Manual of the international list of causes of death based on the third decennial revision by the International Commisssion, Paris, October 11 to 15, 1920.

  • United States Census Bureau
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[1924]
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Credit: Manual of the international list of causes of death based on the third decennial revision by the International Commisssion, Paris, October 11 to 15, 1920. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    any terms recommended by the Standard Nomenclature of Diseases and Pathological Conditions, Injuries, and Poisonings for the United States, Nomenclature of Diseases of the Royal College of Physicians, London, or the Nomenclature of Diseases and Conditions of Bellevue and Allied Hospitals, New York, may be used. Terms printed in italics are indefinite or otherwise undesirable, and should never be used when a more definite statement can be given. ‘‘ Heart failure,’’ for example, is simply equiva- lent to cause of death unknown. ‘‘Convulsions,’’ ‘‘Debility,’’ ‘‘Old age,’’ are terms of this character. See List of Undesirable Terms (page 36), also special instructions for deaths from External Causes (page 35). Please aid in the improvement of our vital statistics by using only precise and definite terms. INTERNATIONAL LIST OF CAUSES OF DEATH. J.—EPIDEMIC, ENDEMIC, AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES. 1. Typhoid and paratyphoid fever: 26. Glanders. (a) Typhoid fever, 27. Anthrax. (b) Paratyphoid fever. 28. Rabies. 2. Typhus fever. 29. Tetanus. [State also cause; see Class XIV.] 3. Relapsing fever (spirillum obermeieri). 30. Mycoses. [Specify, as Actinomycosis of 4. Malta fever. lungs, etc.] 5. Malaria. 31. Tuberculosis of the respiratory system. [Spec- 6. Small-pox. ify,as Tuberculosis of lungs, etc.] 7. Measles. 32. Tuberculosis of the meninges and central nerv- 8. Scarlet fever. ous system. [Specify organ.] 9. Whooping-cough. 33. Tuberculosis of the intestines and perito- 10. Diphtheria. neum. 11. Influenza: [State fully any complications.] 34. Tuberculosis of the vertebral column. ~ (a) with pulmonary complications specified, | 35. Tuberculosis of the joints. [Specify joint.]} (b) without pulmonary complications speci- | 36. Tuberculosis of other organs: [Specify organ.] ed. (a) Tuberculosis of the skin and subcu- 12. Miliary fever. [True Febris miliaris only.] taneous cellular tissue. [State part.] 13. Mumps. (b) Tuberculosis of the bones (vertebral 14. Asiatic cholera. column excepted). [Specify bone.] 15. Cholera nostras. (c) Tuberculosis of the lymphatic system 16. Dysentery: [Do not report ordinary diarrhea (mesenteric and __ retroperitoneal and enteritis (113, 114) as dysentery.} glands excepted). [State part.] (a) amebic, (d) Tuberculosis of the genitourinary sys- (b) bacillary, tem. [State part.] (c) unspecified or due to other causes. | (e) Tuberculosis of organs other than the ij riage: above. [State organ.] (a) bubonic, 37. Disseminated tuberculosis: [Specify organs.] (b) pneumonic, (a) acute, (c) septicemic, | (b) chronic, or unspecified. (d) unspecified. 38. Syphilis. 18. Yellow fever. 39. Soft chancre. 19. Spirochetal hemorrhagic jaundice. 40. Gonococcus infection. 20. Leprosy. 41. Purulent infection, septicemia. [State also 21. Erysipelas. [State also cause; see Class XIV.] cause; see Classes VI ang XIV especially .] 22. Acute anterior poliomyelitis. 42. Other infectious diseases: 23. Lethargic encephalitis. Filariasis, 24. Meningococcus meningitis. Vaccinia. 25. Other epidemic and endemic diseases: Chicken-pox, German measles, Rocky Mountain spotted (tick) fever, etc.