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Show STREETS SAFER THAN THE CHICAGO HOMES CHICAGO, March 5. Streets . in Chicago aro safor than tho homes and the horse-drawn vehicle contributes to more accidents than tho motor cars, according to tho first report today ot tho public safety commission named bv Poter Hoffman, coroner. '"Til 1012 there wore more accidental accident-al deaths reported in homes than in tho streots, tho roport said. "Asphyxiation, "As-phyxiation, falling down stairs, out ot windows and from porches, burning, scalding and smothering of children woro the causes of tho greater number of homo deaths. "Out of every 5,000,000 miles ot travel of horse-drawn vehicles there were twenty-six and a fraction acci-donts. acci-donts. For tho samo distance of automobile au-tomobile travel there woro twelvo and a fraction accidonls." The conclusions woro drawn from reportB of the last four years. |