MEDICO-LEGAL STUDY OF TIME AND SITE OF INCIDENCE AND SEASONAL VARIATION OF UNNATURAL DEATH DUE TO DRY THERMAL BURN AT VARANASI; INDIA

Author: 
Awdhesh kumar, Mayank Gupta, Navin kumar and Manoj Kumar
Country: 
India
Abstract: 

Unnatural death- is a category used by coroners and vital statistics specialists for classifying all human deaths not properly describable as death by natural causes. Burn injuries are dry thermal injury caused
due to contact with dry heat such as flame, radiant heat or some heated solid substance like metal or glass, to the body surface. Incidence is a measure of the probability of occurrence of a given medical condition. Seasonal variation is a component of a time series which is defined as the repetitive and predictable movement around the trend line in one year or less. Present prospective study was carried out on the unnatural burn death cases brought by police to the Department of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University. Aim of the study to find out how dry thermal burn affect time of
incidence and seasonal variation. To highlights problem regarding burn deaths. Times of incidence of burn were at evening, 247 cases i.e. 54.89%. Place of incidence in bulk of victim were during kitchen activity
256 cases i.e. 56.89%. More number of cases in summer season 53.33% followed by rainy season 25.78%. Conclusion and suggestion need to education, promoting women liberation, running anti-dowry
campaigns, counseling / guidance

KeyWords: 

Unnatural death; Medico-legal study; Dowry death; Burn; Forensic medicine; Time of incidence;Seasonal variation

Volume & Issue: 
Vol. 1, Issue 3
Pages: 
63-67
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