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Show Child Safety Week Proclaimed For Western States To warn parents of dangers in the home which may kill, cripple, crip-ple, or disfigure their children, Child Safety Week is being observed ob-served throughout Utah during the present week, Dr. George A. Spendlove, state direcor of Public Health, announced yester-day. yester-day. Part o! a coordinated program throughout the 11 western states and Hawaii, the local campaign cam-paign is a highlight of the department de-partment of public health's year-rcund year-rcund crusade to reduce the tremendous tre-mendous toll of young lives taken tak-en each year in home area accidents. acci-dents. "More than 12.000 children are killed, 50.000 more are perman-enly perman-enly crippled, and 1.500,000 are seriously injured in these home tragedies which are largely preventable," pre-ventable," Dr. Spendlove snid. "In addition to making these facts known to parents, we hope to show them how they can prevent pre-vent accidents by forethought, discipline and effort." The health officer said that every room in the average house holds danger for children. Among the principal causes of deaths, cripplings and injuries to children chil-dren In the home area he named burns and scalds from matches, cigarettes, lighters, bonfires, Incinerators,, In-cinerators,, and hot liquids; drowning In swimming pools, ponds, irrigation ditches and famiiy bathtub; poisoning from common household Hems, garden poisons and medicines; firearms and ammunition; electrocution and burns from unguarded electric elec-tric outlets and worn cords; In-lury In-lury from ordinary home appliances, appli-ances, garden and farm machinery; machin-ery; falls from windows and down stairs, and cars backing out of driveways. |