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ACCORDING to the Journal of the American Medical Association of August 10, p. 470, the United States Bureau of the Census recently published a statistical study of fatal accidents in the six years 1933—1938. In 1933, fatalities from accidents totalled 90,932, and thereafter the number rose to a maximum of 110,052 in 1936. Then it decreased to 93,805 in 1938. Deaths caused by fires, which ranked seventh among all accidental causes during 1933–37, advanced to the sixth place in 1938. Figures for the successive years were 1,521 in 1933, 1,752 in 1934, 1,581 in 1935, 1,913 in 1936, 1,688 in 1937 and 1,650 in 1938. There were more victims from fire in the age group 5–9 than in any other group in 1938; there were 129 deaths in this group, which was 7·8 per cent of all persons burnt to death. The next largest number was in the group 50–54 with 109 deaths. Only 18·3 per cent of deaths from injury by fall occurred among persons less than forty-five years of age, who form 77 per cent of the population, but 55·8 per cent of the motor fatalities and 91·3 per cent of aeroplane fatalities were in this younger group.
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Fatal Accidents in the United States. Nature 146, 456 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146456d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/146456d0