Water safety
Sir, —As the mother of a three-year-old, I have been most distressed by recent drowning accidents. The tremendous attraction of water to toddlers and little children, and the speed with which they can disappear from a parent’s side, are frightening. The sooner any method of resuscitation (shaking the child by the heels head down, for example) can be started, the better are the chances that breathing will resume. A child can be plucked from the water, held face down, and sharply tilted with head down, feet up; then sharply tilted the opposite way, with feet down and head up, as the rescuer walks from the
water. Any method is better than none, but every parent must know what to do in a drowning emergency so that precious time will not be wasted. A few minutes spent learning expired air resuscitation may save a child this summer. — Yours, etc., DIONY YOUNG. November 1, 1972.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33064, 3 November 1972, Page 8
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