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THE LARGE NUMBER of children who are accidentally injured or killed each year makes it urgent to develop effective means to re¬ duce the frequency and severity of childhood injuries. As a step toward reducing accidents, the California State Department of Public Health in 1955 undertook a series of investiga¬ tions {1-4) culminating in a large-scale study of childhood accidents. This paper, on the first phase of this study, describes in detail the distribution of injury rates for the study popu¬ lation as a whole and for subgroups determined by age, sex, race, and sibling order. It includes Mr. Manheimer is director of the Family Research