The first national conference on childhood accidents and prevention, which will be held in
Ottawa Apr. 14 and 15, is long overdue, for accidents are the commonest cause of death and …

Poisonings.~Poisonings caused 28 Mechanical Suff ocation.--Thirty-one Inh~ation and Ingestion
of Food and Other Materials.--Inha Page 1 ACCIDENTS--A MAJOR CHILD HEALTH PROBLEM …

In the time it has taken you to read the title of this article, one child in the United States has
been injured in an accident. In the next four minutes another child will have been left …

The causes of injury to 17,141 children brought to the emergency department of a large
pediatric hospital in one year were studied. The leading causes of injury were: falls, 5682; …

Every year 2,000 children under 15 years of age die in Canada as a result of some form of
trauma;'and over half a million children in Canada and two million in the United States are …

XACTLY how many children are disabled because of accidents has never been aceurate] y
determined. In Pennsylvania approximately 900 children lose their lives each year as the …

If we measure the importance of a child health problem by its mortality, accidental injuries
are by far the greatest threat to life in the school ages. The comparative importance of …

• Objective.—Trauma is the leading cause of death in children older than 1 year in the
United States. We performed an analysis of the causes of death due to trauma in children in …

DURING the last 100 years there has been a remarkable fall in child mortality rates. Before
1860, 4 per cent of children who survived their first year died before attaining the age of …

Magnitude and Scope of the Problem Three persons will die and about four hundred fifty
persons will suffer injury from accidental causes in the United States during the course of …