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6 The Health Bulletin February, 1955the total responsibility of the parents.Parents must be impressed with theimportance of investigating all solidsand liquids—medicine, cosmetics, cleaningagents, paints, solvents, preservatives—whichare within the reach ofthe child, keeping in mind at all timesthe toddler's remarkable climbing abilityand removing all the known orquestionable toxic materials. Old prescriptionsand highly toxic materialsshould be discarded from the home ina safe manner, such as by burning orburying. Certain non-toxic cleaningagents may be substituted for the highlytoxic caustics and alkalis. Thosemedicines and other chemicals, absolutelyessential to home operation, maythen be stored in a special lockedcabinet completely inaccessible to thechild.The education of the parent as tothe importance of this two-step procedure—removalfrom the home ofthe useless and most toxic, and totallyand completely locking up that whichremains—must fall to all those individualsand agencies which influenceparents and family living today. Almostdaily the impracticability and lackof success of safety campaigns, specialdays, weeks and months and widespreaduse of mass media for safety educationis more clearly demonstrated to safetyleaders. Learning is most efficient whenbased on firm footings of intra-personalrelationships and it will be the "faceto-face"teaching of safety by physicians,public health personnel and professionaland lay adult educators thatholds the most promise for controllingAmerica's growing accident problem.Until such time as this method ofsafety education may gain momentumin North Carolina, the reductionof poison deaths may rest heavily onthe ready availability of competentmedical aid to counteract the effectsof the poison. To meet this need, withinrecent months the Duke UniversitySchool of Medicine has established aPoison Control Center, patterned tosome degree after the initial endeavorof this type in the Chicago area.» TheDurham institution offers not onlytwenty-four-hour treatment facilitiesfor poison victims brought tothe hospitalbut also ready information forphysicians as to the constituents ofmost toxic agents, the antidotes andmethods of treatment. This informationcan be obtained by anyone in thetristate area day or night by callingDuke Hospital.The control of accidental deaths frompoisons may be looked to as anotherexample of the necessity for the skillfulblending of preventive and curativemeasures which holds promise ofsavingthe lives of scores of North Carolinianseach year.BIBLIOGRAPHY1. Bain, Katherine, M. D., "DEATH DUE TO ACCIDENTAL POISONING INYOUNG CHILDREN," Reprint from The Journal of Pediatrics, Vol. 44, No.6, 616-623, (June 1954).2. Proceedings of the first conference on "HOME ACCIDENT PREVENTION,"Sec. I, p. 20, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, Michigan, (Jan. 20, 21,and 22, 1953).3. Dietrich, Harry F., M. D., "ACCIDENTS, CHILDHOOD'S GREATEST PHYSI-CAL THREAT, ARE PREVENTABLE," Reprint from Journal of The AmericanMedical Association, Vol. 144, 1175 - 1179, (Dec. 2, 1950).4. Arena, Jay M., M.D., "POISONING IN CHILDREN—RECENT TRENDS,"N. C. Medical Journal, Vol. 15, No. 11, 555, (Nov. 1954).5. Press, Edward, M. D., and Mellins, Robert B., M. D., "A POISONING CON-TROL PROGRAM," American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 44, No. 12, 1515,(Dec. 1954).
February, 1955The Health BulletinGRAPH IAccidental Poisoning DeathsNorth Carolina— 19532$20NO. *£DEATHS100-5 5-lij. 0S-22l 25-Mi- ^4-64 65 & overAGE
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