Accidents in Home

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21906, 15 September 1934, Page 7 (Supplement)

Accidents in Home

An oversea# journal records that 700,000 persons fall downstairs every year, adding that accidents in the home have increased 40 per cent since 1925, although all other kinds of accidents have declined There are a number of simple rules by which this toll of home accidents may be eliminated, or at least lessened. It is simply a matter of taking care of little things. Slippery floors, slippery stairs, slippery bath tubs, unsafe chairs, icy steps these are the sources of danger, and a family campaign to correct the danger spots would be an economy in every home

I I that man does not live by bread alqne. From the time of Plato, and earlier, men hare speculated upon the " aim of life " and many have been the goals set before mankind —but all thinkers have agreed that some form of expression, of creativeness —now in the material, now in the spiritual realm —has contained the germ of the true aim. At some stages in human development and in some places, the body and all that pertains to the body have been despised—so it has been whipped and torn and "brought into subjection" to a type of spiritual ideal that itself suffered and which failed to give man any of the noble things for which he strove. Modern research in the branches df both physical and mental well-being has amply demonstrated that truth which both the Greeks and the Romans most clearly apprehended—that mental and physical and moral health and development are dependent one upon the other; indeed that unity demands a harmonious progression. The psychologists insist upon emphasising the effect that a beautifully functioning body has upon sane and noble