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very truly yours,
Edwin E. Clark, Jr.
Flint Hill, Va.
Poison Prevention
Week Mar. 15-21
While announcing the week of March 15-21 as National Poison Prevention Week the National Planning Council for the annual observance estimates that 500,000 children will be victims of accidental poisoning this year. Seventy-three Virginians died as a result of accidental poisoning in 1969 according to the State Health Department’s Bureau of Vital Records and Health Statistics. “There is no way to tell how many ‘near misses’ there were in the state,” said Dr. Mack I. Shanholtz, State Health Commissioner.
Aspirin is the mo6t common cause of accidental poisoning. Children have been known to eat ehtire bottles of aspirin thinking that it was candy. After eating the aspirin the child’s vital organs slow down, not enough blood is circulated and too little oxygen is taken in. Slowly the child lapses into a coma. If treatment isn’t administered quickly the body’s vital functions cease entirely.
Products marked “poison” usually receive proper respect, yet some which do not bear that label may be equally dangerous. Insect sprays, kerosene, lighter fluid, some furniture polishes, turpentine, paints, solvents, cleaning fluids and detergents fall Into this group.
“Growing children are curious and will eat and drink almost anything," said Dr. Shanholtz, “and we must be persistent in keeping children and poisons
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