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Eltham Baths Public Hall in winter for social and sporting
activities.
The attendance figures for the Public Laundry during
the past five years are as follows: 1959/60 - 23,570;
1958/59 - 26,081; 1957/58 - 23,939; 1956/57 - 18,295;
and 1955/56 - 12,924„
Attendances for Slipper Baths in 1959/60 totalled
113,665, and the total attendances for all services for the
year was 748,960, an increase of 50,370 over the year 1958/59.
Altogether 195,675 schoolchildren attended at the Baths
in organised classes for swimming and swimming instruction,
and 5,083 swimming lessons were provided for members of the
public.
Considerable progress was made with the Modernisation
Scheme at Woolwich Baths, which it is hoped will be completed
in mid-1962.

In all three swimming baths the water is continuously
filtrated and chlorinated.
Routine sampling of water from the Council's swimming
baths and boating and paddling pools Is carried out.
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