Frequency of injuries receiving medical treatment by cause and age of occurrence
| Treated injuries per 10 000 months of exposure | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Burns or scalds due to | Fractures, cuts or bruises due to | ||||||||||
| Age of child when accident occurred | Spilling hot drinks | Domestic fires | Other domestic equipment | Other causes | All causes of burns and scalds | Falls from pram or cot | Falls elsewhere | Knives, other sharp edges and to trapped fingers | Other causes | All causes of fractures, cuts and bruises | All treated injuries |
| *Twenty cases of injury have been omitted from this table, eighteen because the cause was unknown, and two because age or stage of development at the time of the accident was not fully recorded. Frequencies are calculated from data given in table 5. | |||||||||||
| Before sitting up | 0.3 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 3.3 | 1.0 | — | — | 0.3 | 1.3 | 4.6 |
| Sitting, but not yet walking | 2.7 | 3.0 | 1.8 | 1.5 | 9.0 | 2.7 | 3.6 | 0.9 | 1.5 | 8.7 | 17.7 |
| Already walking: | |||||||||||
| Up to 16 months | 18.8 | 6.5 | 9.8 | — | 35.1 | 6.5 | 22.1 | 7.3 | 0.8 | 36.7 | 71.8 |
| 17–20 months | 6.8 | 2.2 | 6.8 | 1.7 | 17.5 | 2.8 | 23.1 | 8.5 | 2.8 | 37.2 | 54.7 |
| 21–24 months | 4.3 | 10.3 | 3.8 | 1.1 | 19.5 | 0.5 | 12.4 | 7.6 | 2.2 | 22.7 | 42.2 |
| All ages | 4.7 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 1.3 | 13.4 | 2.3 | 9.2 | 3.7 | 1.4 | 16.6 | 30.0 |
| Total No of accidents | 53 | 44 | 39 | 14 | 150 | 26 | 103 | 41 | 16 | 186 | 336* |
| Percentage of all accidents due to different causes | 15.8 | 13.1 | 11.6 | 4.1 | 44.6 | 7.7 | 30.7 | 12.2 | 4.8 | 55.4 | 100.0 |