Abstract
With the willing co-operation of colleagues in all branches of the National Health Service a medico-social survey was held of the home circumstances of cases of accidental hypothermia arising in Hertfordshire during the winters of 1966–7 and 1967–8. There were 25 cases reported, 15 of which were fatal. In many of these cases the death appeared to be the result of the primary disease, not the hypothermia. It is difficult to suggest any further simple specific measures in addition to those recommended by the B.M.A. Memorandum on accidental hypothermia (1964) and the report of the Committee on Accidental Hypothermia of the Royal College of Physicians (1966) to reduce the morbidity and mortality from this condition.
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