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Home accidents

Images

  • A man being given a steam bath that is going drastically wrong. Wood engraving.
  • A boy has cut his finger which is being treated by his mother; two other siblings hold him back while he resists. Coloured etching (?) after D. Wilkie, 18--.
  • A woman's chemise catches fire. Coloured photomechanical reproduction after A. Legrand after J.H. Fragonard.
  • An opened electric plug, an electric flex with exposed wires, and a newspaper article about death caused by a wrongly wired plug. Colour lithograph after Robin Day.
  • Protect your child from fire : close fitting garments plus fire guards spell safety : see also our pamphlet "A child in danger" / Fire Offices' Committee, Fire Protection Association, London.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Child accidents in the home : how to avoid them and what if they happen / Boots.

    | Date: [1994?]
    • Books

    Help yourself to gas safety / British Gas.

    | Date: [1978?]
    • Books

    So you think you're safe at home? / Produced by the Consumer Safety Unit of the DTI with ... the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

    | Date: 1992
    • Books

    Safety in the home : a guide for parents of babies and young children / Boots.

    | Date: 1999]
    • Books

    Hands off! : how to stop children getting burns from cookers and heaters / written by the Gas and Electricity Consumers' Councils and RoSPA.

    | Date: [Between 1990 and 1994]
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