- Author
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Carroll-Porczynski, C. Z., Editor
- Book or Conf
- Flammability of Composite Fabrics,
Chemical Publishing Company, Inc., New York, NY,
Carroll-Porczynski, C. Z., Editors,
489 p.,
1979
- Keywords
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flammable fabrics
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clothing burns
- Abstract
- There are about 1,000 deaths each year due to burns in the United Kingdom. Figures of deaths do not however indicate the true size of the problem. It has been reliably estimated that at any one time there are some 550 people in hospitals in this country under treatment for burns, two-third of them for clothing burns, and that there are in the community today about 136,000 people who at sometime or other have been severely burned by their clothing catching fire and who need hospital treatment, many of them suffering from permanent after effects. It has recently been reported in the U.S.A. that 5,000 Americans die and 150,000 to 250,000 are injured each year from burns caused by flammable fabrics, and that the cost of medical are for the hospitalised burn victims has been estimated to total about 200 million per year.