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THE BATHS AND WASH HOUSES SERVICE.
This Municipal Service is of great personal value to all
citizens, providing swimming baths for healthy indoor and openair
recreation, private slipper baths for personal cleanliness and
public laundries for carrying out the family wash in a speedy
and labour-saving manner for the housewife's benefit.
The service consists of the following:—
Central Baths adjoining the Town Hall.
Two indoor swimming pools, eighteen slipper baths for males
and twelve s'.ipper baths for females.
Also there are medicated Baths, such as Foam and Pine, for
the treatment of persons suffering from Rheumatism, Sciatica,
Lumbago and allied complaints.
Bromley Road and Tiverton Road Baths and Public Laundries.
The public laundries each comprise nine rotating washingmachines
with hand washing stalls, power operated hydroextractors,
mangles, hot air drying chambers and electric irons.
There are sixteen slipper baths at Bromley Road and twentytwo
at Tiverton Road.
The Conway Road establishment consists of eighteen slipper
baths.
The Lido, Lordship Lane is a large open-air bathing pool,
complete with diving stages, spring-boards, chutes, sun-bathing
terraces and dressing accommodation for 1,200 bathers at one
time. Additional amenities consist of Restaurant and Cafe,
terraced seating for spectators and a free car park.
The whole of the water supplied to the swimming pool is
filtered and sterilised by modern filtration system, ensuring the
safety of the bathers' health at all times.
Special facilities are afforded to old age pensioners enabling
them to have free hot baths during the greater part of the week.
Also during certain hours, children up to 14 years of age can
obtain hot baths for 1d. provided own towel and soap is used.