PERILS IN HOMES
REFORMS REQUIRED.
IN PLANNING AND FURNITURE.
LONDON, May 7.
“Eight hundred women are killed yearly in England and Wales by falling down stairs in their homes, and a thousand are killed by falling over buckets and broom-handles,” said Miss Margaret Bondfield, ex-Minister of Labour, addressing the National Safety Congress. “Road sense, which modern traffic has developed, should be paralleled by similar sense in the homes,” she declared.
Another speaker urged that furniture makers should avoid sharp edges on corners, on which children injured themselves in the dark.
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Waipukurau Press, Volume XXVIII, Issue 123, 19 May 1932, Page 7
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