A survey of deaths in Rhodesia caused by animals.

Method The returns of mortality to the Rhodesian Attorney General’s Office were reviewed retro­ spectively over the five-year period June, 1965, to May, 1970. Included in the study are all fatalities in which the victim was reported to have died from direct of indirect contact with some nonhuman species of Rhodesian animal life. It in­ cludes deaths, due to trauma and to bites or stings of venomous animals and insects, but deaths caused by such diseases as rabies and psittacosis are excluded (E905 and 906, International Classifi­ cation of Diseases, 1965).