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sides adjacent to the pool and every side-walk shall be laid to fall away from the pool and drained to channels laid to falls.
(d) Swimming pools intended for simultaneous (GH- by both sexes shall be provided with separate dressing room accommodation, water closets, shower baths and fool baths for each sex and there shall be no means of direct access from the amenities provided for one sex to that provided for the other sex.
(e) There shall be no means of arcess for bathers to or from the pool except by passing through a dressing room.
(f) Water closet accommodation shall be not less than one water closet and one urinal for every twenty-five males and one water closet for every twenty-five females, calculated on the maximun numbers which the pool will accommodate allow- ing thirty square feet of superficial water area, per person. Every water closet and urinal sball be so situated as to be available to bathers only of the sex for which it is intended.
(g) Shower baths and foot baths shall be provided at the rate of one shower bath and one foot bath for every forty persons calculated in the manner prescribed in the preceding paragraph, and shall be so situated as to compel intending bathers to pass through a shower bath and a foot bath before entering the pool.
(h) Separate entrances and accommodation shall be provided for spectators and there shall be no direct means of access from such accommodation to the pool.
( Adequate water closet and urinal accommodation shall be provided for the use of spectators and such accommodation shall be separate from that provided for the use of bathers.
(1) The floors of dressing rooms shall be of imper vious materials easily accessible in all parts for the purpose of cleansing and shall be drained to the satisfaction of the Council. All corners between walls and floors shall be rounded off with cement mortar or other impervious material.
(a) It shall be lawful for the Council, in respect of any particular swimming pool, to waive the fulfilment of or modify the requirements of this by-law, if the Council is satisfied that compliance therewith is impracticable or that modification is required in respect of such swimming pool.
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Pumps and filtration plants including filtering material Filtration. and coagulants shall be to the satisfaction of the Council.
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ments as to water.
(1) (a) When judged by bacterial tests, the water Require- admitted into a swimming pool shall conform to the standard of purity adopted for the local public water, namely, B. Coli absent in 100 6.0.
(b) The water shall be purified by filtration, aeration and disinfection. If chlorination disinfection is used, there shall be present at all times in the water not less than 0.2 and not more than 0.5 parts per million of free chlorine and the pool shall be emptied and cleansed at least once in every three months.
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(c) Whilst a swimming pool is in use by bathers the water shall be completely changed by circulation through the filters not less than once in every four hours in the case of a covered pool, and not less than once in every six hours in the case of an open pool.
(2) It shall be lawful for the Council, in respect of any particular swimming pool, to waive the fulfilment of or modify the requirements of this by-law, if the Council is satisfied that compliance therewith is impracticable or that modification is required in respect of such swimming pool.
7. No person shall spit in or near any swimming pool. No spitting. Notices to this effect in English letters and in Chinese characters shall be conspicuously displayed to the satisfaction of the Council,
8. No person sball enter any swimming pool while know- Contagious, ingly suffering from any cutaneous, infectious or contagious etc.,
diseases. disease. Notices to this effect, in English letters and in Chinese characters, shall be conspicuously displayed to the satisfaction of the Council in all dressing rooms.
9. All towels and garments supplied for the use of bathers Towels, etc. shall be thoroughly cleansed and sterilised before issue.
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