Modes of Statement of Cause of Death and Duration of Illness Upon Certificates of Death, Volume 3 |
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American Public Health births Board of Health borough bronchopneumonia bulletins-see population Bureau cause of death causes of disease causes or complications Census certificate of death Chief and determining City Clerk City ordinance City ordinance City City Recorder Clerk Board Contributing cause Contributory causes death from violence definite disease causing death duration of illness effect employed Estimated Reports explanatory note homicide immediate cause injury law or city law State law lesion lobar pneumonia modes mortality statistics Name and official nonregistration official title Ohio ordinance City ordinance physician pneumonia post-mortem predisposing primary cause primary disease Public Health Association Registrar of Vital registration officials Reports and bulletins-see secondary affections Secretary Board Secretary State Board standard blank standard certificate statement of cause statement of duration Statis stillbirths suicide Superintendent of Health symptoms T. J. Burke tion tistics title of registrar Town Clerk typhoid fever Vital Statistics W. D. Jones
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Page 13 - ... death. Many of the imperfections of mortality statistics at the present time arise from the fact that complete statements of cause of death in a form best adapted to statistical compilation are not obtained. To some extent this unsatisfactory condition is due to a lack of definite agreement as to just what is wanted from the physician. Physicians in active practice cannot be expected to take interest in the minutiae of nosological classifications, or to specify the relations of several causes...
Page 5 - Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States hereby expresses approval of this movement and requests the favorable consideration and action of the State authorities, to the end that the United States may attain a complete and uniform system of registration.
Page 69 - As officially stated, the purpose of this section is : — To bring about a closer official and personal association of the registration officials of the several countries composing the American Public Health Association; to promote the introduction of effective systems of registering vital statistics; to aid the adoption of uniform methods of collecting, preserving, correcting, and compiling registration records, and of publishing the statistical data derived therefrom in the most useful form...
Page 56 - A condition of the body marked by inharmonious action of one or more of the various organs, owing to abnormal condition or structural change.
Page 12 - Vital statistics of the town of Keene, New Hampshire, compiled from the town records, First church and family records, the original Fisher record and the newspapers, by FH Whitcomb, city clerk ; authorized by vote of the city councils, June 1, 1905.
Page 5 - Extension of the Registration Area for Births and Deaths. A practical example of co-operative census methods as applied to the State of Pennsylvania.
Page 5 - Whereas the American ¿Public Health Association and the United States Census Office are now cooperating in an effort to extend the benefits of registration and to promote its efficiency by indicating the essential requirements of legislative enactments designed to secure the proper registration of all deaths and births and the collection of accurate vital statistics, to be presented to the attention of the legislative authorities in nonregistration States, with the suggestion that such legislation...
Page 45 - The space assigned for the entry in the Register Book will contain about ten words. (2.) Write the causes of death, where there are more than one, under each other, in the order of their appearance, and not in the presumed order of their importance.
Page 11 - Connecticut, Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont, which, together with the District of Columbia (city of Washington) and various individual cities, constituted the registration area.
Page 56 - Any departure from a state of health; an illness; more frequently the genus or kind of disturbance of health to which any particular case of sickness may be assigned.