Show there i nere L Is its no water in lungs of drowned ag j j A k J this statement is made by L I 1 E palmer who will conduct the red cross training school in first aid and life saving at salt apke city from may ith to any competent swimmer who Is interested in qualifying as a red cross life saying saving examiner Is 13 eligible to attend this training school and learn the latest methods of red crots cross firby aid and water safety among the ilie many things in which will be given Is the prone press pressure ure of artificial respiration considered the best means of resuscitating drowned persons people people should get over the idea of rolling a person on a barrel to rescue him from drowning states palmer the water does not go to the lungs the same apparatus that keeps the food from entering tnt ering ther lungs keeps the water from doing so go one cannot breathe and swallow at the same flame time A drowned person Is merely a suffocated one hla his wind has haa been cut off by the enforced continuous swallowing of water but the water Is in the stomach not in the lungs so th that a t any effort to remove water from the lungs such as aa by rolling 0 on n a barrel Is a waste of time the best method to restore breathing in is to press down on the pat patients lents short ribs then release them the arms should be snapped down and back at a rate ot of about twelve to fifteen times a minute this should be kept up until the patient begins to breathe normally every person should realize that his own two hands are the most effective instruments there are tor for restoring life to a suffocated person classes will be held at the deseret gymnasium salt lake city each e evening from 7 to 10 inquiries should to be addressed add essed to the salt lake chapter american red cross boston building |