Relation of physicians to mortality statistics : The international classification of causes of deaths as adopted by the United States census office and approved by the American public health association.

  • United States Census Bureau
Date:
1903
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Credit: Relation of physicians to mortality statistics : The international classification of causes of deaths as adopted by the United States census office and approved by the American public health association. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Indefinite terms used in reporting deaths. Further information required for proper classification. Suicide. Surgical operation. Surgical shock. Syncope. Teething. Tonsilitis. Toxemia. Tuberculosis. Tumor. Typhoid condition. Typhoid pneumonia. Typho-malarial fever. Typhus. Ulcer. lTremia. Uremic poisoning. A^iolence. Vital degeneration. Want of vitality. Wasting. Weak heart. Weakness. Wounds. State means of death employed. Always state the disease or injury requiring operation. Un- less the operation was improper orunskillfully performed, it should not be given as the primary cause of death. What caused the syncope? Was death due to organic heart disease? Give disease causing death. Name the disease affecting the teething child. See Denti- tion. Was death not due to diphtheria? This is a suspicious return. Was this acute or chronic poisoning due to some external agent ? If so, state fully, giving name of poison, whether accidental, etc. Was it autointoxication, due to poisons generated in the body by disease ? If so, state the name of the disease causing the condition which resulted in death. Avoid use of easily misunderstood terms of this character. State organ affected. Do not fail to state as pulmonary tuberculosis if lungs were affected. Was it a cancer? Whether a cancer or tumor, do not fail to specify organ or part of body affected. Avoid this term as it is likely to be mistaken for typhoid fever. Was the primary disease typhoid fever or pneumonia? Was it typhoid fever? Was it malarial fever? A mixture of these diseases rarely occurs, the great majority of cases of so-called typho-malarial fever being nothing more nor less than typhoid fever. Was this not typhoid fever? State location and cause. State cause of uremia. If due to an acute disease, the latter should be named as the cause of death. If in Bright's or other organic disease, state fully. Was it puerperal? State form of violence and whether accidental, suicidal, or homicidal. Worthless. State disease causing death. See Lack of vitality. What was the disease causing :' wasting ? See Atrophy. If orgaric heart disease, so state it. Give the disease caus- ing death. This return may be equivalent to Heart failure, which see. Name disease causing weakness. See Debility. What was the cause of the injury, and was it accidental or homicidal? A copy of the list of indefinite returns given above will be sent to every local registrar in the United States with the suggestion that no certificates containing only these or similar terms be accepted, and no burial permit be issued, until the cause of death
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