According to the Lancaster Report text, “Of the 3.4
million sports injuries reported by emergency rooms
in 1977 to the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission
the general category of ‘Swimming (pools, diving, scuba)’
rated number nine... behind the categories of ‘Football’,
‘Basketball’, ‘Motorbikes’, ‘Playground Equipment’,
and Kickball, Stickball, Tetherball, Other Ball Games’.
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