Show S MOST DEATHS FROM S MISHAPS LAID S TO TRAFFIC i Governors Governor's 4 Report Sho Shows s Fatalities Y s Calif Industrial F Big Decrease SA SACRAMENTO tA ENTO No Nov 20 The The greatest great- great crt est cst single cause of accidental deaths in in California for the tho fiscal year ending end end- Ing june 30 1320 InO was vehicular f 0 C to th annual rep report ft of the thc industrial accident commission to Governor W. W D. D Stephens made c public today Two hundred and twenty-three twenty accidental deaths during the year were assigned to automobiles cars wagons boats and other vehicles However there was a substantial decrease decrease de decrease de- de crease in the number of industrial deaths and cases of ot permanent injuries In comparison with the record for the o preceding twelve months ending June 30 1919 the report s stated In Jn 1919 there were 86 deaths as compared with for 1918 a reduction reduction tion of Cases of permanent injuries injuries in injuries in- in juries number 1714 for 1919 as against 2100 for tor 1918 a reduction of ot as lIUN JURY INCREASES Only in the number of ot cases of temporary temporary tem tern injuries reported e d was there an Increase in 1919 over over the preceding twelve month period the total being for 1919 against or an Increase of ot A reduction in the number of ot of deaths and nd permanent Injuries In the face tace atthe of at the increase in the number of temporary temporary temporary tempo tempo- injury cases shown is considered remarkable Of the tho deaths reported in Industrial Industrial Industrial Indus Indus- trial accidents occurred In operas operations opera opera- Lions ho not te coming il within v the scope of 1 s the compensation o l law leaving com com- cases Nine women were km killed while at work in 1919 LEAVE DEPENDENT DENT Two hundred and seve seventy eight ty of the persons killed during the year left totally dependent relatives and In 53 63 fatal cases partially dependent relatives were left In cases there were no dependents In fifteen cases of serious of-serious and permanent permanent perma perma- nent injuries life Ufe pensions were award award- ed There Thero were thirteen such cases In 1918 Isis The average age of ot those killed was 34 3 years and the tho average wage was 28 2851 l a i week The sum of ot was awarded th the injured workers and the dependents of those killed during 1919 The Thee sum of expended for medical surgical and hospital expenses ex ex- added to the total awards gives a ross gross total of 5 5 nULI RULING G ON INJURY On One important decision upheld the commissions commission's Interpretation of the word Injury in a case caso where death resulted from Influenza contracted in the course of employment The a a. hospital hos hos- pital steward had to handle influenza cases cases cases' and when he e died of ot the malady his his' widow presented the claim The court unanimously sustained the commissions commission's commissions commission's com com- missions mission's finding Starting with an appropriated capital capital capital capi capi- tal of 01 In its insurance fund which is still held Intact in the state treasury the commission reported as- as Dividends to policy holders have reached a total of ot and the state fund holds a net surplus r of tilt 1 over and above all lia- lia f |