Evening star., 1936-06-20
ACCIDENTS COST
LIVES OF 100000
93,400 Suffer Injuries in
1935-37,OOO Lose Lives
in Car MishapS.

Some 100000 persons lost their lives
In accidents in the United States
during 1885. according to figures just
released by the National Safety
Council.
An additional $4,000 persons
suffered non-fatal injuries in ac-
cidents of one sort or another. To
pay the cost of their disregard for
rules of safety" the council said,
Americans dug into their pockets for
$3,45O,0 00O,Oo0-or about $2705 for
each of the Nations 1851 900 men,
women and children.
Accidents killed 274 persons every
"a hours, the council said, estimating
that the daily bill for lost income,
doctor and hospital fees and other
overhead cost of insurance alone was
$9,5O0O00.
Automobile accidents took the
greatest toll, setting a new all-time
record of $1,000 deaths in 1885 The
years total also showed 105 900 per-
sons were permanently disabled and
100000 temporarily disabled in
motor vehicle mishapS.
Another set of figures listed 3l,50O
deaths in accidents that occurred in
homes, placed at 100000 the number
of persons permanently disabled and
at 4,460,000 the number temporarily
disabled.
The third largest number of per-
sons, $4,000, died in public accidents
drowningS, burns, falls, heat prostra-
ton deaths by freezing. railroad ac-
Ctdents firearms accidents, poisonings,
etc. This type of accident was re-
sponSible for permanently disabling
injuries to $4,000 and for temporarily
disabling injuries to 100000
Occupational accidents, those Suf-
fered while engaged in gainful en-
ployment, chained $500 lives. 500
more than in 1884, and inflicted per-
manent disability upon $4,000. Less
serious injuries we're suffered by
1906 900.
Of the total number killed in ac-
cidents during 1885, 1890 we're be.
tween 25 and "a years of age. Other
HASN SAOtAkJo SlL1A IIlS IluIIlDSI OF dCCl-
dental deaths which occurred in them
were; Less than years, $500; S to
IA years Of age, 1900; Is to "a years
13,400; IS years or more, 24,60O.
Motor vehicle accidents took the
largest toll in each age group. except
the less than years" and "65 years
or more classifcations Automobile
accidents as a cause of death were
second to burns" in the former grour
and second to falls" in the latter
group.
Fire, which the council said annu-
ally takes an average of 5000 lives
caused s250,o00,000 in property dam
age during 1885. Matches and the
fire hazard connected with smoking
cigars, pipes and cigarettes; defective
chimneyS and flues, petroleum fires
and defective stoves, furnaces and
boilers, were given as the principal
causes Of the years conflagrations.
OF the total of occupational deaths
agricultural pursuits, caused more &C.
cldental deaths, 4,400, than any other
Classification of gainful employment
Trade and service industries were next
with 1000 fatalities Construction
operations with $500 deaths was third
on the list, while about 1900 deaths
were suffered by workers in mining
quarrying and other extractive indus
tries. In the transportation and pub
lie utilities industries there were 2,I0C
accidental deaths and manufacturing
accounted for 1900 fatal accidents.
The council said however. proof OF
the progress in industrial safety in the
United States is offered in statistics
for 1885 that show the accident fire.
quency rate disabling injuries per
million man-hours of exposure) 81 per
cent below the rate for 1926. These
figures, it was explained, were taken
from reports of only those companies
which have been carrying on con-
tinuouS programs of accident pre-
Vention. This select group, said the
council, also has a 1885 accident
severity rate days lost per 1000 man
hours worked that is 43 per cent be-
low 1926.