1Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Govt. Medical College, TB Campus, Ramnagar, Chandrapur, Maharashtra, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine, Govt. Medical College, TB Campus, Ramnagar, Chandrapur, Maharashtra, India
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Shashikant V. Dhoble, Department of Forensic Medicine, Govt. Medical College, Chandrapur TB Campus, Ramnagar, Chandrapur, Maharashtra, India-442402 Email ID: svdfmt@gmail.com Contact no. 9422761165; 9833407884
Online published on 6 January, 2018.
Burns have tremendous medicolegal importance as they may be considered to be the commonest cause of unnatural death in India1. In this study total 43 cases of burns deaths were explored in one year. Most commonly affected age group was of young aged of 20–40 yrs (69.77%) followed by 40–60 yrs (16.28%). Most of the victims were illiterate (34.88%) & (79.07%) cases were of married. Females were leading to male; amongst them most of were housewives of Hindu families of lower middle socio-economic class. The most of victims (51.16%) sustained 76–100% burns followed by 51–75% burns (34.88%). Most common manner of death was accidental burns (95.35%).
Burns, unnatural death, accidental, females
