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THE SANITATION OF SWIMMING POOLS—PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF LOCAL CONDITIONS

THE SANITATION OF SWIMMING POOLS—PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF LOCAL CONDITIONS laboratories by those most interested. The results of their examinations were so varied, and so at variance with what we were led to expect, that we determined upon a thorough and systematic routine examination of all which we could reach, to present a survey of conditions as they now exist. Available literature has been consulted freely to establish some sanitary standard as a basis for our work but without success. It is only during the last ten years that there has been any attempt towards the sanitary control of swimming pools and while articles have been written on the sanitation of them, they have been infrequent. The methods of examination described show a lack of uniformity and no standard has been established of purity although the ideal of one similar to that for drinking water has been suggested. We have reviewed the literature somewhat thoroughly here with an idea of bringing the subject to public discussion as a provocation of increased study of some of the necessary sanitary factors of preventive medicine. That bathing in polluted waters may actually spread disease has been shown by Aiken (Proc. Ill. Water Supply Assoc., 1911) who has probably definitely settled the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Public Health American Public Health Association

THE SANITATION OF SWIMMING POOLS—PRELIMINARY SURVEY OF LOCAL CONDITIONS

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laboratories by those most interested. The results of their examinations were so varied, and so at variance with what we were led to expect, that we determined upon a thorough and systematic routine examination of all which we could reach, to present a survey of conditions as they now exist. Available literature has been consulted freely to establish some sanitary standard as a basis for our work but without success. It is only during the last ten years that there has been any attempt towards the sanitary control of swimming pools and while articles have been written on the sanitation of them, they have been infrequent. The methods of examination described show a lack of uniformity and no standard has been established of purity although the ideal of one similar to that for drinking water has been suggested. We have reviewed the literature somewhat thoroughly here with an idea of bringing the subject to public discussion as a provocation of increased study of some of the necessary sanitary factors of preventive medicine. That bathing in polluted waters may actually spread disease has been shown by Aiken (Proc. Ill. Water Supply Assoc., 1911) who has probably definitely settled the

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American Journal of Public Health – American Public Health Association

Published: Jun 1, 1918

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