Citation

Jordan LB, Squires TJ, Busuttil A. J. Clin. Forensic Med. 1999; 6(4): 233-237.

Affiliation

Forensic Medicine Unit, Department of pathology, University Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

15335469

Abstract

Fatal house fires occur more frequently in Scotland than elsewhere in Great Britain.(1,2) Over the last few years several educational campaigns were initiated to instruct the public in the risk factors associated with such fire fatalities and to promote the installation of functional domestic smoke detectors. An epidemiological survey of house fire deaths in the Lothian and Borders region of Scotland over the first half of the present decade, was carried out to evaluate any changing incidence trends by comparison with a survey of the fatalities from the first half of the previous decade. The impact of such campaigns in reducing house fires appears to be limited.