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THE "HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1938.
Biggest Danger Is
In the Home
TWO thousand, seven
nine
hundred and thirty- and
women men, children in Great Britain are going to get hurt to- day. Seriously, some of them. Slightly,
others.
But hurt, all of them.
By working in the mine? By driving on the roads? No; these are comparatively safe pursuits. These 2,739 will
get hurt just by being around the home.
For the home spells danger.
At a guess, you would say that (Acts of War excepted) the roads are the greatest source of physical danger in this hazard- haunted world of ours. It is not
30.
Accidental deaths in Britain every year number 18,000; and more than half of them happen In or around the home.
The figuro is official. About non- fatal accidents there are no com- parable statistics, But
the experts estimate that the domestic ratio 13 similar to that for Industry; 200 non-fatal accidents for every Tatal one.
So every year there are many more thanı 1,000,000 accidents rated as "domestic." And 365 into 1,000,000
Is, near enough, 2,739.
"Baby swallows safety-pln... "Boy killed by umbrella.
""Girl swallows pen-shooter..." You have seen those intriguing little para- graphs in which the newspapers record the odder accidents.
Sometimes they are tragic, like the constantly recurring deaths of small children through scalds and burns.
Sometimes they are very funny, Ilke the story of the man whose beard became inextricably in-.. volved in the front wheel of his bicycle, and could not be removed until he had become once more clean-shaven.
Frightful or farcical, there they a million reminders every aro:- year that "accidents will happen," and will go on happening 80 long as we are content not to bother.
to
It is so easy even for us who have grown wise with age to alip on a loose mat. It is ao tempting that piece of faulty wir- ignore Ing-until the son of the house has a sharp shock to reward his in- quiring mind.
A loose handrail on the stairs, a window-sill too low and unpro- tected, hot water bolleza in bad
THE
When we get to building nursery schools as a matter of course toe shall not have children scrambling round their mothers'. feet, on
washing day... and facing the danger of scalus,...
By S. E. R. WYNNE
condition. rotten mash-cords not renewed...
Eo the recorda pile up: 4,000 deaths from falls reported every year, 800 more from burns, 800 from drowning. 400 (nearly all children) from scolds, 400 from Buffocation, 100 from fires, more from poisoning, explosions, awal- lowing "foreign bodies"
Women suffer more than men, because they spend more time in the home. Children under five are most often victims of scalding fatalities. Girls in their 'teens are burned most often because of inexperience in cooking..
Only about 15 people a year die from bad food, only a few more But take poison by mistake, nearly 70 people die by falling out of bed, most of them women, and elderly. And, talking about beds, the 400 suffocations every year are mostly bables: because they ́sleep" in the same beds as their parents. Here's something Germany can teach us: they forbid this by law. On the roads the accident and
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death rates are kept down by wholesale distribution of the High- way Code, by Bellsba Beacons, by allocation of funds for road im- provements.
We can omulate the methods of those who wage war on accidents In the factories, and on the road: by spending wisely and cam- paigning vigorously.
It is, of course, more difficult to get at people in their homes. You cannot insist on thơ; re- pairing of a broken flex in the kitchen as you can on the fenc- ing-off of a dangerous lathe in the factory. But you can still do something about it.
In industry accident preven- tion is organised; and in indus- tries where it is well organised the accident rates have been cut
in five years by as much as 50 per cent.
Likewise in the home: there is much that could be done to organ- ise accident prevention.
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After all, it is fairly simple.ne year or shorter periods in Lore People have only to be taught to keep away from the edge of the elif, to stay on the horse, to turn off the main bofore they strike a match, to unload arearms before they are cleaned, to keep old, clec-. trical appliances out of wet bath-
robins.
Even in what we smugly call modern
homes we rarely plan for safety: putting adequate lighting on staircases, avolding Hoor-level atops, installing fireguards, having switches out of reach of roving little hands, And in homes that make no pretence at modernity the risk is increased a thousand- fold.
Poverty, too, plays its part. There is less chance of the newest baby being scalded to death in the nursery of one of the stately homes of England than there is in a slum tenement, where in a single room a whole family cooks and eats, and sleeps and lives.
There is less chance of same- In Industry, the factory Inspec- thing going wrong when the house- tors-overworked though they are wife has servants to assist her -force reactionary factory and than when she has a dozen Jobs workshop owners to observe the, to do at once and only two hands laws for the protection of workers to do them with--and is quite (and now there is a new Factory probably avertired and underfed.
ես Act inadequate."«perhaps,"
Bocially, this problem has im- better than no new Act at all-to
plications which, co far, wo tighten penalties).
Feem to have avoided.
But accidents in the home→→→ they are nobody's business. Chil- dren die in a Bro while their parents are at work. A baby falls from the arms of its twelve-year- old sister and dies. A boy of eight knocks a pan of bolling water over himself and diés,
Shocking, we hay, politely rais- ing our eyebrows; but what can be done?
Well, we can use a little sense. We can cease tolerating as Inevit able accidents that can be pro- vented
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around their mothers' feet on Authorised Capital washing day-and we shall not subscribed and Paid-up have to record that nearly 400 chil- Reserve hund ............. dren die every year from scalds.
When we have razed the last alum wo shall not have an appal- ling death roll from burns and falls and suffocation.
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campaign horrite frightening people by warnings of impending calamities. But would that be more disastrous than the present complete indif- ference?
Well, perhaps not complete in- difference. There is the National Safety Firat Association which achfeves. wonders considering its limited finances. There are en- lightened municipalities which do excellent publicity work within re- stricted areas.
But so far as Whitehall is con- cerned, the problem presented by a militon accidents a year is no- body's baby.
But one day, perhaps, Whitehall
bo persuaded to lead a national campaign and the ngures that record the everyday threat to life and limb will come tumbling down.
The sooner that campaign comen the batter it will be for all of us. I for one, would rather be accl- dent-conscious than approach a gas-leak with a lighted match- and be unconscious afterwards. . .
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126
126
over
10 Unpleasant but useful illness
(0)
12 Wouldn junk-builder get his
wood from him? (9).
13 Store from 8 down (5),
14 Famous Bghter (4).
10 Feeling (7).
19 Monday's dish perhaps (7).
21 This English statesman was der-
tainly not a Red (4).
24 "Sedan" (onag.) (6).
25 No, this view on the stage need
27
not be of some waterfall (9).
This may mean parochial power (0).
29 Many motorisla find this not an
easy time for driving (0).
20 Modern artist (0).
10 Rude off Ryde perhaps (8).
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DOWN
takes art at first to make, this food (0),
2 A military formation familiar
to pressmen (0).
3 Wash (8).
4 This worker is always more tidy
(7).
6 Exelling 10 nèrom perliapa (0),
7. Obviously they are not all sane
in this lalani (8).
Presumably thin method of nd- vertisement makes wealth (0),
20
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11 Formerly on a single occasion
(4).
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advises putting off what is bod¦ (0).
10 One of the USA. (8), -
with
20 Well this fuse is prosperous (4). 21 There, sands might be popular
with punters but not others, on the water (?).. 22 Scanty (0).
23 This comes from the tze-ise (0),
20 This sort of salute'always has
a report afterwards (5).
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