Deaths from Non-accidental Injuries in Childhood SIR,-Publicity given to speculative estimates running as high as 750 a year of the number of small children battered to death by their parents has led us to examine the Registrar General's statistics for faftal accidents in children under 5 years. The Registrar General's statistics for
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