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Accident Problem Should Concern All Parents
"Accidents kill and cripple more of our children than all the infectious diseases of childhood put together,” Dr. Mack I. Shanholtz, State Health Commissioner, said today.
“If parents understood the accident problem and were as concerned about it as they are about polio and other contagious diseases, the toll of child-' hood death and disability could be reduced drastically,” he added.
In the Preschool Age Group, 1-4, there were 126 accidental deaths reported to the State Health Department’s Bureau of Vital Statistics in 1952. Of this number 50 deaths were due to bums, and 30 to motor vehicles. Drownings and suffocation from food and foreign bodies accounted for 9 deaths each, while 8 children in this age group died from poisonings. Falls and firearms claimed 3 victims each. Two children were electrocuted and 12 deaths in this group were not classified.
Accidents have been consistently the leading cause of death among School Age children for over 20 years, Dr. Shanholtz stated. Last year in Virginia, 128 accidental deaths were recorded for this group of 5 to 14 year-olds. Motor vehicles ranked as the leading cause of accidental death, claiming 48 victims. Drownings followed second with 25. Other causes were burns, 19; transport deaths other than motor vehicles, 8; firearms, 8; falls, 4; death due to injury by machinery, 4; and poisoning, 1. Eleven deaths in this age group were not classified.
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