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ONE OF the most satisfying events of family life is tucking the little ones into bed at the end of a day.

Jt should be. For the little ones have just survived another day in one of the most dangerous en- vironments they will ever know — their own homes.

Their greatest risk is from poisoning. Like most homes, yours is filled with poisonous substances that could endanger you or your children.

Each day in Canada more than 130 children are poisoned by some agent commonly found in the home. Each year 50,000 children try to eat a household poison.

Most at risk are small children, attracted by an array of colorful and deadly pills and other harmful chemicals in the home. Approx- imately 90 per cent of the poison victims are under five years old.

The average Canadian home stores about 250 kinds of different chemical poisons, And most are

found in the bathroom in the form of those coiorfully bright litle capsules and candy-shaped pills you take for headaches and other adult filnesses.

Topping the list of household poisons is regular jaundry bleach followed by baby and then adult headache tablets. Fourth on the list, afflicting young and old, are bee and wasp stings, which for some people can be fatal.

Other dangerous items include mothballs, cigarettes, fruit pits and birth contro! pills.

Not all of the dangerous substances found around the home are in pill bottles. Nature provides enough household poisons in your prized plants to create Canada’s No. J poison control problem.

Such common plants as Diefen- bachia, Honeysuckle, English Ivy, Jerusalem Cherry, Nightshade, Crocus, Hyacynth and Daffodil bulbs, leaves from tomato plants and ornamental yew, can cause either death or serious illness in-

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could prove fatal

‘‘Deadly Nightshade’’, for exam-

ple, can be fatal.

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