By the early 1900s, how many people drowned each year in the U.S.?
Correct answer: Estimated 9,000

Sassy
In early times not many parents taught their kids to swim. Some would just throw them in and say, ‘sink or swim “

Miss Sue
Sassy, Yeah, they didn't have birth control pills back then.

I am not a number.
Maestro13, is the number of essential or purposeful drowning about right?

Maestro13
Still too many needless or accidental drownings.