Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1916-08-18 | Page 3 | Most Accidents in Homes

MOST ACCIDENTS IN HOMES Majority of Injuries Can Be Traced to the Carelessness of Individuals. The "safety first" movement Is ordinarily or-dinarily understood to mean caution In public, in crossing streets or boarding board-ing cars, or carefulness in the factory In handling tools or machinery, but. according ac-cording to the report of the coroner of Cook county. Illinois, there is more need for "safety first" methods in the home than in the street or factory. In 11 years of the Chicago coroner's Incumbency the total number of deaths by accident Investigated by his ofliee was C.l.SiH. Of these 1,",241 were "accidents "ac-cidents at home" and 14,0-3 "outside the home." Most of the accidents at home are traceable to carelessness. Burns and scalds caused many deaths. Asphyxiation, Asphyxia-tion, poisoning, suffocation, falls, exposure ex-posure and neglect, careless use of matches, firearms, gas and oil stoves, gasoline, liquid stove polish, defective stovepipes and flues, soot, etc.', cost thousands of lives. In Cook county in 1915, 103 children under five years of age were killed by scalds and burns.