Accidents to old people in their homes.

Among young people the morbidity and mortality attributable to traffic accidents is already reaching disturbing proportions, but various kinds of accidents to older people are no less serious a medico-social problem of the times. A society like our own, with a large and still-increasing proportion of the elderly, must do everything possible to reduce the high accident rate among them because, humanitarian considerations apart, it throws a disproportionate strain upon medical, surgical, orthopaedic, and social services.