In 1937 Godfrey1recognized accident prevention as a public health problem, but he was without active contemporary support. Ten years later Press2tried to impress on the medical profession the importance of accidental death and crippling in childhood. The following year Wheatley3challenged pediatricians to accept accident prevention as their responsibility. In 1950 I felt compelled to reemphasize the importance of accidents as a major factor in childhood mortality and morbidity and to point out the feasibility of accident prevention in childhood.4In the years intervening since Godfrey's realistically oriented paper, scores of interested writers have presented facts, theories, and suggestions revolving around the tragedy of accidental death and crippling in childhood. Yet somehow, a concerted, unified effort to assail this problem has failed to be activated by the medical profession. In light of knowledge about and awareness of the problem, I cannot refrain from an