At the last meeting of the Municipal Health Committee, the Acting Commissioner of Public Health reported that he had received a personal letter from certain members of the Committee in which they stated that in the view of the Chi community the non-diserimini tion between practised at the col was subversive of decent morals. They therefore regarded it 'a5 necessary and desirable that the existing regulations should be revised to provide separate reservation periods for each sex.
The Acting Commissioner stated that during the seven seasons the Pool had been open for mixed bathing there had been no unpleasant incidents and this was the—firet complaint received, although of late owing to a somewhat rougher element making use of the Pool ccrtain incidents not of a serious nature had occurred which resulted in reprimands and warnings being issued. He considered that the servation of the Pool for the sexes would very greatly diminish its popularity and value to the public and that it would be dificult fairly to allocate periods for each sex.
In observing that the view held by the Chinese community on thi question might be widely from that obtaining in foreign cles, the Chairman favoured facil ties being provided to meet the wishes of the members who had written to the Acting Commissioner. He proposed that a suiicient appropriation be included la the 1931 estimates for the provision of an additional pool in close proximity to the existing Peel to be reserved during certain pene exclusively for male and for female bathers. Upon the members who had written on the subject stating that they regarded his proposal as satisfactory it was unanimously. endorsed.
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