THE RECREATION SERVICE DIVISION 733 



difficult. Although several charges are made for lost keys and tags, the 

 expense and bother involved in replacement have been so great in public 

 installations that the practice of having spring locks on the doors and an 

 attendant with a master key in charge of opening the lockers has sometimes 

 been adopted. The basket method of handling clothes is objectionable to 

 some patrons on account of the mussing of clothing in folding to fit the 

 basket. The advantage of this method of caring for clothes is that it allows 

 more patrons to be accommodated in a locker room of a given size. It should 

 be easy for the attendant to see every one in the locker room as he passes 

 down the main aisle. This is necessary to prevent the hiding of sneak 

 thieves and the committing of annoyances by a few objectionable persons. 



Care of suits and towels. It is desirable in artificial pools that all suits 

 and towels be supplied and cared for by the management. If individually 

 owned suits are used, they should be of prescribed style and material, and 

 should be laundered and stored at the pool by the management. Bathing 

 suits for women should be of the simplest type, made of wool or cotton of 

 undyed material or tested for fastness of color. At the artificial pools both 

 sexes should be required to wear bathing caps. When an indoor pool is 

 used exclusively by men, nude bathing is usually required. A frequent 

 requirement concerning stocks of towels and bathing suits is to insist on 

 a sufficient supply to allow twenty-four hours' storage of clean suits. Suits 

 and towels should be washed in hot water and soap, rinsed thoroughly and 

 dried each time they are used. When they are brought back to be issued 

 again they should be handled carefully, not allowed to lie in baskets or 

 on shelves which have held dirty suits. Neither should they be issued at a 

 window from which dirty towels and suits have been taken out. 



Admission fees and charges. Where admission fees are charged they 

 usually run from five and ten cents per child to fifteen, twenty and twenty- 

 five cents per adult. In most instances five cents is charged for towels; ten 

 cents for suits. In some cities, the charge for suits and towels is included in 

 the admission fee. 



Instructions to bathers. Suitable placards, embodying personal regula- 

 tions and instructions, should be posted conspicuously in the pool room or 

 enclosure and in dressing rooms and offices. The following instructions are 

 usually included in such notices: 



1. All bathers shall use shower baths, including soap, 4. Women shall wear caps while in plunge. 



if necessary, before entering the plunge. (The plunge 5. Persons not dressed for bathing shall not be al- 



is not intended as a bathtub.) lowed on walks surrounding plunge, and bathers shall 



2. Bathers who have been outside the bathhouse or not be allowed in places provided for spectators, 

 plunge enclosure shall not re-enter without passing 6. No persons suffering from a fever, cold, cough or 

 through a footbath and using a shower. inflamed eyes shall be allowed the use of the plunge. 



3. Bathers shall be forbidden to wear private bath- (These disorders may be transmitted to others.) 



ing suits that are not properly laundered; light colored 7. No person with sores or other evidence of skin 



or undyed wool is suggested. disease, or who is wearing a bandage of any kind, shall 



