| Show Protection for Children S Seasonal warnings are being broad through the press calling c on farmers contractors and builders and all others who use blasting cap caps capsin in iii connection with explosives to take special care to see that no blast blast- blasting toI I in lag ing caps are left about where children can find them During the past year I approximately children were maimed or crippled as a result of ex- ex explosions exPlosions ex explosions of or blasting caps which they picked up where they had been left by careless workman In some cases children were killed gathered on accidents of this nature show that about eighty per cent of them occur in rural or rural semi rural districts Blasting caps seem to have a fascination for nanny many manyI I boys who try to explode them by picking or throwing into bonfires Numbers of cases at law have resulted from Irom the injuries sustained by boys bOj's Parents have sued and rind obtained damages a against companies and individuals who have been responsible for leav leav- leaving leav- leav leaving leaving ing blasting caps carelessly about But above aboe all this carelessness takes a serious toll toH of or the children o of the country because it results in loss of eyes hands limbs and other injuries which unfit them for useful occupations occupations occupations in later life |
