Show pool operators warned by board public statements by swimming pool operators concerning state board of health approval of conditions at their pools regardless of the nature of reports concerning bacteriological analysis of pool water have not been authorized by the state board of health dr J L jones state health commissioner warned swimming pool operators today such buell statements which have been appearing with increasing frequency recently according to lynn I 1 M 1 thatcher director of tile the division of public health engineering and sanitation of the state board of health are not based on tact fact because the state board of health does doea not and will not auth orize such general approval tile the tact fact that a single bacteriological Jo analysis shows satisfactory conditions is not a basis for telling the public that any given pool Is satisfactory mr thatcher said many other conditions including pool equipment and sanitation of surroundings are extremely important and many of these items are known to be not completely satisfactory at some pools now operating the state board of health will be forced dr jones said to take action against swimming pool operators who in the future make inake public statements to the effect that their pools have been specifically approved by the state board of health |