Show pREVENT THE DISASTERS It is 1 time some orne precautionary meas measures mease tie ures Were e adopted to mitigate the evils attendant upon the celebration of the Fourth of July J Ir now no close at hand time that sanity should be shown In the kind of fireworks and noisemaking devices allowed in the hands of young and old Year in Ip and year ear out attention Is called to this matter but very ery little has been accomplished In the way of reform A AToll ATOil AroIl Toll TOil of the dead and wounded for the past put ten years eara prepared by the Chicago Tribune furnishes food for thought The figures given toll tell their own own story and should ho prompt municipal mu authorities to Immediate action The red record fol follows follow lows low t Year Dead DEl d Wounded WS 18 3 7 87 im tM I K II l 1808 ii 11 1 1111 1636 15 S is ie 11 l Gt ill 14 KOI 31 SZ IZ Ml IaN n 1 1 1 u S Iii 1 m II 2767 MS JW S IS 17 1142 Totals 01 IOSi These The e figures are gathered only two days daS after the thel Celebration each year and are necessarily Incomplete The Thereal Thereal Thereal real totals are furnished by the Journal maI of the American Medical association the tabulations being made in August when tetanus has boo had time to do Its deadly work w rk Year Dead Deed Wounded Total Tetanus T 1954 1001 1 t K 54 14 1449 6 9 IM J 73 14 UK 1156 t ft 32 1St 4 LiT 1 Si im IB 1 USG n 51 1 Totals Ij 1315 Nearly Nearl 1490 l M lives ves sacrificed and more than men women and chil children dren maimed and mangled man led in the past mx years Surely the tM use US of deadly cx ex explosives plosives plo should be discontinued in all civilized civilised communities when the ap appalling palling polling results are so tiO well known knon The time Ume to act ae to now |