The Question of the Possibility of Disease Being Spread Chinese correspondent has written to this paper on the subject of the Hongkew Park open air }swimming pool, asking whether the hundreds of people who use it during the hot days do not sometimes help to spread disease, and suggesting that once a week for changing the water is not often enough.
On reference to the Municipal authorities who have the care of the swimming pool in their hands, it is discovered that the inquirer has not much giennd for apprehension, Last year several new experiments were carried out for the purifying fof the water, and with success, £0 that this season the water inthe bath is purer than it has been during most years. The bottom of the bath is not tiled so that the water has to be very still before the bottom can be plainly discerned, but in the early morning before the surface has been disturbed and air bubbles made in the water by bathers the water is as clear as could be desived, As to the spreading of di those who are obviously suffering from any com plaint are debarred from entering, any swim whose illness i not obvious, the germs could not exist long in the chlorinated water.
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