Registration of the causes of death. Circulars to medical practioners, and to registrars. A statistical nosology ... Circular to coroners and a classification of the causes of violent deaths .... December, 1845.

  • Great Britain. General Register Office
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[1845]
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Credit: Registration of the causes of death. Circulars to medical practioners, and to registrars. A statistical nosology ... Circular to coroners and a classification of the causes of violent deaths .... December, 1845. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    19/88 (page 15)
    Names to be used. t) Chicken-Pox. Varicella. Ex.—Small-pox, — days {1st attack ) ; (never vaccinated). Small-pox, 14 days {2nd attack) ; {never vaccinated). Small-pox, 17 days; pleurisy, 1 (p. m.) ; (rcotf known whether vaccinated.) Small-pox, 21 days; pneumonia, 7 days; (not vaccinated.) Small-pox, confluent, 12£/a day ; {vaccination never attempted.) Smallpox, (petechial,) 9 days; {vaccinated young, 2 /yoor/ ci¬ catrices) Smallpox, 9 days; laryngitis, 1 c/c/ty; (vaccinated, only 4 r/V/?/v before eruption.) Chicken-pox, 8 dtays; hooping-cough, 6 2 Miliaria. Miliary fever. J 3 Measles. Rubeola; morbilli. liubeo/a maligna may be distinguished by the epithet “ malignantso also may Scarlatina maligna. Ex.—Measles, 14 days; diarrhoea, 6 days. Measles, 14 days; phlegmon of arm—gangrene, 7 days. Measles, 14 days; purpura, 1 Measles, 13 days; phlegmonous erysipelas, 6 Measles, 9 r/wys ; bronchitis, 7 c/c/y/v ; pneumonia, 3 ; convul¬ sions, 1 Measles, 6 days; scarlatina, 3 days; pneumonia, 2 days; convul¬ sions, 1 Bronchitis with measles; the eruption did not appear till imme¬ diately after death. Other secondary diseases are dropsy, croup, noma. 4 « Scarlatina. Scarlet fever; rosalia. 6 Scarlatina, followed by dropsy. c Putrid Sore Throat Angina maligna, (Z)r. Tweedie.) (Scarlatina.) Ex.—Scarlatina, 39 days; dropsy, 24 days ; peritonitis, 14 days, (p. m.) Scarlatina maligna, 5 days. Scarlatina, 4 weeks ; acute pericarditis, 24 hours. Scarlatina maligna, 21 days ; purulent infiltration, 7 efcn/.s (p. m.) Scarlatina, 7 weeks; pneumonia, (duration unknown); tubercles in lungs, (p. m.) Scarlatina, 4 weeks; dropsy, 5 days ; angina maligna, 2 days. Scarlatina maligna, 7 days; putrid sore throat, 3 days. Scarlatina, 33 days before death; anasarca renalis, 21 days; pleuritis, pericarditis, peritonitis, (p. m.) Anatomy, and Surgery, the Transactions of Medical Societies, or in the Medical Journals. The various nosologies, Cooper and Copland’s Dictionaries, the works on the Practice of Physic by Mason Good, Craigie, Bright, and Addison, and the excellent Lectures of I)r. Watson might also be named. As the object has been to refer to writings easily accessible to every medical practitioner who may have occasion to return the causes of death, the names of few foreign or ancient writers have been cited. This is mentioned that the omission might not be misinterpreted. The witers named at the beginning of each class have generally treated of the diseases of that class.