How to become a nurse : the nursing profession : how and where to train, being a guide to training for the profession of a nurse, with particulars of nurse training schools in the United Kingdom and abroad and an outline of the prinicipal laws affecting nurses, etc. / edited by Sir Henry Burdett, K.C.B.

Date:
[1905?]
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: How to become a nurse : the nursing profession : how and where to train, being a guide to training for the profession of a nurse, with particulars of nurse training schools in the United Kingdom and abroad and an outline of the prinicipal laws affecting nurses, etc. / edited by Sir Henry Burdett, K.C.B. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    as he may specify, to give the required information and to sign the register. If the registration has not taken place within three months, the registrar may before the expiration of twelve months from the birth, by notice in writing, require any of the same persons to make a declaration before the superin- tendent registrar of the particulars required for registration and to sign the register. After twelve months a birth cannot be registered with- out the written authority of the Registrar-General. The name of the father of an illegitimate child cannot be entered on the register except at the joint request of himself and the mother. The birth of a still-born child is of course not registered. Deaths, The duty of registering a death falls (where an inquest is held) upon the coroner. In other cases it devolves in the first place upon the nearest relatives of the deceased present at his death or in attendance during his last illness, and in default of them upon every other relative of the deceased dwelling or being in the same sub-district and, in default of them, upon each person present at the death, and the occupier of the house in which to his know- ledge the death took place. In default of any of these persons the duty falls upon each inmate of the house in which the death took place, and upon the person causing the body to be buried. The information required for registration comprises the date, cause, and place of death, the name, sex, age, and rank or profession of the deceased, and the signature, residence and description of the in- formant, and such information must be given to the best of the informant’s knowledge and belief. A death is required to be registered within five days, exclusive of the day of death ; but if notice of the fact of death accompanied by the death certificate is sent to the registrar, a further period of fourteen days from the death, but exclusive of the day of death, is allowed for the other particulars.