Turning to the question of changing the water in the pool: the bath has its own pumps which work about 16 hours a day, pumping the water through the bath, purifying it and sending it back,' It takes, Youghly, 12 hours for the water to pass right through the bath, so will be seen that each day' the water changes a little more than naturally put in fresh water once completely. The authorities
as often as possible and a complete change of water, fresh from the Shanghai Waterworks, is put in about once every 10 days, Changing the water completely like this more often, which would be unnecessary would be found a great inconvenience to the throngs of foreigners and Chinese who use the pool daily, for a bath which it takes 350,000 gallons to fill, cannot he emptied, cleaned and filled very quickly—36 hours is the usual time taken in this case. The emptying of the bath is commenced at 9.30 one night, the cleaning takes place the follow. ing day when the pool is emptied, and jit is filled during the remainder of the day and night, ready "pen on the following morning.
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