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Show Accidents Kill Children It will probably surprise many readers that accidents cause more baby deaths than any disease, according to Good Housekeeping House-keeping Magazine, which points out th:-.t 8,500 children, up to four years of age, died in 1943 from preventable accidents. Accidental burns account for the largest number of accidental deaths in homes among children up to the age of four years. Playing Play-ing with matches, of course, causes burns but many injuries are received from defective electric elec-tric cords and from pulling pots and pans of scalding liquids from stoves or tables. Of course, parents of babies under one year of age should ex- er-'ise great care to avoid accidental acci-dental suffocation, which is the cause of the highest number of baby deaths in the under-one-ycar-group. |