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probably furnish you with sufficient materials to justify the statements
and prayer of the memorial; but if you desire further
information upon the points raised therein, we shall be happy to
furnish you with any facts that have been communicated to us by
various of our fellow Officers of Health.
We append a copy of a letter addressed by the RegistrarGeneral
to a deputation of our Association that waited on him
respecting an improved Registration of Births and Deaths.
And we have the honour to be, Dear Sir,
Yours faithfully,
GEORGE BUCHANAN, Hon. secs.
J. NORTHCOTE VINEN,
To Dr. Lankester,
Medical Officer of Health,
St. James's, Westminster.
General Register Office,
Somerset House,
16th December, 1863.
Sir,
I will thank you to inform the Association of Medical
Officers of Health that I will not fail to give my best consideration
to the alterations in the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death,
which were suggested by you and Dr. Buchanan when I lately
had the pleasure of seeing you here.
At that time you stated that there were four other points
connected with this Department, in the opinion of the Metropolitan
Association of Medical Officers of Health, susceptible of
improvement:—
1st.—That the Registration of Births should, by statute, be
made imperative and compulsory in England and
Wales, as it now is in Scotland and Ireland.