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It should be remembered that conditions pertaining to bathing water are
different from those relating to drinking water. Many persons svallow little or
no water while swimming, This is particularly tru@ if it contains salt, Under’
such circumstances, the danger of enidemics of typhoid fever or dysentery from
svimming is much less then from drinking water from a polluted supply. There
may be an occasional or sporadic case of typhoid fever from bathing, but evidemics
are comparatively rare.

Carelessness

The great danger at bathing places is not due to bacteria but to lack
of thought amd carelessness. At least 95% of the deaths, injuries and illnesses
associated with swimming are unnecessary. If pool killers vere highly efficiont,
the tragedies of bething beaches, summer outings, and vactions ~ould be negligible.
Until we can discover a serum which will give people caution and foresight, we
mast continue to expect many accidents, infections, and illnesses connected with
water. Even if there tere such a preventive ve vould still have to deal with
anti-vaccinationists who would refuse to be vrotected.

The old swimming hole of happy memory is gone, It is now a bathing
beach. Park pools have taken a graduate course and have become emporiums of
natation, The old teacher of diving reapnears as an artist of contortion. It
is no longer z00d taste to speak of swimmers. The Emily Rost of bathing beaches
insists that the proper ~ord is agumcade. Swimming is both big business and
superspecialization. Bathing places are located by commercial strategists,
designed by architects, built by engineers, adorned bv artists, supervised by
Sanitary chemists, and checked by bacteriologists. They are overwhelmed by
salesmen, cosmeticians, suit designers, crooners, and students of anatomy,
Swimming is truly the King of Sports and the Sport of Queens.