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The following is a report of the material presented at the First
Illinois Swimming Pool Conference:

This conference, the first of its kind to be held in this State,
was sponsored by the State Department of Public Health in cooperation with the
University of Illinois Physical Education Department. It is an outgrowth of
small sectional meetings of swimming pool operators which have been held through-
out the State for the past two years as part of the State Department of Public
Health's swimming pool program. This conference was an effort to enlarge on the
subject matter so as to present a diversified program for all persons who are
interested in the various phases of swimming,

The conference was fortunate in securing outstanding men in their
particular fields and it is hoped that their contributions herein presented will
be a means of further popularizing swimming as a healthful recreation and of
acquainting those interested in the many phases of this sport with more recent
developments,

It is believed that all of the material here presented was of an
exceptional calibre,

If this material aids in a better understanding of not only the
engineering and architectural problems tut also the health, recreational ond

social aspects offered by the modern swimming pool, it will have served its

purpose.

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