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THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1975

→THE CITIZENS OF TOMORROW WILL BE CITIZENS OF A MORE COMPLEX AND MORE DIFFICULT WORLD THAN THAT OF YESTERDAY.

→SOCIAL CONTACTS ARE BECOMING MORE FREQUENT AND MORE VARIED, AND CHILDREN WILL NEED TO LEARN TO MIX WITH A GREATER VARIETY OF TYPES OF INDIVIDUAL THAN THEIR PARENTS PROBABLY KNEW AND TO UNDER- STAND THE POINT OF VIEW OF PEOPLE IN OTHER LANDS DESIDES THEIR OWN.

+THEY WILL NEED, MOREOVER, TO ACCOMMODATE THEMSELVES TO SUDDEN CHANGES OF PROCESS AND METHOD IN THE OCCUPATIONS THEY ARE LIKELY TO TAKE UP, AND EVEN TO BE PREPARED TO TRANSFER THEMSELVES FROM ONE OCCUPATION TO ANOTHER.

+THE INDIVIDUAL, THEREFORE, MUST NOT ONLY BECOME MORE ADAPTABLE AS A WORKER, DUT MUST ALSO BE IN A POSITION TO SELECT FOR HIMSELF SOME WORTHY AND USEFUL WAY OF OCCUPYING HIS FREE TIME. THE AVERAGE CITIZEN MUST BE A MAN OR WORMAN OF COMMON SENSE AND BREADTH OF VIEW, HE SAID,

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FIRE PREVENTION OFFICERS KEPT BUSY

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FIRE PREVENTION BUREAU OFFICERS HAD ANOTHER BUSY TIME LAST MONTH, CARRYING OUT 12,340 INSPECTIONS

AN AVERAGE

OF ABOUT 440 EVERY DAY. THE TOTAL FOR JANUARY WAS 15,138.

AS USUAL, THE LARGEST NUMBER OF INSPECTIONS RELATED TO MEANS

OF THIS FIGURE, 4,721 WERE IN OF ESCAPE, TOTALLING 5,657. OF THIS FIGURE, RESPONSE TO COMPLAINTS. A FURTHER 1,205 GENERĀL COMPLAINTS WERE ALSO LOOKED INTO.

THE NUMBER OF FACTORIES INSPECTED WAS 2,855. INSPECTIONS RELATED TO THE CARRIAGE AND STORAGE OF DANGEROUS GOODS NUMBERED 591 AND THERE WERE 779 INSPECTIONS OF VENTILLATION SYSTEMS IN BUILDINGS AND IN INDUSTRY. A TOTAL OF 376 INSPECTIONS OF FIRE SERVICES INSTALLATIONS WERE CONDUCTED. OF WHICH 281 WERE IN RESPECT OF PRIVATE BUILDINGS AND INDUSTRY AND THE REMAINDER OF GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS. ELEVEN FIRES WERE INVESTIGATED BY BUREAU OFFICERS.

OTHER INSPECTIONS INCLUDED PLACES OF PUBLIC ASSEMBLY (68) RESTAURANTS AND NIGHT CLUBS (219), SCHOOLS (382), AND TIMBER-YARDS (27). THERE WERE FIVE INSPECTIONS OF NEON SIGNS AND 85 MISCELLANEOUS INSPECTIONS.

DURING THE WHOLE OF LAST YEAR, THE BUREAU CARRIED OUT AN

THE NUMBER AVERAGE OF MORE THAN 15,000 INSPECTIONS EVERY MONTH. OF PROSECUTIONS TAKEN OUT WAS 1,103, AND FINES TOTALLING $444,765 WERE IMPOSED. A TOTAL OF 6,267 FIRĖ HAZARD ABATEMENT NOTICES WERE ISSUED.

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