DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2015.v03i02.051

Pages: 789-796

Death is unnatural when caused prematurely against the order of nature by injury, position or other means of violence. In India there is noticeable increase in unnatural death of female. Aim of our study is to find out most common age group, marital status, socio-economic status, religion, region, education, occupation, cause of death and manner of death in unnatural female death. A total number of 392 cases of unnatural female deaths were distinguished during study period. Most of the unnatural female deaths were seen in younger age group 21-30 years (44.39%), rural (76.78%) and educated upto high school (38.52%). The majority of females were Hindu (80.30%), married (81.12%) and housewives (50.76%) of low socioeconomic status (55.35%). Most common cause of deaths was burns (61.99%) followed by poisoning (17.09%). Majority of deaths was accidental (62.75) in nature.