Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-10-15 | Page 6 | Advice on Your Health

Advice on Your Health lj I IBy By Morris Fishbein b Ed Editor Journal our American n Medical J Associate s This i. i is the final article In a n domestic industrial and traffic series b by Dr Fishbein discussing safety Electricity around the home isa isa is isa a great help for many purposes but d defective electrical appliances or d defective electrical cords are ire area irea a hazard Too many of us think we can qualify as competent electricians such matters are quite as technical technical technical cal as is plumbing Here are a few fundamental rules for household safety which have recently been developed and which every parent should keep in mind 1 If your our apartment is high bar the windows 2 Never allow roach paste lye or other ether poisons to be used indiscriminately indiscriminately indis india around the house 3 Never leave a bab baby or a ayoung ayoung young oung child alone in a bathtub 4 Never permit a child to run runan runan runan an elevator either automatic or otherwise in your home or your apartment 5 5 Firearms around the house are a constant hazard to every child They are better kept out of ot the home but if you ou do have them lock them up 6 Never use kerosene or gasoline gasoline gaso gaso- line to start a fire The explosion explosion explosion sion will come sooner or later While the home is hazardous for the child the figures of a leading insurance company show that men are the chief victims of fatal home a accidents c c ci ide d e n t ts s. s Their chances of being killed are much greater than those of women Falls in the home are arc third one-third more frequent among men than women Usually the man falls off offa a roof a ladder a porch or a balcony Women more often fall faIl falloff falloff off chairs The most important of all falls by far namely far namely falling falling fall fall- ing downstairs is is more frequent among men than among women Poisoning from illuminating gas gasis gasis gasis is three times as frequent among men as among women Injury by firearms is infrequent as a cause of death for women in the home but men are getting shot constant constant- ly while cleaning guns or ora them carelessly f The only type of home ace den in which more women are arc injured fatally is by If there is any single sides carelessness which be controlled in preventing h ho accidents it is the factor of ugh ing J Plenty of lighting in the horn hom homin hornin in the shop on the at every other place where hum hunia beings move about is an imp tant factor in the prevention accidents 1