[Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Denbighshire County Council.

  • Denbighshire (Wales). County Council. no2004062613.
Date:
1951
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Credit: [Report 1951] / Medical Officer of Health, Denbighshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    guard their children against the risk of injury whether at school or at play. Some toy may, in the hands of a ch.ild, become a dangerous weapon, and I have attended to wounds so caused. After seeing a young boy who had nearly lost the sight an eye following the explosion of a firework, I decided to communicate with the General Practitioners in the County to ascertain the number of such accidents that had been sufficiently severe to require medical attention. Pyrotechnic accidents become prevalent around the 5th November, and accidents of varying severity are reported in the press About a week after this date, all the doctors .hi the County were requested to complete a brief questionnaire and all except seven were returned duly coni- ])leted. 1 would express my grateful appreciation for such an excellent response in completing yet another return for the County Medical Officer of Health. There were fifteen children in the County who* had re- ceived injuries necessitating medical attention. Mainly they were burns of hands, face, eyelids and legs, but there were wounds of fingers, hands, eyelids, iris and eye. These were mainly classified as of moderate severity, but at least two were severe, and, of these, one resulted in the loss of the sight ol an eye. Fortunately, in 1951, there was not much serious injury but it is evident that fireworks must be handled with circumspection and parents should supervise with care the annual bonfire and fireworks. A few' of the doctors expressed the op.mion that propaganda on the ^vireless and stricter jrarental control of bonfires had api)reciably decreased the numbers of accidents due to fireworks.