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The floor of the pool is covered with terrazzo and the sides
lined with white glazed interlocking bricks.
The dressing rooms are between the entrance hall and bath
hall, with showers and foot baths adjacent, ensuring that bathers
use the shower and foot baths before entering the pool.
The filtration plant comprising three vertical pressure filters,
giving a maximum rate of 200 gallons per square foot per hour and
capable of filtering the whole of the 126,000 gallons in four hours.
Aeration is carried out both before and after filtration. Chlorination
is by the automatic liquid gas type to Ministry of Health recommendations
of 0.2 to 0.5 parts per 1,000,000.
Washing accommodation comprises :—
Eight slipper baths and one spray bath for men.
Six slipper baths and one spray bath for women.
Space has been allowed for future extensions.
The cost, exclusive of the land and furnishing, was £27,350.
SMOKE ABATEMENT.
Five complaints of nuisances arising from smoke were investigated
and observation kept. All the cases were abated after
interviews with the proprietors of the factories concerned.
Observations were also kept on other chimneys in the district,
and one case was reported to the Council and a notice served and
the nuisance was abated.
SPECIAL CLASSES OF PREMISES SUBJECT TO CONTROL
BY THE LOCAL AUTHORITY.
There are no typical houses let in lodgings, hop-pickers, offensive
trades or underground sleeping rooms within the district.
Caravan yards exist (a total of 15), with a varying number of
vans, from one to 24 per yard or colony, the total number of caravans
being 88, having a population of 193 adults and 94 children—a total
of 287 persons.
Many of the caravans are overcrowded, and some are in a
dilapidated condition, The word caravan covers not only the