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Show Home accidents take 119 lives in Utah in '65 Over 19,000 Utahns were injured in-jured bv home accidents in Utah during 1965, it was reported re-ported today by Mrs. Irvin Hull vice president of Home Safety of the Utah Safety Council. Of those injured, 119 died as a result of such accidents acci-dents up to December 1, 1965, she reported. The most frequent type of accident resulted from falls. Other frequent causes were fire, poisonings, and firearms. The Coucil spokesman for home safety also reorts that newly-developed home products are not only convenient, but often create hazards if not properly used. She cited recent accounts appearing in the current cur-rent issue of Family Safety Magazine, published by the National Na-tional Safety Council. Mrs. Hull cautioned housewives house-wives to be especially careful of the following: Baby oil Years ago, oily nose drops on the market were a hazard to babies. If refined oil, usually called liquid petroleum, was allowed al-lowed to get into the lungs of either children or adults, lipid pneumonia, a serious and sometimes some-times fatal disease, often resulted. re-sulted. Water and other non-oily non-oily suspensions are now used in nose drops. Now, however, there's a modern menace to babies: sprays containing oil. A diaper rash remedy, for example, ex-ample, that contains liquid petrolatum pe-trolatum is being marketed in pressure can. Spraying even a small ' amount in such a way that your baby could breathe it might be a fatal mistake. Vaporizer Winter's dry air often brings on or aggravates a case of croup, the special foe of babies and young children. The use of a vaporizer, hot or cold type, is often prescribed for relief of coughing and hoarseness. Each year, especially during , cold weather, many tragic accidents ac-cidents result from thoughtless placement of hot-type vaporizers vaporiz-ers where children can tip them over or fall against them. Teakettles and other poor substitutes sub-stitutes for vaporizers also figure in a number of burnings and scaldings of babies. Clothes dryer Serious home fires get their start in clothes dryers when the vent, heating unit or lint catcher becomes clogged with lint. Regular checking and cleaning of lint-catching places in the dryer normal preventive preven-tive maintenance is essential to safety. Remember never to put any item containing foam rubber in your dryer pads, pillows, toys and other products pro-ducts made of foam rubber can become highly combustible. The Council reported that home accidents are the leading cause of nonfatal injury, and the second leading cause of accidental deaths, exceeded only by traffic accidents. The economic loss to Utahns resulting re-sulting from home accidents in 1965 was in excess of $7,000 000. |
