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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Woolwich 1959
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]
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members of the public.
The detailed attendances for the year ended 31st March, 1959 were as follows:-
| Public Swimming | 329,155 |
| Swimming Tuition | 7,613 |
| School Swimming | 164,676 |
| Slipper Baths | 116,533 |
| Turkish Baths | 10,576 |
| Public Laundry - Hand Washing | 12,614 |
| Machine Washing | 13,467 |
| Swimming Clubs | 33,983 |
| Schoolchildren - Cricket School | 4,088 |
| Free Baths to Old Age Pensioners and Unemployed Persons | 5,885 |
| 698,590 |
Water for the swimming baths at both Woolwich and
Plumstead is drawn from deep wells and the supply to
Eltham Swimming Baths is obtained from the Metropolitan
Water Board mains.
In all three swimming baths the water is continuously
filtrated and chlorinated.
Once every year the water in all the baths is completely
changed.
Routine sampling of water from the Council's swimming
baths and boating and paddling pools and testing for pH reaction
and chlorine content is carried out by the Health
Department.
Twenty nine samples were submitted to the Southern
Group Laboratory at Hither Green Hospital for bacteriological
examination and were also tested for chlorine content
and pH reaction by the Health Department.
The average results of the examinations and tests
are as follows:-
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