Show T T Child Safety Week For Utah Wall WID Start Sunday Y Plans for a week-long week Child Safety Crusade starting Sunday April 25 to encourage parents to rid their homes of accident hazards which kill and cripple children were announced yesterday yesterday yesterday yester yester- day by Dr George A. A Stale State Health Director The health official said t the it e Crusade is an annual event to highlight the departments department's year- year round safety education activities The period has been officially proclaimed Child Safety Week by Governor J. J Bracken Lee In Iii his proclamation the lie chief executive of the state has called on all mothers and fathers to cooperate in a move to reduce home accident More children are arc kill killed d and crippled as a result of home accidents than by any of the I six leading diseases more than traffic In announcing plans for t the b h e annual event he pointed out that last year more than children under 15 years of age I I were killed were permanently permanently perma perma- crippled and were disabled in accidents Unlike most statistics these are arc not just cold facts he said these are statistics that once were children These rhese are arc children that were but no longer are arc These are arc children who escaped death only to spend their lives in untold I physical and mental pain al all because of accidents that need not have happened Causes of accidents in the home homb area he said include falls electrocutions burns poisonings strangulations anc and shootings The health official stated that tha while home accidents happen suddenly they usually have been beena a long time in the making The lye soap that the toddler ate has been under the kitchen sink for months The scissors have been lying in mothers mother's sewing basket wailing for baby to main maim himself The habit of leaving the pot handle sticking out over th the edge of the stove has existed for many years years |