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Show ACCIDENTS IN 2925 COST BILLION DOLLARS Accidents in 1925 cost a billion dollars in the United States, according to William H. Cameron, of Chicago, managing director cf the National Safety council. About 3G'3,000,000 working days were lost in the country because of fatalities and other accidents, Mr. Cameron declared. "Our 1925 statistics," he said, "show that during the year more than 85,000 men, women and children were killed in accidents on the streets, in the home and in industrial work-shops. Of this number 21,000 were killed by automobiles, 25,000 fatally injured :.t work and 41,000 killed in public places other than the streets. "Today our big problem is to convince employers that accident acci-dent prevention work must be made a major part of their program, and we know, that most of the fatalities in factories can be eliminated. elim-inated. "There still are thousands unaware that these lost-time accidents acci-dents do not merely happen but are caused, and that once the causes are eliminated there will be no accidents. "The necessary interest is beginning to be shown in the reduction reduc-tion of automobile accidents; state and municipal authorities are doing everything possible to prevent accidents in other places, such as theaters, meeting halls, schools, churches and auditoriums, and insurance companies and other agencies are doing much to educate the people regarding accidents in the home, but there has been no great movement to awaken industry to the terrible toll that accidents acci-dents take every year." |