1Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, GMERS Medical College, Sola, Ahmedabad
2Assistant Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, SMIMER, Surat
3Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad
4Assisstant Prof., Dept. of Forensic Medicine, BJ Medical College, Ahmedabad
5Associate Professor, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, GMERS Medical College, Sola, Ahmedabad
6Prof. & Head, Dept. of Forensic Medicine, GMERS Medical College, Sola, Ahmedabad
*Corresponding Author: E-mail: rakeshmoree@gmail.com
Online published on 11 October, 2017.
The present, prospective study of unnatural female deaths was carried out at the mortuary of Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad, during the year 2012. A total of 3930 corpses were received for autopsy during that period. Of them, 1238 were female corpses, of which 816 had died because unnatural causes. While looking at different criteria, age group 21–30 years (35.3%), class III (middle class) of modified Prasad classification (42.4%), housewives (51.5%) and married females (66.2%) were the majority in their category. Among the married women, 73.2% were of above 7 years of married life, necessitating magistrate inquest. Burns (46.7%) was most common cause of death, followed by multiple injuries/head injury(27.9%), hanging (14.3%) and poisoning (8.5%). Manner of death was concluded to be accidental in 58.8% of cases, followed by suicidal (37.5%) and homicidal (3.7%).
Autopsy cases, Unnatural female death
