“SAFETY FIRST” ESSAYS
TEACHING LONDON CHILDREN Nearly 200,000 London elementary school children recently wrote essays on “Safety First” in a competition organised by the National “Safety First” Association. A scholarship and 200 money prizes were awarded for the best essays. “It is a significant fact,” said an official of the association, "that since ‘Safety First* propaganda has been carried on in the schools the police have recorded a decrease in the fatalities caused by children playing in the road or stealing rides on the back of vehicles. While in 1918 child fatalities in London streets were 237, in 1925 they were reduced to 219. in spite of the increase in motor traffic?. The significance of this is increased by the fact that in the same period adult fa taliI ties incrased from 357 to 621.”
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 112, 2 August 1927, Page 11
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