Industrial accidents occur more frequently to those who drink alcohol. Lithograph, 1917.

Date:
Reprinted 1930
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679994i
Part of:
Why America went dry.
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Description

Right, a figure of the "wound man": a fitter attaching a bolt to a drum, with a key indicating different accidents which are liable to occur to different parts of the body

Publication/Creation

Westerville, O[hio], U.S.A. : Published by The American Issue Publishing Company, Reprinted 1930.

Physical description

1 print : lithograph ; sheet 91.7 x 61.3 cm

Lettering

Small accidents that might happen to you. Insured drinkers had three and one-fifth times as many small accidents as the average insured worker. Sobriety boosts safety. ... Prepared and copyrighted 1917 by the Scientific Temperance Federation, Boston, Mass. Statistics from Leipsic Sick societies 1910

Creator/production credits

The Scientific Temperance Foundation was a successor to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, based in Boston, Mass.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 679994i

Notes

Lacks series statement "Why America went dry" which is found on other works in series with this one

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