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It would evidently have been due to the fact that deaths in the convents are almost entirely those of infants taken there in a moribund condition, who die before it is possible for a doctor to be called in. Under such circumstances, there being no resident medical practitioner who is able to see each infant arriving at the convent, the granting of a death certificate is an ordinary case.
The convents being charitable institutions, the funds of which are barely enough to cover the expenses incurred by the good work being done, it would be quite beyond their means to pay for medical attendants were they not able to do so. Indeed, they are not able to pay Dr. Spach & Dr. Whyte, who have attended the convents for many years & still render their services gratuitously.
I have been,
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The Secretary of State for the Colonies, accurate certificates of deaths have hitherto been obtained from Convents under European management & attended by European doctors. In reply,
I have to state that the present system of certifying deaths occurring in the convents has been in vogue ever since the coming into force of Ordinance 7 of 1948, which renders compulsory the registration of deaths. I have not been able to discover in the archives any document showing the reasons for the adoption of the present system.
It would evidently have been due to the fact that deaths in the convents are almost entirely those of infants taken there in a moribund condition, who die before it is possible for a doctor to be called in. Under such circumstances, there being no resident medical practitioner who is able to see each infant arriving at the convent, the granting of a death certificate is an ordinary case.
The convents being charitable institutions, the funds of which are barely enough to cover the expenses incurred by the good work being done, it would be quite beyond their means to pay for medical attendants if they were not able to do so. Indeed, they are not able to pay Dr. Spach & Dr. Whyte, who have attended the convents for many years & still render their services gratuitously.
I have been,
(84) J. V. Stewart Lockhart
Registrar General
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any
date
for
the
purposes.
I. In the Extract
paragraph
of our letter
we are to ascertain, for
the
information.
The Secretary of State for the Colonies, accurate certificates of deaths have hitherto been obtained from Convents under European management & attended by European doctors. In reply,
I have to state that the present system of certifying deaths occurring in the convents has been in vogue ever since the coming into force of Ordinance 7 of 1948, which renders compulsory the registration of deaths. I have not been able to discover in the archives any document showing the reasons for the adoption of the present system.
It would evidently have been due to the fact that deaths in the convents are almost entirely those of infants taken there in a moribund condition, who die before it is possible for a doctor to be called in. Under such circumstances, there being no resident medical practitioner who is able to see each infant arriving at the convent, the granting of a death certificate is an ordinary case.
The convents being charitable institutions, the funds of which are barely enough to cover the expenses incurred by the good work being done, it would be quite beyond their means to pay for medical attendants if they were not able to do so. Indeed, they are not able to pay Dr. Spach & Dr. Whyte, who have attended the convents for many years & still render their services gratuitously.
I have been,
(84) J. V. Stewart Lockhart
Registrar General
Citation similar to that governing...
Page 14