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swimming baths
Publicly owned bath.
Surbiton Lagoon, situated in Raeburn Avenue, is an open air
pool 165 feet long and 90 feet wide, with a depth of three to nine
feet. There is also a paddling pool for small children.
The water is treated by continuous pressure sand filtration,
sterilisation by breakpoint chlorination and oxygenation over an
ornamental cascade.
Periodical samples of water are taken by the Borough Engineer
and the plant adjusted as necessary. In addition eighteen samples
were taken, by the Public health Department for chemical and
bacteriological examination all of which proved to be satisfactory.
Privately owned bath open to the Public
The Ace of Spades swimming pool, Kingston By-Pass Road, was
not in use during the year.
School both.
One private school has a small swimming bath which is used
only by scholars and staff. Sterilisation is by hand dosing with
chlorine coupled with frequent changes of the water. Nine samples
were taken by the Department to ensure adequate chlorination.
PUBLIC CLEANSING
Refuse and salvage collection is under the control of the
Borough Engineer. The rate of collection was maintained at seven
day intervals except when interfered with by holidays and sickness.
FACTORIES ACTS, 1937 and 1948.
The total number of factories on the register at the end of
the year was 260 (224 mechanical, 31 non-mechanical, and 5 works
of building construction).

Three certificates were issued under section 34 of the Factories
Act, 1937, that the factories to which they related were provided
with such means of escape in case of fire for the persons employed
therein as may be reasonably required in the circumstances.
There were one hundred and twenty-one outworkers on the
register at the end of the year. Ten visits were made but no
infringements found.
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