Registers of Death

Registers contain date of death, date of last admission, duration of disease, patient name, sex, class (i.e. private or pauper and from 5 July 1948 Section 3/4/5), number in register, cause of death, age at death and observations. From 1884, whether a post mortem has been carried out or not is also recorded. These volumes relate to certified patients.

1870-1979

4 volumes

Sections 3, 4 and 5 refer to Sections of the National Health Service, with Section 3 being patients receiving free treatment and Sections 4 and 5 being fee paying patients at various rates.

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The papers are available at Dumfries and Galloway Archives subject to conditions of UK Data Protection Act 1998, Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 2002 and NHS Records Management Code of Practice 2012. Subject to these restrictions, this material is being digitised by the University of Glasgow as part of a Wellcome Trust funded project. Material that is digitised will be accessed freely online through the Wellcome Library catalogue.