DANGER OF BATHING WHEN HEATED.
The great danger of entering cold water when the body is in a heated condition was strongly illustrated during the late pic-nio (says the " Kumara Times")- One of the boys who had been wrestling feeling hot and uncomfortable from the sports in which he hadbeen engaged, took advantage of the close proximity of tho Teremakau river to bathe. After being in tho water some few moments and again I landing on the bank ho complained to his companions that he felt sick and queer, and before he could resume his clothing he was attaoked with cramp. Fortunately Dr. Acheson was on the ground, and the boy at once received medical attention with a beneficial result. Had the lad been seized with the oramp a few minutes sooner when in the water, the probabilities are that we should have had to record another death from drowning in the Teremakau river, as, although assistance was close at hand, it could not possibly have been rendered in time. It ia to j bo hoped this will act as a warning to those I who are in the habit of bathing when the body is over-heated.
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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2147, 12 January 1881, Page 3
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