Abstract
Globally, nearly 96 000 children under the age of 20 were fatally injured as a result of a fire-related burn in 2004 alone. The death rate in low-income and middle-income countries is eleven times higher than that in high-income countries 4.3 per 100 000 as against 0.4 per 100000. The fire related death rate for girls worldwide is 4.9 per 100 000 population versus 3.0 per 100 000 for boys. In our study of 81 autopsy cases of fatal burn injuries, 18(22.2%) were male and 63(77.8%) were female, 61(75.3%) cases were dry burns and 20(24.7%) cases were scalds, 45(55.6%) cases were death due to Septicaemia,, 26(32.1%) cases died due to shock and 10(12.3%) cases were death due to Toxaemia.
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