CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 73, 23 September 1922, Page 12

CAUSED BY NEGLIGENCE

NEW YORE'S CASUALTY LISTS.

According to a survey made by the Safety Institute of America, 235 persons in New York City lost their lives during June, either at home or in the street, through carelessness or recklessness. The institute states also that for every person killed through negligence 25 are injured. Some examples of the way these people have died are given :— An elderly woman stepped into her bath without first testing the temperature of the water. She died of scalds and 6hock. . ..

■ Several persons were killed or- injured through diving into shallow water. One man took his medicine in the dark. He picked up the wrong bottle, and died of carbolic acid poisoning.

A mother allowed her child to play with a stove bolt. The child swallowed it, with fatal consequences.

An infant left, unattended in bed entangled itself in the bedclothes and was, suffocated. ....

One man fell from the. gallery of a theatre into the orchestra. Others fell from windows, railway platforms, docks, and through skylights.

A motor-lorry driver crawled under his lorry without properly attending to the clutch. The vehicle ran over him.

Another man who crawled under his car after applying a jack to lift it was crashed to death through the jack slipping. Only accidents in which someone was shown to bo negligent-have been included, in the survey. ,