PRICE TOO HIGH

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 154, 27 December 1935, Page 10

PRICE TOO HIGH

Every country: is finding the price of accidents too great in terms of human life and suffering. Recently compiled figures from . the United States reveal that- accidents took! a s • toll of. 101,000 lives last year. The. • 9,821,000 disabling injuries suffered by Americans in . the. same period cost 2,400,000 dollars in medical expense, insurance, and loss of wages. Property damage, including buildings razed by accidental fires, Yeached the staggering total of 3,500,000,000 dollars. More, than half of the accidents reported occurred in'the home. Estimates based on past experience indicate . that. 5,184,500 persons will be injured in household mishaps this year. Twice as = many will meet accidental death-at home as will succumb from accidents of all kinds while at work. The most ■" important causes, of fatalities athome, are falls and' burns. Nearly'half-of the falls occur in bedrooms, a majority of the burns-in kitchens. More people die from slipping on floors, rugs, arid stairs, falling while getting' in or out of bed. or while, sitting ■ down, in or getting-up from ..chairs from, all other home cause?