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‘all ranks of competent
swimmers’, most with life-
saving awards, including
members of the police, Sea
Scouts and swimming clubs
attached to Greenwich baths.
First aid had already been
given to ‘numbers of children
who have cut their feet while
paddling on the foreshore’, as
well as to a boy who ‘had his
head cut with a swimming
bucket’. A few years earlier a
boy had been saved from