9 school swimming pools
in the Borough.
35 samples were taken from the public swimming pools, 33
for bacteriological and chemical examination and two for chemical
examination only. 31 samples were taken from school swimming
pools for bacteriological and chemical examination.
The results of these examinations were satisfactory with
the exception of the new public swimming pool which, although
bacteriologically satisfactory, showed a degree of organic
impurity during the peak summer period.
Measures are being taken to remedy this. Teething troubles
of this nature are bound to arise with a new pool whilst the
capacity of the pumps and equipment are being tried and a
period of trial and error must inevitably elapse before equipment
of this type functions entirely satisfactorily.
This new pool is the first to be completed by the new Borough.
The pool is of County Championship size (110' x 48') within
a hall incorporating a gallery for 300 spectators and a bathers
sun bay. The building is set in a spacious park in the grounds
of which are the Pool Manager's house, a car park for 100 cars, a
sub-station, service and access roads, and a turning space for
coaches.
The southern windows of the pool overlook a sunbathing
terrace which is entered through a long footpool. Adjoining the
shallow end of the pool hall is a refreshment room accommodating
some 80 people with bar service from the service area which
opens also to the sun terrace, the bathers refreshment ar£a and
the park. A special feature of the pool is in the circulation to
and from the changing rooms. While bathers pass from changing
rooms into the pool hall through the pre-cleansing units, the
return from the pool to the changing rooms is through warmed
re-entry rooms.
This arrangement keeps the changing rooms dry and obviates
the wet, and hence dirty floors, due to bathers who in other
pools return to the changing rooms through the pre-cleansing
units, taking footpool and shower water back into the dressing
areas. These re-entry rooms are super heated and ventilated,
serving as quick drying rooms.
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