Registration of the causes of death : circulars to medical practioners, and to registrars, a statistical nosology, for the use of those who return the causes of death under 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 86, circular to coroners, and a classification of the causes of violent deaths.

  • General Register Office Northern Ireland
Date:
1845
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Credit: Registration of the causes of death : circulars to medical practioners, and to registrars, a statistical nosology, for the use of those who return the causes of death under 6 and 7 Will. IV., c. 86, circular to coroners, and a classification of the causes of violent deaths. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    When only a few facts connected with the cause of death are known, it is always of importance to register thoses facts, although tlicy may he vague, as ' iu the annexed examples. When the death is known to have arisen-] from disease of a particular part or( organ, the nature of the disease being( unknown. a. b. c. d. 0. /• Found dead. Sudden death. Fell down dead in the street. Found dead in bed. Found exposed without marks of violence. Found exposed with marks of vio- lence. Found drowned Avith (or without) marks of violence, &c. &c. Death by viulence. Death by spontaneous disease. Disease of the heart; disease of the lungs ; or, still more vaguely, disease of the chest, &c. &c. »&c. X.—An Alphabetical List of Diseases, and Causes of Death, nearly all of ivhich have been met ivith in the Megisters—with References (by figures^ to the Statistical Nosology. The insertion of names in this list must not be considered as by any means sanc- tioning their use. For the names which it is recommended should be used, see the first column of the previous Nosology, to which the figures always refer. The queries in the second column will remind the informants and registrars of points which should be borne in mind in assigning the cause of death. Abdominal effusion Abdominal inflammation (vague) Ascites, 30 f. Query, whether peritonitis ? or enteritis? 80, 81. 136 ; 38. Abortion, 104 b. (A bad term.) Poisoning? ulceration? 137, 85. No. 31. Abscess may occur in almost any part of the body. The following (iu which abscess occurs) are bad entries, or have been sometimes incorrectly applied. Abscess of lung opening into air tubes? If meant as abscess of the female breast, it is correct; but in some parts of the country breast is used for chest, see 71 b ; 104. Syphilis? psoas abscess 1 21; 31. Abscess in the brain ? From what cause ? Empyema, 70 b, Quinsey, 76. Scrofula 1 What virus ? was it in dissection ? necusia? 23 a. Abstraction of the brain (a bad term) 45—57. Ablactation Abortus Abrasion of the mucus membrane of stomach and intestines Abscess or ahscessus Abscess in air tubes Abscess of the breast Abscess in the groin Abscess on the head Abscess in pelvis ( Abscess of the pleura—of the side Abscess of the throat Absorbents (inflammation of) Absorption of morbid virus Accident (vague) Adenitis Age Ague Air tubes (disease of) Albuminuria Amaurosis Amenorrhoea Amputation Ana;mia See Deaths hij external causes, and 137—145. Inflammation of a gland, 336. Old age, 41, 15. See 69. Phthisis, 33. 95. 56. 103. ' Of what part, and for what disease was it performed 1 29.
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