title: A survey of dog bites in Salisbury.
abstract: A recent survey of patients attending an Accident and Emergency (A&E) department serving several economically depressed Thanet coastal towns found that around 3 per 1000 of the resident population attended each year for the treatment of dog bite injuries (Thomas and Banks, 1990). We report a study of dog bite injuries treated in the A&E department serving Salisbury, a small prosperous Cathedral city, and surrounding villages. In comparison with Thanet, age specific incidence rates for dog bites show a similar pattern but only about half the overall incidence. Some reasons for these findings are suggested and extrapolations for national treatment figures are made.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health & Epidemiology, Odstock Hospital, Salisbury, Wiltshire.
authors.forename: H F
authors.initials: HF
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Voss
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001733:Bites and Stings / Q000453:epidemiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004285:Dogs; D004630:Emergencies; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008875:Middle Aged; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology