 Shortly following the 10 March 1917, publication "Regulamento do estabelecimento hidrológico das Águas Minerais de Melgaço" (on the hydrological condition of the mineral waters of Melgaço), there was an article in the "Jornal de Melgaço" (21 July) by Gregório Fernandes that referred to a dusty access road to the incomplete thermal spa, that was unforested.The "buvette" (pumping pavilion) was still unfinished and the sanitary conditions of the spa was "little hygienically recommendable" and was missing a washroom.By August, the management presented to the "Repartição de Minas" a plan to improve the thermal spa, under the authorship of engineer Couto dos Santos, that included the expansion of the Quinta do Peso lodgings, in accommodate 350 visitors, the construction of a casino, a gymnasium and hydrostatic lake served by swimming huts.