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Show AN INEXCUSABLE RECORD. The accident problem is of vital interest to every citizen. During 1930 accidents accounted for the deaths of 99,000 persons, and 10,000,000 injuries. For these accidents acci-dents the American people paid $3,-250,000,000. $3,-250,000,000. Only five diseases cause more deaths than accidents, and between the ages of five and fourteen, accidents acci-dents cause more than twice as many deaths as the most important disease. The death rate from accidents in this country is twice as high as in the principal European countries. The motor vehicle leads all other causes, accounting for 33,000 deaths In 1930, followed by home accidents with 30,-000 30,-000 and industrial accidents totaling 19,000. But there is a brighter side to the accident picture. Child deaths have been decreased by persistent "safety" education. Accidents have been reduced re-duced 28 per cent in two years by 1,600 industrial concerns reporting to the National Safety Council. The number of commercial trucks Involved Involv-ed in accidents had gone down 19 per cent since 1927. And, in scheduled air transport, the death rate declined 87 per cent from 1928 to 1930. But when 82,000 people can be killed kill-ed in a single year in automobiles, homes and industries, every motorist, every employer and employee and all other citizens must recognize their own individual responsibility to help reduce the accident toll. |