AUTOMOBILE INJURIES

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This survey deals with the injuries found by postmortem examination of the bodies of 383 persons killed by motor vehicles. The accidents all occurred between the summer of 1911 and the autumn of 1924 (table 1). Those who lived to arrive at the hospital were all cared for at the Cook County Hospital. There were forty-five boys and fifteen girls from 4 to 15 years of age; of older persons, there were 272 men and fifty-one women. The number injured by trucks was forty-seven; by taxicabs, thirty-five, and by automobiles, 301. It was learned that one man fell from a truck which then passed over his body; two others were knocked down and then run over by trucks; one man who was sitting on a curbstone was hit by a passing machine; two were crushed between automobiles and street cars, and a third between a car and the wall of

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