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July 1942. "Florence, Alabama. Swimming at a Boy Scout camp." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the U.S. Foreign Information Service. View full size.
The lifeguard platform is conspicuously vacant! But the biggest concern, at that time, was polio You got it from swimming in lakes, rivers, and unchlorinated pools, according to belief at that time. My brother got polio, at age 8, in 1941. (He recovered, thank heavens). My mother always swore he caught it by swimming in a notoriously polluted river in my town.
[Entirely possible -- poliovirus is transmitted through contact with you-know-what. Dave]
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