HOUSEHOLD PERILS.
.; —■ •—' - J EXTRAORDINARY FIGURES. [ ' . LONDON, May 7. "Eight hundred -women aro killed I yearly in England and Wales by falling • down stairs in their homes, and a thou- . sand, are killed by falling over buckets and broom-handles," said Miss Margaret Bondfield, ex-Minister for Labour, addressing the National Safety Con-. t- gress. . '. _ "Koad sense, which modern trallic i has developed, should be paralleled by similar sense in the homes,'.' she den clared. Another speaker urged that n furniture makers should avoid sharp edges on corners, oh which children injured themselves in the dark.
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Press, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20551, 20 May 1932, Page 8
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