- Author
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U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
- Title
- Accidental Deaths and Death Rates by Single Years of Age for Persons Under 25 by Type of Accident, 1966. Reports of the Epidemiology and Surveillance of Injuries. No. FY 71-R2.
- Coporate
- Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, DC
- Report
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No. FY 71-R2
August 1970
24 p.
- Keywords
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injuries
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accidents
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death
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statistics
- Abstract
- This report discusses the major causes of accident death for persons age 25 in the United States in 1966. The major types of fatal accidents are described according to their sex and age distributions for single years of age up to ag 25. For infants, mechanical suffocation (841 deaths), inhalation and ingestion (618), and non-pedestrian motor vehicle (352) are the leading causes of death. Of almost no consequence is pedestrian (3) deaths. Non-pedestrian motor vehicles or other motor vehicles are not given in the table attached but are the difference between all motor vehicle and pedestrian.