Medico-Legal Update
  • Year: 2015
  • Volume: 15
  • Issue: 1

A Retrospective Study of Pattern of Un-Natural Deaths: an Autopsy Study at Victoria Hospital Mortuary, Bangalore

1Assistant Professor, Victoria Hospital

2Medical Superintendent, Victoria Hospital

3Associate Professor and Head of the Department, Department of Forensic Medicine, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Bangalore

*Corresponding author: Pradeep Kumar MP, Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Bangalore Medical, College and Research Institute, Bangalore-560002. E-mail: prdp326@gmail.com

Online published on 19 January, 2015.

Abstract

Death due to un-natural causes is a major burden to the society, especially in a developing country like India, wherein if a working youth or a bread earner to the family dies. An effort to highlight the major deaths due to un-natural causes is made in this piece of literature. This study is a retrospective study based on facts and details available at Department of Forensic Medicine, Victoria Hospital, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Bangalore.

Keywords

Un-Natural Deaths, Bangalore, Forensic Medicine, pattern