SWIMMING DANGERS
INFECTION FROM BATHS COMPLAINTS BY PARENTS Complaints that children attending the Tepid Baths had contracted ear and eye infection were made by two parents at the meeting held last night to elect the Auckland City School Committee. The meeting approved a recommendation that the teaching of swimming and life-saving should be made compulsory in the primary and secondary schools and that teachers should be required to make themselves proficient in these activities so as to be in a position to instruct the children. Two of the women present, who opposed the use of the Tepid Baths for this instruction, gave details of ear and eye infection to their children and asserted that doctors who had attended the children had informed them that many cases of eye. ear and nose troubles had been traced to the Tepid Baths.
It was decided that a deputation from the meeting should wait on the City Council and ask that these complaints be inquired into and that the baths receive more frequent cleaning.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22401, 23 April 1936, Page 12
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