A manual for health officers / by J. Scott MacNutt ... with a foreword by William T. Sedgwick.

  • MacNutt, J. Scott (Joseph Scott), 1885-
Date:
1915
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Credit: A manual for health officers / by J. Scott MacNutt ... with a foreword by William T. Sedgwick. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service. The original may be consulted at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine Library & Archives Service.

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    DEATHS IN INSTITUTIONS 12. Deaths of residents of a city in a hospital or institution situated within the city limits should be distributed by the local registrar to the districts of residence (borough, ward, sanitary district) as far as possible. PERIOD COVERED IN BULLETINS AND REPORTS 13- Total deaths should include all deaths that occurred in the given area during the period stated in the table, and no others: (a) A weekly bulletin should include all deaths that occurred during the week ending at 12 p.m., Saturday, and no others: Provided, that in order to secure earlier publication, a weekly bulletin may include deaths reported up to any time, but should definitely state that fact. (b) A monthly bulletin should include all deaths that occurred during the calendar month, and no others. [Amended, see Rule no. i, 1910, below.] (c) An annual report should include all deaths that occurred during the calendar year, and no others. HEADINGS OF TABLES 14. Every table of total deaths should explicitly state in its heading that stillbirths are not included, and if any classes of deaths are omitted from a table apparently relating to total deaths, the items excluded should be explicitly stated either in the heading or in a footnote. DEATH RATES BASED ON TOTAL DEATHS IS.1 Any statement of the death rate (general, crude or gross death rate) of a state or city should be understood to be based, unless expressly qualified, upon the total deaths, exclusive of stillbirths, and without any omissions of deaths whatsoever. VIABILITY OR NONVIABILITY 16. Statement of viability or nonviability of an infant prematurely born shall not be considered in classification. STATISTICAL DEFINITION OF STILLBIRTHS 17. For registration purposes, stillbirths should include all children born who do not live any time whatever, no matter how brief, after birth. 1 See note, p. 612.