Dangerous Waters
Victorian Decorum, Swimmer Safety, and the Establishment of Public Bathing Facilities in London (Canada)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12218679 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Kossuth (Schlumberger (Ireland), corresponding author), Robert S Kossuth |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 796-815 |
| Publication date | 2005-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of the History of Sport (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-3367 • E-ISSN: 1743-9035 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09523360500143422 |
| OpenAlex | W2089495207 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The question of providing the citizens of London, Ontario, Canada with public bathing facilities emerged in the late 1860s and persisted through the early 1920s. Initially concerns over the financial costs of such a venture trumped the need to protect public morals and ensure the physical safety of bathers. Not until the first decade of the 1900s did serious interest arise within local government to provide public facilities, prompted primarily by concerns over the moral and physical safety of the city's children. Whereas concerns related to the provision of public bathing facilities are relatively well documented for larger Canadian cities including Montreal and Toronto, attempts to secure public space to bathe in smaller centres such as London provide clear evidence of how broader social forces, including the critical influence of the playgrounds movement, served to promote swimming and bathing in Canadian towns and cities after the turn of the twentieth century
Bathing · Decorum · Government (linguistics · Political science · Public space · American Environmental and Regional History · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical Art and Culture Studies · History · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2021 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |