Abstract
In last year, 141 people in Toyama prefecture were dead in bath room. Male was 64, and female was 77. Mean age was 75.3±13.6. From the summary of the record of postmortem examination, bathing related death were more frequently occur in cold season. In addition, the death more frequently may occur in night, however not a few people was also dead in morning. The rate of alcohol intake in them was not significant. Past history of hypertension, cardiac disease, cerebrovascular disease may be risk factor of bathing related death, however, there were not a few people with obvious past history of intrinsic disease. About in half of the cases, drowning may be final cause of death in police examination. Unfortunately, no autopsy performed to them in a year, and the poor autopsy rate may be a significant hazard of detail examination for preventing the bathing related death.
