Show How 10 g MM Safe if M L Are Aloe A r You at Home I Red Cross Warns of Hazards e. e S 5 1 17 I 1 I I t 4 s I e r i 5 r N R i T 1 7 b 1 q i tp r I Jy 1 loose ru rug at top P of of staIrs Is a dangerous haz hazard rd 2 2 Keep me medicine C cabinets locked ed or out of reach of youngsters t 2 4 3 Teach Good luck children M if you not hang to P put it safety SafeA but pine pIn bad or other small sma objects Ir their h mouths mouth o I up luck If you step on the nails in this horseshoe D DURING WRING pRING the month of October the American Red fled Cross will carry a safety message Into ten million homes I and farms throughout the nation urgIng ing a up cheek on accident hazards I I Do you know these hazards I How How safe tre re you at home Do you on know that deaths from Injuries on the farm Carm are steadily increasing What are the causes causee These are a few of the questions ques ques- I Hans the Home and Farm Accident Proven tion Service t of f the Red Cross will send into homes on an accident check list lint to be distributed through Chapters by millions of school of-school school children and members of the Junior Red Cross And the answers are provided on the check list too National attention was concentrated on the Home and Farm accident problem lem In 36 1935 by the Red Cross In that year men women and children lost their lives In home accidents which were largely preventable In 1937 this toll of life was reduced and only lives were sacrificed to carelessness The spread of knowledge on hazards which were subject to correction was I I everywhere credited with this cut inthe inthe in inthe the death toll The 1937 deaths death from home accidents were divided as follows according to the National Safety Council falls faUs burns hums and explosions poisonings 1700 firearms mechanical mechanical mechanical me me- suffocation 1000 gases 1100 The Red fled Cross appeals to those In the home and on the farm to carefully check cheek hazards which may exist inside and outside their houses and perhaps save a life Ufe or prevent a long life Injury i f |