Show accident hazards in m home flome an and d on farm cause greatest annual D eath toll P S t K L R 4 ne B tf awa HP F YOU live on a heavy traffic cor 1 I nerin iier in a great city it may be hard for you to believe that the bedroom in which you lie vainly trying to sleep while automobiles hoot and crash on the corner is less sate safe than the busy traffic lane if you live on a farm you consider your cool barn a safer asater place than the machine room of t the he city factory where lathes and be bolts its whirr all day long but in both instances you are wrong public attention concentrated on automobile de deaths achs and injuries Is being directed by the american red cross to the fact that accidental deaths in the home claim a greater annual toll automobile fatalities last year tor for the nation numbered while people killed by accidents in their homes to safety drives in industries dus tries and utilities have reduced accidents until the deaths last year were 2 2300 while on the farm where safety is only now being taught by the red cross annual death toll was the bedroom Is shown by safety experts to be the most dangerous room in the house largely due to falls and walking in the dark on the farm machinery causes the greatest number of accidental deaths with Z W Z W aa you take your life in your hands every time you commit one of these careless acts at top left if the knife slips grave injury will be tile the right combination of a wet hand and result can openers are cheap body and broken electric wiring will result in a complete electric circuit and death safeguard electric appliances in kitch kitchen ell and bath below this farmer handles a vie vicious ious bull with a stick to keep it at a safe distance had he used a rope the bu bull if could charge him injury by b y animals ranking second the american red cross launched its third annual home and farm accident prevention campaign this tall fall more than ten million check lists showing hazards hazard s were carried home by school chi children chilgren laren including members ot of the junior red cross parents were asked to check these lists against conditions which might exist and from which accidental death or s serious injury might result it if repairs were not made or caution observed this widely acclaimed safety program is one of the many services 0 of the red cross supported through its annual roll call for members conducted by chapters and their branches in communities |