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Show Campaign Cites Ways To Reduce Home Accidents In line with the national campaign cam-paign of the American Red Cross to prevent accidents in and about the home and on the farm, the Red Cross-Welfare committee is distributing distrib-uting safety check-lists to. homes in American Fork, this week, Mrs. Ora Chimpan, committee chairman, announces. an-nounces. Purpose of the check-lists is to reduce accidents through discovery and correction of hazardous conditions condi-tions which commonly, lead to accidental acci-dental injuries and fatalities. The lists are being distributed to children in the local schools, to be taken home to their parents.' Through this method of distribution, the committee expects to place the safety message in virtually every home in the community. It is pointed out, by the American Red Cross, that more than 31,000 persons are killed in home accidents each year, and that one-third of all fatal accidents and over half of all injuries occur in and about the home. And each year more than four thousand farmers are lulled by accident; no other occupation has such a high accident rate. The check list - for the home stresses the discovery of hazards which might lead to falls and broken brok-en bones, burns and scalds, asphyxiation' asphy-xiation' and suffocation, electric shock, bleeding and infection, poisonings, poi-sonings, and gun shot wounds. For the farm, hazards which are stressed stress-ed are machinery, tools and equipment, equip-ment, the farm yard,' the ' farm home, buildings, and animals. The committee requests that parents par-ents or guardians acknowledge receipt re-ceipt of the lists by filling out and returning the detachable slips. |