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Gone is the 01d Swimming Hole

What a change! The old swimming hole of happy memory is an extinct as
the dode. It has been commercialized into a bathing beach. Even the park
pool has cast off its preletarianism to become the commnity natatorium.

Men who once clad like September morn defied chiggers, mosguitoes, biting
gnats, and horseflies on land, and leeches, sea nettles, and snakes in the
water, for a swim are no more, or, like Ferdinand, are content to sit in the
shade. Some of the frog catchers of other days have become indulgent fathers
of daughters in ultra-modern beach pajamas, girls whose aquatic performanees «©
are as strenuous as having wavelets ripvle between the toes of their "athlete's
feet." Or worse, they are the proud sires of sons who hide themselves on the
beach in sand beneath stylish umbrellas to listen to swing music from their
portable radios.

Yesterday, the instructor in swimming was a coach. Today, he is a pro=
fessor of natation. Tomorroy, he ill be a natatorial artist. A fer years
ago he taught diving and strokes. To this accomplishment he has had added
life saving according to the gospel of the Red Cross. Now he must be able
to select a Miss America vith the diplomacy of a Paris deciding betyveen a
Juno, a Minerva, and a Venus. He must be prevared to ster before the microphone
on a moment's notice to sell a beach vith the conviction of a Bill Hay
promoting Campbell's soup, or he must be able to outline the fine points of
beauty judging with the clarity of a Lady Esther distinguishing between the
various shades of lipstick.

Svimming is a Rig Business

Swimming is a "magnificent" enterprise resting securei: on the customs,
shifting styles, social ambitions, fads, and foibles of a delightful and
"bejittered" people. It requires engineering, architecture, and art to
construct its pools, protect its beaches, and beautify their surroundings;
bacteriology and sanitary chemistry are essential to provide safe water and to
keep it free from pollutions.

Bathing places, to be successful from the standpoints of health, recreation,
and finance, must be planned carefully, located wisely, and thoroughly safe.
Neglect of any of these important factors vill doom them to failure. Around
svimming pools and bathing beaches there should be an atmosphere of wholesomeness
which leaves little to be desired ~hen measured by standards of health, recrea-
tion, social progress, and moral excellence. Swimming, like all Gaul, may be
divided into three parts namely sanitation, safety, and the simmer.

Sanitation

In having a doctor look at swimming, I shall reduce to a minimum consider-
ation of the many details involved in the operation of swimming pools and the
management of bathing beaches. These are adequately covered in the latest edition
of "The Report of the Joint Committee on Bathing Places of the Conference of
State Sanitary Engineers and the American Public Health Association" or in /
"The Minimm Sanitary Requirements for Swimming Pools and Bathing Places," of
the Illinois State Department of Health. Both of these vamphlets are readily
available, If you have not already read them carefully, I ~ould advise you to
do so, since the first is the Bible of the operators of swimming pools and the
second is an excellent bulletin which conteins the law of the land if the pool
is in Illinois. The measures used to insure the safety and sanitation of
swimming pools and bathing beaches, like the basic sciences of medicine, are
physical, chemical and biological.