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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 290, 8 December 1868, Page 2

Some excellent instructions, drawn up by Drs Christian and Sievekiug for the guidance of bathers, has just heen issued : by the Royal Humane Society. The public are counselled to avoid bathing. within . two hours after a meal, when exhausted by-fcitigue, -or when the body is cooling after perspiration. To chill tbe body by -~ standing uncovered on a bank or in a boat, alter leaving the water, is condemned; and . bathers are cautioned against remaining rtoo long in the water. The vigorous and • strong, the instructions add, may bathe • early in the morning before partaking of any food; the young and weak had better • bathe three hours after a meal — the best time being after breakfast. Those who .are subject to attacks of giddiness tr-faiut- j *ness, who suffer from palpitation, or who shave any other sou-e of discomfort about the heart, should not bathe iv cold water .at all without consulting their medical -adviser. " 'Learn- to swim,' and 'Dont make a fool j of yourself iv.t he water,' ate two terse and ! cogent rules; The number of persons, and especially of young ladies, who have recently been drowned while bathing is deplorable. It may be safely affirmed that, even if one-third -of these casualties be cau«ed by unavoidable accideut, another third hnve been dye to ignorance of the very rudiments of swimming, and the remaining/rhfrd_. sto ' the .. foolhaidiuess and vanity pf bathers, who, trying to do clever tricks and feats, exhaust their- energies and strain their muscles, till a chill- comes, and lhey .^ewi^d by oramp, whoa they aink ' \ .- '