ACCIDENTS CAUSE MOST CHILD DEATHS
GENEVA—A recent report published bv the World Health Organisation indicates that accidents cause more deaths than disease among children and adolescents. Apart from transport accidents, the most frequent causes of death in the countries surveyed were falls, drowning fire and explosions and poisonin that order. Children from 1 to 4 are the main victims of poisoning and burns, the age group 15 to 40 is most liable to machine accidents and that from 15 to 2d to accidents from firearms. Fire accidents involve mainly children from 1 to 10 - • uk In the 18 countries reviewed. 8410 boys died in one year from infectious and parasitic diseases as compared with 13.414 who were killed in accidents.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 28008, 30 June 1956, Page 11
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