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Durnsford Road Open Air Baths
1962/3 1963/4
Adults 15,865 19,925
Children 31,441 33,923
Season Tickets issued 565 663
* (Attendances of season ticket holders no longer recorded).
Samples of water were taken from both baths. The results of
the tests were uniformly satisfactory.
There is nothing I can add to the remarks which I have made
in previous Annual Reports relating to our Swimming Baths being
a means of providing health-giving exercises in the open air.
The incidence of Plantar warts (verrucas) among school
children continues to be a matter of concern. Although it is
quite obvious that swimming baths are by no means the only way
in which verrucas can be spread, it is equally obvious that the
wet surrounds of swimming baths provide a means of allowing the
virus which causes verrucas to pass from one child to another.
I am doing all I can to get the co-operation of teachers and parents
in obviating the spread of this infection and the Baths
Manager and I have the situation constantly under review.
Collection and Disposal of Refuse
The Borough Engineer and Surveyor, who is responsible for
this service, reports as follows;-
(a) Household refuse is collected weekly by vehicles
operated on the relay system.
(b) Trade and special refuse is collected as and when
required.
Eight 12 cubic yard capacity Scammell Containers and two
Mechanical Horses are used for collection of household refuse, and
one Bedford Lorry for trade and special refuse.
During the year 1962/63 the total tonnage of refuse collected
was 11, 702 tons; the income from salvage material amounted to
£2.880.
The steam raised by the incineration of the refuse is used
for space and water heating at Western Road Baths.
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