HC Deb 02 August 1972 vol 842 cc152-3W
59. Mr. John Wells

asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the chief constable listing the numbers of children drowned in the stretch of canal between Liverpool—Bootle—Aintree in each year since 1900.

Mr. Carlisle

The Chief Constable of Liverpool and Bootle tells me that information before 1955 is not readily available, but that 30 children have been drowned in this eight miles of canal since then.

Following is a year-by-year breakdown of this figure:

1955 2
1956 1
1957 3
1958 1
1959 6
1960 1
1961 1
1962 2
1963 1
1964 2
1965 6
1966 0
1967 2
1968 1
1969 0
1970 0
1971 0
1972 (to date) 1