TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1934//
TI  - Carbon monoxide poisoning
JO  - Journal of the American Medical Association
A1  - Martland, Harrison S.
SP  - 643
EP  - 648
VL  - 103
IS  - 9
N2  - Highway accidents and asphyxiations from carbon monoxide greatly exceed all other forms of violent death and the investigation of such deaths constitutes a very large and important part of the medical examiner's work.It is now a well known fact that in the United States the automobile causes about 30,000 deaths a year and injures close to a million, with a resultant cost of many billion dollars per year. Furthermore, in the last five years little has been accomplished in the prevention of such accidents.The total number of deaths from carbon monoxide is more difficult to estimate, since, in many localities, bureaus of vital statistics and departments of health separate suicidal from accidental asphyxiations. Further, the very low ebb to which forensic medicine has sunk in this country, owing to an ancient, politically bad coroner's system, renders investigations inaccurate and often of no value.It may be roughly assumed,<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0002-9955
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1934.02750350007003
ID  - ref1
ER  -