
78 - The Dark Secret of American Swimming Pools
The Dollop with Dave Anthony and Gareth Reynolds
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Do You Know What's Going On?
Edwin Foster, a Northwestern medical school graduate who was working at the YMCA, tested the water and discovered it was contaminated. "This was the first major threat to the business income of the Y because it was known that cholera and typhoid were transmitted through water," he says. So nude swimming was enforced to make sure the pool didn't break. 'I'm going to stick with the wool plan on this'
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