\2\ ZWARTKOPS BORE AND THERMAL SPRING. 



experiment, and on the suggestion of the medical profession, 

 four baths were erected near the spring, which had the effect 

 of tempting one or two rheumatic subjects from Port Elizabeth. 

 Their report of the visit was so satisfactory that the visitors 

 increased rapidly, until last year the number of baths taken was 

 7,000 and the visitors about 3,000, patients coming from all parts 

 of the Cape Province as well as from the Free State. Transvaal 

 and Rhodesia. 



A few more bath rooms were added, but the accommodation 

 is at times far short of requirements. The site of the bore is, 

 unfortunately, only a few feet above high water mark, so that 

 it is not advisable to erect any permanent structure there. A 

 new site on an adjacent rising ground is being negotiated for, 

 where it is contemplated building a properly-equipped sanatorium 

 on modern lines, to which the water will be carried in properly 

 insulated pipes on an approved system, which will permit the 

 water and gases to be delivered into the baths as at present, 

 without any contact with the atmosphere and with very small 

 loss of temperature. 



Meanwhile the lessee of the baths receives into his house, 

 which is close to the bore, a few boarders, and so also does the 

 Zwartkops Hotel, but the accommodation is very limited, and the 

 applications are far in excess of what can be provided for. It 

 is hoped that about 40 bedrooms will be included in the new 

 scheme and 16 bath rooms under the same roof, which will be 

 increased as requirements demand. 



The subject of the curative properties of this water does not 

 fall within the scope of this article. Patients suffering from 

 serious complaints other than rheumatism and kindred ailments 

 have been wonderfully benefited and have gone home apparently 

 cured. 



Several analyses of the water have been made, but only after 

 it had been conveyed a considerable distance. No tests have as 

 yet been made at the bore itself, where the best results are likely 

 to be had; so that there is still something to be learned about 

 this spring and its attendant gases. 



The following, however, may be given as to the properties 

 of the water as compared with the well-known waters of 

 Caledon : — 



Zwartkops. Caledon. 



Grains Grains 



per Gallon. per Gallon. 



Sodium Chloride . . . . 25.57 Potassium Chloride . . 2.81 



Sodium Sulphate 61 Sodium Chloride .... 1.74 



Calcium Carbonate . . 1.57 Calcium Chloride . . . . 1.31 



Magnesium Sulphate . . 2.12 Calcium Carbonate. ... .21 



Magnesium Carbonate 2.21 Magnesium Carbonate .58 



Ferrous Carbonate. . .. t.86 Magnesium Chloride .. .27 



Ferrous Carbonate. . .. 1.93 



Temperature 130 F. Temperature 120 F. 



