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Show yspon.sibility for their safety rents with the individual driver, the Council said. round "Operation Safety" cam- 'paign. "Could you stop?" is the question ques-tion being asked motorists in the appeal for child safety. Although parents, schools and officials all have a responsibility in the protection pro-tection of children, the final re- Accidents Worse Than Disease In Child Death Risk The safest person in the United States has moved. It used to be that little girl in Connecticut remember? The National Na-tional Safety Council's nominee for the mythical safety title is still a little girl, but now she lives in New Jersey. The Council figures it this way: New Jersey had the lowest accident acci-dent fatality rate of any state last year. The safest age group in the country was the 5-14 bracket. And for some reason, little girls seem to be safer than litle boys. Accidents Top Disease But the glitter of Little Miss Safety's crown should not blind public awareness by far any of the still outrank by far any of the more generally feared childhood diseases as a cause of death among children 1 to 14 years old, the Council said. There were 10,731 accidental deaths in that age group in 1947 three times more than were "claimed by pneumonia, the next most important cause of death. And accidents caused 42 times as many deaths as polio. Traffic Chief Hazard The leading cause of accidental death to children is motor vehicle traffic, the Council said, and for that reason the Back-to-school month of September Has been designated des-ignated for special emphasis of child safety as part of the yearT 1 |