Downstream

some drowned while bathing,
others were carried over a
sluice in a boat and some
perished after recklessly
leaping from a skiff at a weir.
In 1859, after four
undergraduates had died ‘in
rapid succession’, Dr Acland,
Regius Professor of
Medicine, called a meeting of
‘boating men and others’. ‘Of
course a great deal of
nonsense was talked,’
reported one attendee, but it