Accidental Injuries to Children

Abstract
THE great advances in medical science have markedly changed the spectrum of conditions affecting the life and happiness of children. With the control of infantile diarrhea, diphtheria, tuberculosis, pneumonia and other conditions, the problem of accidental injury and death has come to the fore. Accidents are now the chief cause of death in children from one through sixteen years of age. In spite of the fact that this has frequently been called to their attention, physicians are still under the influence of the past and tend to dramatize epidemic disease and close their eyes to the greatest killer.In 1955 . . .