Risks of home accidents among under five children were
also studied. Most of children in urban slum were exposed to
fire accidents because the fire was within reach in urban
slum. On the other hand the under five children of MIG area
were more frequently exposed to electric appliances as
compare to urban slum. The risk of falling of a material or
item was very common in under five children in urban slum,
which was, nil in MIG area.
Further analysis of data revealed that fire was within reach
among more than three fourth of under five children. For
each age group in urban slum area, the same range from
8.9% to 17.8%. In the same way the risk of electric
appliances being within reach in MIG area increased with
increase in age group.