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† The Medical Officer of Health will be able from the returns
made to him by the local Registrar of Deaths, as well as from the
quarterly lists furnished by the Registrar-General, to fill in Column 8 in
accordance with the rule in the next paragraph below. The RegistrarGeneral,
either directly or through the County'Me(diical Officer of Health,
will supply the Medical Officer of Health with the particulars of deaths
to be entered in Column 9: and all such deaths must be included in this
Column, unless an error is detected, and its correction has been accepted
by the Registrar-General. For Column 4 the Registrar-General will
furnish to the Medical Officer of Health a Statement of the number of
births needing to be added to or subtracted from the total supplied by
the local Registrar.
‡ "'Transferable Deaths" are deaths of persons who, having a
fixed or usual residence in England or Wales, die in a district other than
that in which they resided. The deaths of persons without fixed or
usual residence, e.g., casuals, must not be included in Columns 8 or 9,
except in certain instances under 3 (6) below. The Medical Officer of
Health will state in Column 8 the number of transferable deaths of
" non-residents " which are to be deducted, and will state in Column 9
the number of deaths of "residents" registered outside the district which
are to be added in calculating the nett death-rate of his district.
The following special cases arise as to Transferable Deaths:—
(1) Persons dying in Institutions for the sick or infirm, such as
hospitals, lunatic asylums, workhouses, and nursing homes (but not
almshouses) must be regarded as residents of the district in which they
had a fixed or usual residence at the time of admission. If the person
dying in an Institution had no fixed residence at the time of admission,
the death is not transferable. If the patient has been directly transferred
from one such institution to another, the death is transferable to
the district ot residence at the time of admission to the first Institution.
(2) The deaths of infants Dorn and dying within a year of birth
in an Institution to which the mother was admitted for her confinement
should be referred to the district of fixed or usual residence of the parent.
(3) Deaths from Violence are to be referred (a) to the district
ot residence, under the general rule; (6) if this district is unknown,
or the deceased had no fixed abode, to the district where the accident
occurred, it known; (c) failing this, to the district where death occurred,
it known; and (d) failing this, to the district where the body was found.