A Community Surveys Its Home Accidents

Home accidents in childhood.

This paper first appeared in the New Englandjournal of Medicine (1959; 260: 1322-31) and is reprinted by permission. Copyright (1959) Massachusetts Medical Society. The following and many similar headines startle parent 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...

[on Home Accidents].

A Study of Home Accidents in Aberdeen

TEXTBOOK OF PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY. By G. H. Bell, J. N. Davidson, and H. Scarborough. Fifth Edition. (Pp. xi + 1117; illustrated. 70s.) Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1961. A YEAR which sees new editions of Samson Wright and B. D. S. (and also of Best and Taylor, which has not been submitted for review) is a vintage year indeed. Samson Wright is a verv old friend, having been ...

Housing and health: Accidents at home.

Every year there are about 5500 fatal accidents in British homes (some two fifths of all fatal accidents). A further 2 2 million people have non-fatal accidents at home needing hospital treatment, and another 900 000 are dealt with by general practitioners. The cost of domestic accidents to the health service in England and Wales is about £300 000 a year.' Statistical information about non-fata...

Small-community-based surveys.

Rapid, small surveys are routinely done in much of the developing world but are less common in the United States. We present as an example a rapid survey of immunization status and other factors in a predominantly Hispanic region in Los Angeles. The survey united county employees, students, and community volunteers, first to enumerate the eligible population and then to conduct in-person interv...