The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1909-07-02
SIX THOUSAND PEOPLE BURNED
Every Year in the United States-fiow Best
to Aid Victims

phlet has been issued from the Office o.
State Fire Marshal w. S. Rogers o.
Ohio, which gives valuable advice as &c
first aid to the injured and burned al
fires. 1t reads, in part:
More than 5000 persons are burned
to death every year in the United
States. Many times that number are
badly burned.
A burn of the first degree hurts
only the outside Of the skin. The
burned place is red, painfully hot and
tender. When it gets well the outside
layer of the skin peels. This outside
layer Of the skin is made of scales like
those Of a fish, but very much smaller.
To stop the pain from such a burn
the air must be kept away from it.
Lint or cotton wet from a pint of water
into which a teaspoonful Of baking
soda has been stirred should be put
over the burn and held by bandage.
If there is no soda use sweet oil or
molasses. Many mothers use scrapings
from a potato. If burn of this kind
covers a large part Of the body it is
dangerous and a doctor should be sent
for.
While waiting for him an extensive
burn should be wrapped in cotton or
covered with flour. A very large burn
which only makes the skin red without
blistering it may cause one to sink and
die from shock and pain. Big burns
that are not deep often come from gas
and gasoline explosions in which the
heat only lasts a moment.
In burns of the second degree there
are blisters. Blisters are made by water
from the blood being poured out to
cool the burn. The skin over the bis
ter should not be taken away, but the
water should be let out of it by a
needle prick at its edge. Clothing
should be taken off with care not to
break any blisters. The skin over the
blister is the best covering for the raw
spot under it until new skin grows.
Burns of this kind should be COW
cred with soft rags or cotton dipped in
canon oil, which can be had at any
drug store, or by cloth smeaed with
tallow. Over the cloths a bandage
should be put.
Burns Of the third degree take the
life out of all the layers of the skin
and sometimes out Of the flesh under
them. The skin is made hard like stiff
paper. The dead skin and flesh are got
ten rid of my matter forming under
them. While these deep burns are
healing the flesh under them may draw
up so that a joint can not be moved.
They always leave bad scars.
ANY deep burn should have the
care of a doctor quickly. Until he
gets there the burned one should be
wrapped in a blanket or put into a
bathtub of warm water. Many per
sons say a burn should be held near
a fame to draw the fire out of it,
That is foolish.
Most of the deep burns are suffered
by persons whose clothing is ignited.
This is because the fame is kept
against the skin so long.
Children whose clothes take fire
are usually burned to death.
'ScaTds are burns from hot water.
They are not likely to be deep because
the water runs off. If the fluid is
thicker than water the scald is deeper.
Burns and scalds are most dangerous
to children if on the chest.
Water will scald long before it gets
as hot as a fame. Water heated to
1870 degrees is as painful to ones hand
as the blaze from a match, which is
more than 600 degrees. Passing ones
hand through blaze that hot gives
little pain, but one would drop a pan
heated to us degrees.
Tablespoonful Of coffee OF soup
heated to $50 degrees can be swallowed
from spoon without hurt, but if the
spoon touches the lips it burns them.
Although the skin on the soles of the
feet is the thickest on the body, one
can not stand on a hot plate which he
could hold in his hand without dis
comfort. -