ACCIDENTS TO AGED
Road Injuries ‘Far’ Fewer
Although the number of road accidents causing injury was well publicised, it was often forgotten that the number of accidental injuries requiring hospital treatment for elderly persons was far greater, said Dr. L. F. Jepson, the Christchurch Medical Officer of Health, last evening. In a talk to the Christchurch Diabetic Society, Dr. Jepson said that in 1963, 5500 persons were injured badly enough in road accidents to require hospital treatment In the same year 7600 elderly persons were injured in accidental falls.
Dr. Jepson said accidents were becoming an increasingly difficult problem. They now rated fourth among the principal causes of death in New Zealand, after heart disease, cancer, and cerebral hemorrhage. Poliomyelitis had been completely conquered in New Zealand because of a vaccine, but the conquest of accidents was much more a matter for the individual. This was becoming much more noticeable in all fields of health. The individual was largely responsible for his own health. For example, everyone could choose whether to smoke cigarettes. W
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30886, 20 October 1965, Page 1
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174ACCIDENTS TO AGED Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30886, 20 October 1965, Page 1
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