Number of injuries receiving medical treatment by cause and age at occurrence
| No of injuries due to different causes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burns or scalds due to | Fractures cuts or bad bruises due to | |||||||||||
| Age of children when accident occurred | Length of exposure (in child months) | Spilling hot drinks | Domestic fires | Other domestic equipment | Other causes | All causes | Falls from pram or cot | Other causes | Cuts on sharp edges, etc | Other causes | All causes | All* treated injuries |
| *Twenty cases of injury have been omitted from this table, eighteen because their causes were unknown, and two because the ages at the time of the accidents were not fully recorded. | ||||||||||||
| Before sitting up | 30636 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 3 | — | — | 1 | 4 | 14 |
| Sitting, not yet walking | 33043 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 5 | 30 | 9 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 29 | 59 |
| Already walking: | ||||||||||||
| Up to 16 months | 12234 | 23 | 8 | 12 | — | 43 | 8 | 27 | 9 | 1 | 45 | 88 |
| 17–20 months | 17725 | 12 | 4 | 12 | 3 | 31 | 5 | 41 | 15 | 5 | 66 | 97 |
| 21–26 months | 18490 | 8 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 36 | 1 | 23 | 14 | 4 | 42 | 78 |
| All ages | 112128 | 53 | 44 | 39 | 14 | 150 | 26 | 103 | 41 | 16 | 186 | 336 |