Infant swimming
Sir,—H. E. Fyfe and Chris May appear to have missed the point of my letter in which I did not criticise teaching small children to swim. I objected to the practice of forcing “babes in arms” under and through water in public pools on the pretext that this will instil confidence at a later date. However automatic their limb movements are and however carefully designed the procedure is, it is still cruel — we certainly live in a mad world. I presume that after half an hour in the pool the baby is stripped of its wet clothing and showered off, or do the mothers do this in the bath on their return home i.e., to remove chlorine and bugs? Are instructors qualified to analyse the effect of such treatment on young babies? The daily bath is sufficient introduction to this element.—Yours, etc., G. J. PROCTER. November 2, 1981.
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