Chemical burns in Jamaica - an urban social problem - abstract

ABSTRACT

A ten-year survey of admissions for acute burn injury was undertaken in eight hospitals in Jamaica for the period January 1981 to December 1990. Of 4,234 burn admissions, 562 or 13 percent were due to chemical injury and almost half of these resulted from interpersonal violence. More than 80 percent of these patients were admitted to four hospitals situated in urban regions of high population density (AU)