An Epidemiological Retrospective Study of Autopsied Dry Thermal Burn

The present retrospective study has been conducted for the period of 5 years i.e. 2009 to 2013 based on autopsy of the unnatural death cases resulting from burn. During study period out of total 10215 unnatural Death cases death due to burn injuries was 1911. These cases brought to the Department of Forensic Medicine, IMS, BHU, Varanasi. Thermal burn injuries were averaging 18.65%. Female burn deaths dominated over male in the ratio of 3.52:1. Predominant age group found to be 21–30 years (48.72%) followed by age group 11–20 (23.11%). Most of the deceased were from the married group (63%) followed by unmarried (15%). Manner of burn death was unknown in most of the cases (96.86%) followed by accidental burn deaths (2.98%) suicidal (0.1%) and homicidal (.05%). Involvement of rural population is more 92.78% than urban population (6.49%). Religion wise Hindu (96.70%) predominated over other religions.