Fatal accidents to the number of 7800 occur annually in British homes, some of the contributing causes being open kitchen fires, high windows and cupboards, stairs without handrails and steep, dark cellar steps. To bathe a Temple deity, the Maharajah of Travancore, recently led thousands of his followers on a threemile walk down to the sea, marching at their head, barefooted, stripped to the waist, and brandishing a drawn sword. <
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Southland Times, Issue 22378, 18 July 1934, Page 2
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