Table 4

Stress and abuse versus occupational class in inpatient scald burns

Occupational class*StressAbuse
*From A B Hollingshead, unpublished data, 1956.
1–44/13 (30.8%)0/13 (0.0%)
52/10 (20.0%)2/10 (20.0%)
65/10 (50.0%)3/10 (30.0%)
716/23 (69.6%)11/23 (47.8%)
Total27/56 (37.5%)16/56 (28.6%)
χ23p<0.05p<0.025