Excerpt from Fourth of July Injuries and Tetanus: The Seventh Annual Compilation by the Journal of the American Medical Association; A Plea for a Safe and Sane Fourth For the seventh consecutive year we are presenting statistics of injuries received during the celebration of the Fourth of July, with particular reference to tetanus resulting from these injuries. Considerable effort has been made to secure reliable data, and all serious cases have been carefully investigated, so that, so far as the figures go, dependence may be placed on them. We have. Received thousands of letters from physicians in all parts of the country, reporting cases which otherwise could not have been included in the statistics. There are doubt less thousands Of other cases not reported, although chiefly minor injuries. Our thanks are due for the many careful reports which have made these statistics more complete and the figures more reliable. The data are presented in the same manner as heretofore, in order that comparison may be made. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.