Home Accidents in Childhood
- 25 June 1959
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 260 (26) , 1322-1331
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm195906252602607
Abstract
THE following and many similar headlines startle parents and physicians daily: "Girl Dead, Boy Blinded by Antifreeze"; "Three Small Children Perish in Home Fire"; and "Boy, Two, Dies in Two-Story Fall." To the physician, who today can usually successfully treat his child patients for such serious illnesses as meningitis, erythroblastosis fetalis and dehydration, it is particularly frustrating to be faced with the death or serious injury of one of these children from an accident; yet except for the first year of life accidents are the single greatest cause of death during childhood1 (Table 1).In 1956 accidents caused over 10,000 . . .Keywords
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