Drownings to June ‘horrific’
PA Auckland Figures for drownings so far for 1985 are the worst recorded for at least 10 years, says the Water Safety Council. The 86 deaths to May 31 were 30 more than for the corresponding period last year. The Water Safety Council’s director, Mr Mike Frohlich, described the result as “a horrific sort of figure,” but took some satisfaction from a reduction in pool drownings — down from six to four.
He said that one thing had come out “loud and clear” — whenever there was publicity about a particular form of drowning, there was a reduction.
He pinpointed last year’s debate on private-pool fencing as the prime reason for the reduction. “More than half the people in New Zealand are now covered by a by-law, and those councils which have not got one yet, are just waiting to be tos by
the Government,” said Mr Frohlich. Main increases in drownings were: boating, up from 11 to 22; rivers and streams, 15 to 23; and beaches, 12 to 19.
Mr Frohlich said most of these fatalities occurred during Christmas and New Year.
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