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Inspector at the conclusion of Medical Inspection. Recommendations
are sent to the Director of Education.
The School Medical Officer's Report gives a detailed
account of the sanitary improvements effected during 1935.
Swimming Baths and Pools.—
(a) Public.
(i) Municipal Baths, High Street.
These comprise a covered swimming bath erected in July,
1900, and slipper baths added in 1922/3, and modernised in
1934 by the installation of a continuous chlorination and
filtration plant.
The Baths Superintendent kindly gives the following
particulars:—-
The length is 127ft. 8ins. and the breadth 35ft. lin. The
depth varies from 3ft. 6ins. to 6ft. 7ins., and the capacity is
approximately 150,000 gallons.
The chlorination and filtration plant was supplied by
Messrs. Bell Bros., and has a turnover of three hours
(50,000 gallons per hour), 0.3 to 0.5 parts per million of free
chlorine being aimed at.
The plant was kept in operation for an average of 12.5
hours per day, the bath being open for 150 days.
The approximate number of swimmers in 1935 was 67,936
and the estimated maximum load was 1,193.
Bacteriological and chemical analyses were carried out
on three occasions, with the results shown in the following
table (samples 1—3).
(ii) Whipps Cross Bathing Pool.
This is a large open-air pool situated in Epping Forest in
the area of the Borough of Leyton and a few hundred yards
from the Walthamstow boundary.
It is administered by a joint committee representing the
two boroughs.
There is no continuous chlorination and filtration plant.
Consideration is now being given to the matter.
The pool is supervised by the Medical Officer of Health
for Leyton, who kindly sends a copy of the analytical findings
when samples are taken.