First Report [with Final Report and Appendices] of the Commissioners.

  • Great Britain. Royal Commission on Venereal Diseases.
Date:
1914-1916
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Credit: First Report [with Final Report and Appendices] of the Commissioners. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    STEVENSON, Dr. Thomas Heney GnAia—cont. Death Certificates—continued. Confidential—confe'mted. Puller information obtained by, would help towards decrease of disease 3380-2, 3510-7 Insurance companies would probably be opposed to - - - - - - 3542-9 Insurance societies migbt have to modify methods 234-6 Leakage of information, fear of, and use of county rather than local sanitary authority might get over - - 3439-40, 3479-80 Legislation would be necessary - 3525-9, 3585 Many doctors desirous of - - - 239 Payment of doctors, question of - 239-44 Posting of, by medical practitioner to local registrar, cei-tificates then to be sent to General Register office, and certificate of fact of death only to be given to relatives, scheme 3366-73, 3383-6,3419-22 many Practitioners would welcome - 3371 Possibilities of detecting crime would be increased ------ 3444 Production should be refused except where demanded in Court of Law or by Coroner 3377, 3443, 3536-41 Proposal that i-egister should be in hands of local sanitary authority - - 3406-9 Registrar and local sanitary authority and medical officer of health might have access to 232-3 Fact of death only, to relatives, on the Continent 3370 Instructions given by Registrar General re 3251-64 Payment question - - - . 3530-4 Proportion of deaths certified - - - 126 Quality improving, but room for further improve- ment ------- 122 Deaths, in institutions and at home, proportions 3239-41 General Paralysis of the Insane : as Cause of death : Properly returned as not associated with syphilis and spread of knowledge may affect 3267-9 Reluctance to certify, in private practice 40-1 Confidential inquiry of doctor when case certified only as general paralysis or general paresis 42-5 Mortality curve, syphilis curve closely followed 3331 Registrar-General's statistics probably correct substantially 40-5, 78-80 GONORRHCEA, DEATHS FROM : Actual causes of 152-5 as Cause, frequent concealment of - 3255-66 Certificates from institutions more reliable than others 28 fairly Constant during last 15 years - - 21-2 Figures bear some relation to facts, but probably largely exceeded in reality 20, 29, 34-7, 245, 251 Great majority of deaths from pelvic diseases of women due to - - - 3256, 3505-9 Indirect fatality in female sex not obtainable from returns ------- 152-9 Number per year - - - - 3503-4 Reluctance to certify, in private practice - 40-1 Infantile Mortality : Distribution unlike that of deaths due to syphilis 3295-301 see also under Registrar-General's Vital Statistics below. Insurance Offices, taking Persons on Written Statement only : Objection to system ----- 237-8 Question of confidential death certificates in con- nection with - 3476-8, 3441-2, 3481-2, 3542-9, 3555-6 Locomotor Ataxy : as Cause of death, properly returned as not asso- ciated with syphilis and spread of knowledge may affect 3267-9 STEVENSON, Dr. Thomas Henry Craig—eojii. Locomotor Ataxy—continued. Deaths from: Curve, syphilis curve not closely followed 3331 Distribution according to occupations 3308-26, 3395-401, 3416-8, 3428-9, 3433-5, 3495-7 Figui-es substantially correct - - 46-7, 78-80 Large number in Poor Law institutions - 78-9 no Reluctance to certify, known of - - 46 Marasmus, see Atrophy, deliihty, and marasmus above. MaiTiage, occupation on, less accurately registered by clergyman than by register 8417, 3447-53 Notification, Compttlsory : Evasion probable . . - - 104-5, 283 without Names: of Statistical value only - - - . 3524 Valuelessness of, either with or without pay- ment - - - - - - - 3524 Publicity an argument against - - 198-201 Quack treatment would increase - - 3524 Question of effect on vital statistics - 104-12 Pemphigus, number of deaths and number due to syphilis 275 Periostitis, some cases may be syphilitic - 161-2 Peritonitis, many cases would be caused by gonorrhoea 158 Phagedaena, an obsolescent term on death certificates 156-7 Premature Births: no Estimate of proportion probably due to syphUis 216 Proportion in north and in soiith of England 222-3 Question of obtaining causes - - 278-82 Population, in i-ural and urban districts, change in proportion, 1851-1911 . . - . 3352 Prostitutes, responsibility for spead of diseases 3433, 8518-21 Registrar-General's Vital Statistics : See also particular diseases. Abortions not retm-ned - - - - 164-6 Alcoholism, double tabulation - - 3460-2 Aneurysm, change in classification - - 1901 Caries of the spine, now put to tubercle of the spine 160 Cause of death: Anatomical or causative basis, question - 3390 at Different age periods, effect of sub-divisions of syphihs and other venereal diseases 70-2 ■ - • 3391-4 ases where 119-25 - 114-8 3425-7 273-4, 277 82-96 Dual classification Inquiries made of doctors in some cause indefinite . - - - Method of arriving at figures - Syphilis, steps taken re - Child-birth, explanation Classification of administrative areas - Classification of diseases, international basis, but possibihty of modification - - - 7-12 Deaths of people in ui-ban institutions normally residing in mral districts would be credited to rural statistics .... 3431-2 Dependence on death certificates - - 17-9 Few deaths not registered - - - - 127-9 Infantile mortality : Illegitimate, children of female servants due to syphilis, and all illegitimates - - 66-9 Legitimate, explanation of classification of social classes ------ 63-5 Majority of deaths in first six months - 62 from Venereal disease, records of illegitimate infants above legitimate and reason - 55-61 Purulent ophthalmia classified under gonon-hoea 3360-4 Relative amount of mortality and distribution shown by - - 3229-30,3275-7,3291-2 Syphilis, evidence of extent to which mortahty from locomotor ataxy, G.P.I., and aneurysm is dependent on 3277 Use of sjraonyms or symbols in order to obtain more accurate certification not advocated 99-103 Value vitiated by suppression of actual facts of disease by doctors - - - - . 2131-8 Venereal diseases, classification, statistics not affected by ^9