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beach and pool guards had never heard of
anyone being caught.
"I finally realized that a drowning per-
son isn't trying to kill you, he's trying to
help himself," Mills said. "He won't hold
onto a log which sinks when he grabs it.
Let yourself be pulled under, and you'll be
released.. .The time isn't far distant
when the theory of holds and breaks will
be as obsolete as barrel-rolling resuscita-
tion."
But if this were so, how could heroic
Scouts fail—and sometimes die—in res-
cue attempts? Mills investigated 340
cases.
"At least 177 boys went fully or par-
tially clothed to make a rescue," he re-
ported. "Swimming with their clothes on
exhausted them. Some Scouts did actually
save a life and then were too weak to get
out. In other cases, diving into the water
caused them to hit the bottom or under-
water objects. Close to 75 percent of in-
land water is opaque. Even where water is
clear, nobody can judge its depth when
looking down from a height."
So Mills revised the Lifesaving merit
badge. Scouts (and Scouters) were drilled
to undress fast before attempting rescues;
to enter the water by jumping; and to
submerge if someone grabbed at them.
In the next 20 years he saw more than
2,000 reports of successful rescues by
Scouts, including dozens who were weak
swimmers. Only one Scout lost his life in
a rescue attempt.
"He struck his head on a submerged
auto as he dove to assist two members of
his troop in trouble," Mills said. "Both
boys were saved by another Scout who
threw them a rope."
Fred Mills made it part of his job to
inspect Boy Scout camps. He wanted to
find out why illness was fairly common at
some of them. "Usually it was either
dirty dishes or too many Scouts in a
tent," he recalled.
He taught camp directors to rinse
dishes in boiling water and to let them dry
in their own heat instead of using dish
towels. And he helped substitute small
two-bed tents for big old-style wall tents.
Moreover, because Scouts were arriving
at camp with contagious ills and spread-
ing them, he instituted Scouting's system
of medical rechecks for all campers as
they arrived.
As he toured, Mills noticed that many
camps possessed only one canoe, kept
padlocked because it was considered too
dangerous for any but the strongest and
most skilled adults. This was because ca-
noeists in parks were capsizing often and
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