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In connection with the important subject of Death
Certification, the late Vesty approved on July 5th, 1900, of
the following principles:—
1. All Medical Certificates to be sent direct to the
Registrar.
2. Fact of death to be certified by the Medical Man
in attendance.
3. No death to be registered without the production of
a certificate of death signed either (a) by a
registered Medical Practitioner or (b) by a
Coroner.
The state of the law with respect to death certification
is unsatisfactory, more especially as it affects the registration
of uncertified deaths, and the suggested principles
mentioned above as approved by the late Vestry, are
practically those laid down by the Select Committee of the
House of Commons, who reported in September, 1893, and
by the London County Council at a Deputation, which
waited upon the Lord Chancellor in Feb., 1895.