| Show I 1 J 40 of Pools Pook Unfit Under l f New Utah ta Law Lavt c t By A A. A. A W. W FE j jAn An n estimated 40 of t to g p pools pol ol We yera ver classified classified- as II Monday under neW engineering and sanitation re regulations aU f d by y the state board of health The pools will not noto nobe be e all allowed wed to reopen ne next t spring and summer unie unless brought up h health alth standards according to an an an announcement sri sri- noun ement at the office of Dr Welby W. W Bigelow igelow acting state tat health commissioner Th The board board headed by Dr DrA A A. Cyril Callister r physician and surgeon sur Sur-I geon of Salt Lake City adopted at its last meeting final f fi al sections sections' ns of the new regulations de dealing with engineering and structural Job UnderWay Under Way Sections dealing strictly with sanitation en adopted previously by the board and have already been invoked in some cases of ot alleged sanitation violations said health officials The job of notifying all pool owners and operators operator including mu municipal cipal corporations on the status of their properties under the new la law has started said Lynn M. M Thatcher dir director o of the engi ngi- and sanitation division state health department l The limited facilities of the state health department will be concentrated concentrated concen concen- first on known and sus aus aus- substandard pools estimated nat ed Cd t to be about 50 allowing as aa much tJ time as possible for decisions on improvements improvement or abandonment before next summer explained health officials Budget Limited Noting that present facilities of the department include but one ono inspector for each six counties of the state tate and a limited travel budget Mr Thatcher Howard M t Hurst assistant director of tho the division and E H. H Bramhall director tor of the laboratories division who will bear the burden of ot enforcing en en- en forcing the tho new regulations said aid Christensen Jensen Jensen and was a sen- sen action on borderline pools will have to wait for fOI the present Improper construction of ot a a swimming pool i is 13 sheer heer waste of ot of money which in the c case o of public funds runds is doubly inexcusable Mr Thatcher said He estimated that at least 25 pools in lathe inthe the state never r were con con constructed properly and recalled the pool ool at Washington school in Ogden which was recently abandoned aban alma and d filled with grav gravel L LUr Ur Urge o Advisers It I Is Is' suggested that pool o owners owners own own- ers after receiving copies caVies of the he new regulations take immediate immediato i engineering and sanitation defects from their pools Mr Thatcher added The biggest problem he health officials of- of t. t and pool pooi owners will face is ish h improvement provement of ot the old fill and draw typo type pools Patterned after similar regulations gUI ions tiona of the United States public health service and six voluminous than Its It 26 year old td predecessor the new new rules rule coin corn com is now being being- printed printed- r |
