Search for: [Abstract = "the Chair and Department of Forensic Medicine of the Jagiellonian University in the years 2000\-2010 constitute the main issue of that work. The region from which the analyzed cases originate covers the area of Lesser Poland, part of the Świętokrzyskie and Podkarpackie voivodships. A total of 11,260 post\-mortem examinations were carried out In the Department and Forensic Medicine UJCM in the period from 2000 to 2010. That number includes 481 post mortem examinations performed on persons under the age of 18, which comes down to 4.2 percent of all autopsies at that time. The study group included 159 female and 322 male, accounting for 33% and 57% of child deaths, respectively. Among the selected cases there were 12 cases of infanticide, 15 killings, 60 suicides, 303 cases of a broadly understood accident and 91 deaths due to illness. The scope of tests carried out at the Department of Forensic Medicine included forensic autopsy, histopathological examinations of organ samples taken during the autopsy, blood and urine tests for ethyl alcohol, and in some cases also toxicological analysis of the protected material, microbiological and biochemical tests.123 The results of the conducted research showed that boys were the most numerous group of deceased subjects in the analyzed period. Moreover in cases of drowning and where death occurred as a result of suicide by hanging, the number"]
