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Marianne C. Mierley, MHS; Susan P. Baker, MPH

JAMA. 1983;249(11):1466-1468.

Abstract
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.

(JAMA 1983;249:1466-1468)

Author Affiliations
From The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore. Ms Mierley is now a student at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia.

Footnotes
The opinions, findings, and conclusions expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the sponsors of this study.

Reprint requests to The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, 615 N Wolfe St, Baltimore, MD 21205 (Ms Baker).

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