HOME SAFETY FIRST
Seven hundred thousand persons fall downstairs every year, says the “Ladies’ Home Journal.” The number of Americans injured in all kinds of home accidents every 12 months would practically equal the combined populations of Detroit, Los Angeies, Cleveland and Baltimore.
Home accidents have increased 10 per cent, since 1925, though all other kinds of accidents have declined. As a matter of fact, the number of deaths from home accidents is only slightly less than the total from motor smashups, and among older persons t ills account for more than threequarrers of all deaths.
There are a number of simple rules by which this toll of home accidents may be eliminated, or at riast lessened. It is simply a matter of taking care of little things. Slippery floors, slippery stairs, slippery bathtubs, teetery 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. Let’s start to-day.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19801, 17 May 1934, Page 12
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162HOME SAFETY FIRST Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19801, 17 May 1934, Page 12
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