Burns in Married Women-An Autopsy Based Study

Burn deaths have tremendous medico-legal importance. They are regarded as the commonest cause of unnatural deaths in India. Burning of married females is very common in our country. The present cross sectional study was done on dead bodies of married female victims died due to burn injuries, brought for Autopsy to Midnapore Medical College Mortuary, from May 2014 to April 2015. Maximum no. of cases was of age group 21–30 yrs (37%), 95% were Hindu, 51% victims were educated up to or below 10^th std, 75% were of low socio-economic class, 42% victims had more than 90% of BSA involved, 38% died of shock and 32% due to septicemia, 50% died in winter. Involvement of rural population was 93%.