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Show l Watch Your Children I Now that warmer days are here and children are spending more time out of doors, parents need to be even more vigilant to prevent children from being killed or crip-pled crip-pled in unnecessary neighborhood accidents, Dr. Albert H. Domm, medical director of the western headquarters of the Prudential Insurance In-surance Co., said yesterday. "Curiosity in young children is an almost irresistable urge. It often leads them into dangerous situations unless conditioned by experience ex-perience or parental safety training," train-ing," he warned. The medical director pointed out that irrigation difches and canals, uncovered cisterns and wells, abandoned refrigerators, unprotected unpro-tected excavations, buildings under construction and animals are among the neighborhood perils for which parents should watch. "To protect children from drowning, suffocation, cave-ins, animal bites and falls, parents must first see to it that a child is taught good safety habits and second that wherever he plays is a safe place," Dr. Domm said. "Parental "Par-ental responsibility for the safety of their children does not end when the child leaves his home nor does it transfer to anyone else." Dr. Domm offered the following safety tips to prevent neighborhood neighbor-hood child accidents: 1. Teach children to swim early. Report water hazards, such as un-fenced un-fenced irrigation ditches and canals and uncovered cisterns or wells to authorities. 2. Teach children never to climb into refrigerators, deep freezes, trunks or anything in which they may be trapped or suffocated. Check your neighborhood to see that there are no such menaces abandoned in vacant lots or alleys. 3. Teach children never to climb into excavations or other holes where they may be trapped by a cave-in. 4. Teach children never to pet strange animals and never to tease any pets, no matter how familiar they are. 5. Teach children to stay off buildings under construction. |