Bathtubs kill more people than traffic accidents

The number of deaths in bathtubs in Japan amounted to 14,000 per year, more than three times the number of deaths from road accidents.

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare decided to investigate deaths in the bathroom after statistics showed that the bath was a rather dangerous place in the Japanese home, Mainichi said. The latest statistical results show that the number of deaths in baths annually is 14,000, while the number of people who die from traffic accidents in 2011 is 4,612. Most of the victims died in the bathtub as the elderly.

Bath plays an important role in Japanese families.

The role of baths in Japanese family and society could be the reason many people lost their lives because of it. Bathing is not the most important goal of Japanese people as they enter the bathroom. The main function of the bath is to help people relax after completing the day's work. In many communities, bathtubs help older people stay warm in the winter.

Underwater breathing, rapid heartbeat, hemorrhage in the brain, heart attack are the leading causes of deaths in baths. The number of people dying the moon in the winter months, when the elderly move from the warm rooms in the house to the bathroom and heat shock.

Many social organizations require the government to issue guidance on how to use safe baths, such as encouraging people not to let the temperature difference too large between two rooms in the house, to dip their bodies slowly into Hot water and plenty of water before bathing.