TY - JOUR
T1 - Fatal House Fires in an Urban Population
AU - Mierley, Marianne C.
AU - Baker, Susan P.
PY - 1983/3/18
Y1 - 1983/3/18
N2 - House fires kill about 5,000 Americans annually, at a rate (2/100,000) that has remained almost constant for the past 50 years. House-fire deaths were studied in Baltimore, where 55 residents died during a three-year period. More than half of the deaths resulted from cigarette-ignited fires; 39% of the people who died in such fires were not the cigarette smokers themselves. For both blacks and whites, the death rate was highest in census tracts where property rental values were low. The death rate from fires ignited by heating or electrical equipment was nine times as high in the lowest-value census tracts as in the highest.
AB - House fires kill about 5,000 Americans annually, at a rate (2/100,000) that has remained almost constant for the past 50 years. House-fire deaths were studied in Baltimore, where 55 residents died during a three-year period. More than half of the deaths resulted from cigarette-ignited fires; 39% of the people who died in such fires were not the cigarette smokers themselves. For both blacks and whites, the death rate was highest in census tracts where property rental values were low. The death rate from fires ignited by heating or electrical equipment was nine times as high in the lowest-value census tracts as in the highest.
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U2 - 10.1001/jama.1983.03330350042024
DO - 10.1001/jama.1983.03330350042024
M3 - Article
C2 - 6827724
AN - SCOPUS:0020660114
SN - 0098-7484
VL - 249
SP - 1466
EP - 1468
JO - JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
JF - JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association
IS - 11
ER -