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To the Editor: Dr. Modell's discussion of drowning (Jan. 28 issue)¹ was extremely informative. In the article he concluded that prevention is the best solution to the problem of drowning among children. Unfortunately, there is no evidence that early swimming lessons prevent young children from drowning². If an adult caretaker thought that a young child had been "drown-proofed" by swimming lessons, the risk of drowning might actually increase, since the adult's vigilance when the child was around water might be less. There still seems to be no substitute for careful adult supervision of children around water (from buckets and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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