Milford chronicle., 1941-09-12
Consider Riddles Now
Health Board Urges
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important it is to look both ways
before crossing and to stay on the
side If cars are near? Do the
youngsters understand how traffic
lights work and what the colors
mean? Do they realize that traf-
fic policemen and boy safety pa
trolls are on duty to help them
cross streets or highways safely
and their orders should be obeyed
1t is the duty of parents to in
struct their children about safety
hazards, says DIR. Hynson. Motor
lists, to be sure, need to exercise
all caution as they drive, but this
will not solve the automobile ac-
cidents to children unless the chill
dren themselves are taught not to
dart out behind parked cars, not
to chase balls across the streets,
run after dogs, play tag where cars
are running on streets or high
ways.
Remember, parents, that your
example to your children is most
important. Children are copycats.
If you disregard traffic rules when
you are in hurry, you can expect
your youngsters to do likewise.
Mothers and dads, have you
thought out the safest routes for
your little son and daughter to
take between home and school and
instructed the youngsters to go
and come that way, or is it hit or
miss, just as the children wish?
Bicycles, too, are a potential traf-
fic hazard unless children are
taught to ride them carefully, to
keep on their own side of the road,
and to obey traffic regulations so
car drivers may know what to ex-
pect of them.
The old saying goes "boys will
be boys" but if they knew how
dangerous it is to climb up on
ridgepoles of barns or out on the
limbs of old trees, perhaps there
would not be so many stories in
the papers of hoy breaks Leg"
We want our sons to be healthy
and sturdy-but not foolhardy!
Two Delaware children died of
falls last year and others were
hurt.
Conflagration and accidental
burns caused three deaths of Del
ware children last year-injured
many more. Children playing with
matches or fooling around gas
stoves can easily run up those
figures this year. Train your
children not to play with such
things. Hot liquids and knives are
other kitchen dangers.
Electrical appliances are another
source of danger. Babies or small
children playing with cords of
lamps or electrical equipment may
be hurt.
Keep poisons out of reach of
small fingers so that you will not
suffer the heartbreak that one
family in this state did last year
when their child died from a poi
son left carelessly about.
Many of the above accidents can
happen to small children as well
as those of school age. Accidents
in the baby class include mechan-
ical suffocation, which claimed the
lives of infants in this state last
year.
Be sure there are no little pill
lows in the baby's coach or crib
that can fall on his face and smoth-
er him. Have the bedclothes pin
ned down so that the infant can
not become tangled up in them and
suffocate. Have babies sleep alone,
not with adults or other children
who may roll on them or, while
asleep, unconsciously pull the COW
ers over the infants head and
him.
Nightgowns with draw strings
are another potential danger for
babies as they may become tangled
and cause strangulation. Cribs
with states wide enough for baby's
head to go thru, but not wide
enough for him to pull it out easily,
may also lead to strangulation.
Guarding of children. as parents
know, is an ever present
need if we are to reduce Della
wares figures for childhood acci-
dents and deaths. 1t can be done
II children are trained from baby
hood to be careful. to think for
themselves, and to look before they