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  1. This website provides information for swimmers, pool operators and public health professionals to improve the swimming experience by raising awareness about the spread of recreational water illnesses (RWIs).

  2. Today, only four remain (one of which is the last functioning bath house in Pennsylvania). Preservation Pittsburgh is working to collect their story, protect what remains, and promote Pittsburgh's rich history of public bathing.

    • Suite 5003 Pittsburgh, Pa 15233 USA
    • info@preservationpgh.org
    • (412) 256-8755
  3. Sep 15, 2014 · A large plaque emblazoned with the words “PUBLIC BATH” stood above the grand arch, which was enclosed with an iron fence when not in use. By 1913, the city’s 20 bath houses drew over six million visits per year.

  4. Philadelphia’s public baths began closing through the 1940s; the Gaskill Street Public Baths, the crowning glory of the Philadelphia bathhouse movement, closed in 1942, and the PBA dissolved on January 11, 1950.

  5. Title 28, Chapter 18 Public Swimming and Bathing Places, is the regulation used by the Department to ensure that swimming facilities are compliant with the Public Bathing Law. A copy of Chapter 18 must be posted at each swimming facility.

  6. We believe Pittsburgh's public bath houses and their history provide a unique lens to access our city's industrial past. They connect us back to stories of hygiene, philanthropy, recreation, industry, architecture, and most importantly of all, our own neighborhoods.

  7. Public bathing place—An outdoor or indoor place used for amateur, professional or recreative swimming or bathing whether or not a fee is charged for admission or for the use of the place, exclusive of a bathing place at a private, single-family residence which is used solely by the owner of the residence, his family and their personal guests.

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