El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-12

The wife is by no means exempt
/ She has her own home per1ls TO encoun-
/ ter. If she does any cooking, she is
bound to burn or scald herself severely
now and then Her curling iron Is
( source of danger unless she handles It
carefully. The gas stove, If out OF or
der, may suffocate her with carbon
I monOXid
From the very moment of our en-
! trance into this world Of toll and trOu-
( bic we are exposed to accidents. Every
! year in this country, says the census
} bureau. 5000 babies die from accidental
! injuries inflicted at birth These might
fairly be classed among the perils of
I home. inaSmuch as home IS the place
where babies usually are born.
Now. how about your own eXpecta-
ton of death or disabling injury due
TO ACCIDENT What chance have you OF
Danger of Accidental Death.
You are four times as likely to meet
a violent death as to die of old age
But. of course, this is accounted for by
the fact that most people are carried
of by disease long befoi'e reaching the
period OF ultimate senile decay In the
United States 100000 persons meet vio-
without counting suicides and homi-
If YOU are a man the chance is near
" one in ten that you will die sooner
or later from an accident of one KIND
OF another. Women are not exposed
TO fatal mishaps TO any such extent
Each year one man in every seven
meets with disabling accident
Among women the ratio is one in Il
If an average man could live 1000
years he would suffer 143 disabling
accidents. OF these, 4S would be mel
dental to his work, % would occur on
the streets, and Is would interrupt his
amusements- During the period mem
toned he would lose one leg or arm;
he would have an even chance to be
killed once: he would receive internal
injuries twice: his head or face would
be severely damaged y times; MS
arms or hands p times; his legs or
feet. 26 times, and his fingers As times.
About SO percent of all disabling IN
juries are to the fingers
L. Percent of Accidents on Streets.
Twelve percent of all accidents TO
people in cities happen on the streets
If the average citizen should meet with
100 serious mishaps on his walks
abroad. he would have IS bad tumbleS;
he would be hurt 10 times in boarding
or dismoUnting from cars; he would
be knocked down or otherwise injured
bv horses and vehicles six times, and
he would be bitten by dogs four times.
The rest of his mischances would be
miscellaneous
Modern civilization in some Of its
aspects is humane In other ways II
is a wholesale destroyer. The manu-
featuring industries MAIN and Kill on
large scale.
Most dangerous of all mechanical
occupations, apparently, IS that OF
workers in iron and steel The chem
ical industries come next-particu-
larry the manufacture of nitrate and
sulphuric acids, which are liable to
explode. Naturally, the making Of ex-
pIOsives, such as gunpowder and dyna-
mite IS attended with eXcepuoam per-
lis And the same is true of matches,
anart entirely from the malady, so
common among matchmakers, known
as 'phOssy jaw
Machinery kills More Than Battles.
Machinery claims more victims am
r.1H IN, hD 10 n he
civil war One in every four car
penters is hurt each year Buzz saws
do a good deal of damage to carpen-
ters: tools cut them, UmberS fall upon
them. stagings collapse beneath them.
and they are subject to other KINDS OIL
accidents Farmers have about the
same accident rate as carpenters Lhey
operate machinery, and much OF their
work is done with horses
Horses are dangerous animals They
cause nearly 5000 deaths per annum IN
this country Twelve percent OF al
fatal or disa bling accidents are attribu-
table TO them OF deaths incurred in
cidenta1 to transportation, the horse
is responsible for 20 percent In 100
mishaps where horses are concerned,
a person will be pitched out of vehi-
cles y times, kicked 10 times, knocked
down u times, bitten three times, dam
aged IN getting IN or out of vehicles
eight times, stepped on eight times,
and thrown three times
Autos Not Very Safe.
Whatever the motoring enthusiast
may urge in behalf of automobiles, he
can hardly claim that they are very
safe. In this country, on an average,
they kill four persons every day in the
year. A remarkably large percentage
of these killings Gas the daily news
papers will show is due to the prac-
tice of trying to cross railroad tracks
ahead of approaching trains, or with
out taking the trouble to make sure
that the line is clear. Somehow it
would seem as if the habit of driving
an automobile tended to engender reck- !
lessneSs.
Sixty thousand people are killed or
injured on the railroads of the United
States every year Wellington won
Waterloo and Meade the battle of Get
tESburg, with losses OF 23,1S5, and
., 600 respectively The total losses /
on both sides at Shiloh in two DAYS
murderous fighting did not reach "a
600. But, as already stated, it is not /
the passengers who suffer, relatively |
speaking And the worst victims are /
the railway mail clerks, 400 of whom /
are killed or wounded each year-that |
sonnet. They are exposed not only to !
the ordinary miShapS of travel but to 1
by robbers, against whom they I
are expected to defend the mail with /
Water Claims $500 Annually.
Thlrty-f1ve hundred people in this /
country perish by drowning every year, /
of them men and BOYS
About 225O die of burns and scalds and !
Of these tWo-thirds are females Six
hundred persons are smothered to /
death by gas or other means. and about I
the same number are killed bv sun /
stroke More than twice as many
women die of surgical operations as
men.
Suicide is the chief cause Of violent
deaths It fills more graves than the
locomotive In each 100000 of popula-
ton Is are killed annually by the rail-
roads. while IS take their own lives
that Is to say, a total of over $4,000 /
persons per annum. Poison is the IA
vorite means Of self-destruction. espe-
cially with women Shooting comes |
second Though rarely employed by