Statistics relating to mortality in the mercantile marine / report of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
- Date:
- 1932
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Statistics relating to mortality in the mercantile marine / report of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![particulars are recorded. Still further, Section 339 of the Merchant Shipping Act, 1894, prescribes : — ‘ Where a ship which is not a British ship carries passengers, whether cabin or steerage, to or from any port of the United Kingdom as the port of destination or the port of departure of such ship, the provisions of Part T'wo of this Act, with respect to the registration of births and deaths occurring on board, shall apply as if it were a British ship.” 34. The foregoing statutory requirements provide then, for the maintenance of records relating to :— (a) The deaths of seamen ashore in the United Kingdom, and, (b) the deaths of seamen on articles at sea, and for the transmission of the relevant particulars relating to such deaths to the responsible registration authorities in the United Kingdom. The Registration of Other Deaths Abroad. 35. But a further safeguard is provided with a view to ensuring the registration of the deaths of persons dying abroad (and among these would be included cases of seamen discharged to hospitals ashore in foreign parts, and dying there) under the terms of “‘ The Registration of Births and Deaths (Consular Officers) Regula- tions.’’* In every Consular District a Register of Deaths of prescribed form for recording the deaths of British subjects dying in the district 1s maintained+ while, should a death occur outside His Majesty’s Dominions, but not within a district assigned to any British consular officer, the relevant particulars may be registered in any British consular district. FEivery consular officer is required to forward “‘ before the first day of February in each year ’’ to the Registrar-General at Somerset House, certified copies of all entries made during the previous year,|| and in the event of no death being registered during a year, a ©’ Nil ’’ return must be rendered.{] Determination of statistics of deaths of seamen ashore in the United Kingdom. 36. If the components of this comprehensive official regis- tration machinery function satisfactorily—and it is believed under such a system that few deaths escape ultimate registration— then, sooner or later, every death of a merchant seamen, whether occurring at home, on board ship at sea, or abroad, should be recorded by one or other of the three Registrars-General in the * “Registration of Births and Deaths Abroad” Statutory Rules and Orders. 1930. No. 740. H.M. Stationery Office. Price 3d. + Ibid. para. 2b. t Ibid. para. 10 (1) ll Ibid. para. 4 (1). { Ibid. para. 4 (2).](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b32176338_0022.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
