DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2014.v02i04.051

Pages: 1397-1401

India is a vast country having plenty of water supplies from rivers, ponds, well and an extensive sea coast. So drowning is one of the most common causes of death in all manners of death in this country. The present study is a retrospective study of two years from 2010 to 2011. This study was done in the mortuary of Rangaraya Medical College, Kakinada, Andhra Pradesh. We studied total 1315 cases in two years. Out of this 90 cases were drowning. It occupies 5th place in the cause of death. Out of 90 cases the total number of known cases were 73 (81.11%) and unknown cases were 17(18.88%), 57 were males (63.33 %) and 33 were females (36.67 %). 41 cases were married, in which 23 males (47.32%) and 18 females (42.55%) and 32 cases are unmarried out of which 21 are males (50.31%) and 11 females (22.09 %)