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Mcallen Daily Press
Mcallen, Hidalgo County, Texas
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Metropolitan Life Insurance Company statisticians project 93,000 accident deaths in the US for 1939, 10,000 fewer than 1938, assuming no late-year catastrophes. Motor vehicle deaths match 1938's 32,400; home deaths up by 100; employment accidents show lower increase due to 1938's employment levels. Reduction attributed to safer living and less destructive disasters.
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NEW YORK, N.Y. Dec 27
The American casualty list for 1939 will include 93,000 persons killed in accidents or 10,000 less than the total for 1938, according to the statisticians of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company who late in December based their calculation on the supposition that no major catastrophes would occur during the last few days of the year. Motor vehicle accident deaths for 1939 will approximate the 1938 total of 32,400. Deaths in the home will be a hundred more than in the same [period]. It will be true of accidents arising in the course of employment [with a] lower increase due to lower level of employment in 1938.
The reduction in accident fatality rate was made possible because nature was kinder to us, our people lived more safely, statisticians pointed out. Tornadoes and other disasters were not as destructive of life as in other years, wherein the neighborhood fewer deaths occurred in 1939 in accidents.
At least one-tenth in the United States die
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New York N Y
Event Date
Dec 27 1939
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93,000 persons killed in accidents (10,000 less than 1938); motor vehicle accident deaths: 32,400 (same as 1938); deaths in the home: 100 more than 1938; accidents in employment: lower increase due to lower employment in 1938
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Projection of American casualty list for 1939 based on calculations assuming no major catastrophes at year-end; reduction in fatality rate due to kinder nature, safer living, and less destructive tornadoes and disasters