HOUSEHOLD DEATHS
800 WOMEN DIE THROUGH ACCIDENTS IN HOMES LONDON, Saturday. "Eight hundred women are killed yearly in England and Wales by falling downstairs in their homes, and 1.000 are killed by falling over buekets and broom-handles," said Miss Margaret Bondfield, ex-Minister for Laboux, addressing the National Safety Congress. "Road sense, which modern traffic has developed, should be paralleled by similar sense in the homes," she declared. Another speaker urged that furniture makers should avoid sharp edges on corners, on which children injured themselves in the dark.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 228, 19 May 1932, Page 2
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