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Thursday, July 19, 1973
NO CHLORINE "POISONING" AT POOL
Four boys who were admitted to Queen Elizabeth Hospital yesterday
after swimming in the Kowloon Tsai swimming pool were not suffering from
chlorine poisoning.
The Medical and Health Department said today that their disorders
All were suffering from
had "nothing whatsoever to do with chlorine".
a mild cough and slight fever.
Two of the four children have now been discharged and the other
two will be discharged tomorrow.
Commenting on some reports that the children were "poisoned"
by chlorine in the water, a spokesman for the Urban Council pointed out
that the average chlorine content in the pool's water for the whole yesterday
was 1.2 parts per million, which was well within the safety level.
He explained that the danger level was "many times greater."
The level of chlorine we have in the water in all our Urban
Council swiming pools is normally between 1.0 and 2.0 parts per million,"
the spokesman said.
The water in these pools is examined every hour on the hour during
the times when the pools are open to the public."
The spokesman said there is a constant circulation of water and
the chlorine is injected into it in a gaseous form which dilutes very
quickly. This further eliminates the possibility of anyone absorbing
concentrated amounts of chlorine anywhere in the pool.
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