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Show mal organization of the safety movement, about 500,000 persons have been saved from accidental deaths. From 1900 until 1913 an average aver-age of nearly 75,000 persons were killed in accidents each year a rate of 85 deaths per 100,000 population. The toll would have reached 84,000 persons in 1914 if this rate had continued, but it was reduced to 79 and the death toll to 77,000 a saving of about 7,000 lives. Similar comparisons based on rates for succeeding years show that about half a million mil-lion lives were saved by 1951. Despite these accomplishments, "Accident Facts," the National Safety Council's statistical yearbook year-book shows that one home in evory five is touched by a serious accident acci-dent each year. Accidents Strike One in Five Homes in Year Deaths and taxes may be inevitable inevi-table but the experts are beating beat-ing the former. Since 1913, the year of 'the foiv |