Fatal house fires in an urban population
M. C. Mierley and S. P. Baker
House fires kill about 5,000 Americans annually, at a rate (2/100,000) that
has remained almost constant for the past 50 years. House-fire deaths were
studied in Baltimore, where 55 residents died during a three-year period.
More than half of the deaths resulted from cigarette-ignited fires; 39% of
the people who died in such fires were not the cigarette smokers
themselves. For both blacks and whites, the death rate was highest in
census tracts where property rental values were low. The death rate from
fires ignited by heating or electrical equipment was nine times as high in
the lowest-value census tracts as in the highest.
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