Prevention of Water Accidents: A Half Century Reviewed
Year: 1954
Type: article
Abstract: THE DROWNING RATE per 100,000 pop- ulation in the United States has been cut in half in the past 40 years, in spite of the fact that the number of people using aquatic facili- ties has multiplied many times.This remarkable accomplishment in reducing aquatic accidents and spreading the message of water safety can be attributed to many factors-the primary one of which is doubtless the efforts made by the many organizations con- cerned with health, safety, and recreation.At the turn of the century, little was being done to teach people how to swim, or to protect them in any way when they went swimming.Few pools existed.The Young Men's Christian Association was one of the few national organizations that had made any attempt to encourage swimming skills among their membership.With their interest in the field of physical edu- cation it was natural that they should be among the first to include swimming pools in their facilities.The first YMCA pool, 14 by 45 feet, built in 1885 in Brooklyn, was called a swim- ming bath.Detroit followed in 1886 with a
DOI: 10.2307/4588828
Author: Richard L. Brown
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2260857344