No of injuries treated by the following agencies* | ||||||||||||
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Hospitals | ||||||||||||
Accident or other wards | Outpatients' departments | General practitioners | Untreated | |||||||||
Social class | Total No of children in the sample | Burns or scalds | Cuts or bruises | Fractures | Burns or scalds | Cuts or bruises | Fractures | Burns or scalds | Cuts or bruises | Fractures | Burns or scalds | Cuts or bruises |
*Nine injuries were excluded from this table because the source of treatment was unknown. | ||||||||||||
†Corrections were made for sampling by multiplying the numbers in the manual workers and `other occupations' groups by 4, that is the reciprocal of the sampling fraction. Rates for accidents of different types receiving treatment from different sources (see table 2) were calculated by dividing this corrected total in each column by the (corrected) total for all children. | ||||||||||||
Professional and salaried | 894 | 4 | — | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 18 | 21 | 2 | 24 | 12 |
Black-coated wage earners | 1207 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 22 | 5 | 26 | 20 | 4 | 48 | 27 |
Manual workers | 1914 | 10 | — | 2 | 19 | 25 | 10 | 47 | 48 | 2 | 71 | 54 |
Agricultural workers | 488 | 1 | — | 1 | — | 1 | 1 | 11 | 13 | 1 | 21 | 9 |
“Other occupations” | 180 | 2 | — | — | — | 3 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
All classes corrected† total | 10965 | 56 | 2 | 13 | 83 | 142 | 54 | 267 | 258 | 15 | 389 | 288 |