A descriptive study on trend of unnatural deaths in varanasi, India

Thanatology deals with death in all aspects. Section 46 IPC death denotes death of a human being unless the contrary appears from the context. The cause of death is the disease or injury responsible for starting the sequence of events, which are brief or prolonged and which produce death. Present study is carried out at forensic medicine department, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. Relevant information and subjective data like age, sex, marital status and manner of death have been collected from medico legal autopsy register. Data are analyzed retrospective for periods of five years from 2009 to 2013. Aims of the present study are to find out to know how pattern of unnatural deaths affect incidence, age, sex, marital status, religion, manner of death in community and to out find remedial measures to bring down the incidence. Road traffic accident 38.9% contributes most common. 21 to 30 year ages were most common age group affected 28.7%. Male were outnumber 70.5 %, female 29.4%, married people 21.6%, Hindu were major cause 84.9%, accidental 45.1. Strict implementation of traffic rules regulation, with special attention to be paid to: Drunken drivers, Unskilled or semiskilled drivers.