Epidemiological trial in domestic accidents

Abstract

The study of domestic accidents covering 3,300 families of Central Government employees of Allahabad revealed that the accident rate was 29 per thousand person years. The age 1-4 years was most vulnerable with a rate of 49 per thousand person years Falls (38.9 per cent) headed the list of causes followed by burns (24.3 per cent) and hit by/against (22.4 per cent). The most frequent sites of accidents were bed/living room and kitchen The interaction of host, agent and environment revealed marked similarity with the type of functions performed at a particular age and at a particular place The average period of retarded activity per accident was 2.5 days and per thousand person years of exposure was 75 days