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I, in Richland County, Ohio, known as the home safety notebook project, sought to motivate families to keep a record of injuries in the home. It appears to have, demonstrated that such families soon establish safety patterns that perceptibly reduce the rate of injuries.The project was undertaken by the health committee of the Mansfield Parent-Teacher Association Council in cooperation with the home safety program of the Mansfield-Richland County Health Department. Two major purposes were (a) to test acceptability to homemakers of the methods used and (b) to measure change in frequency of injuries during a 16-week period. In addition, data on type of injury, location and activity of persons at the time of injury, parts of the body injured,, and other injury characteristics were to be obtained.The Mansfield-Richland County Health Department is 1 of 3 local health departments in the Nation carrying on a 5-year home safety program through a grant from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. The home safety notebook project is one of many projects developed Dr. Wain, who has been in local public health work in Ohio since 1939, is health commissioner of the Mansfield-Richland County Health Department in that State: Mr. Samuelson is director of the health department's community home safety program. Dr. Hemphill is associate professor of public health sta-

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