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Before registering the Registrar or Assistant Registrar must be satisfied that the cause of death given is the true cause and in case of doubt it is his duty to institute or cause to be instituted immediate enquiries with a view to ascertaining the true cause of death.
The authorities certifying the cause of death are:
(a) the medical practitioners in attendance during the last illness whether in hospital practice, dispensary practice or private practice.
(b) the Tung Wah Hospitals for bodies where there has been no registered medical practitioner attending.
(c) the Medical Officer of Health for bodies found in houses and for which he is called for diagnosis.
(d) the Coroner for all bodies examined at the Public Mortuaries including medico-legal cases and bodies dumped in the street or left at convents for disposal.
(e) the friends and relatives or the police in certain cases.
The following table shows the number of deaths certified by the various authorities certifying:
RETURN OF DEATHS (1933).
Authority certifying cause of death. Non-Chinese. Number of Cases. Percentage of the whole. Chinese. Number of Cases. Percentage of the whole. Medical Practitioner in Attendance 209 89.7 10,327 57.6 Medical Officer of Health 1 0.4 224 1.3 Tung Wah Hospital 1,042 5.8 Tung Wah Eastern Hospital Kwong Wah Hospital Coroner from information received 413 2.3 from the M.O. i/e Mortuaries 23 9.9 5,069 28.2 Total 233 17,928M 221
Before registering the Registrar or Assistant Registrar must be satisfied that the cause of death given is the true cause and in case of doubt it is his duty to institute or cause to be in- stituted immediate enquiries with a view to ascertaining the true cause of death.
The authorities certifying the cause of death are:
(a) the medical practitioners in attendance during the last illness whether in hospital practice, dispensary practice or private practice.
(b) the Tung Wah Hospitals for bodies where there has been
no registered medical practitioner attending.
(c) the Medical Officer of Health for bodies found in houses
and for which he is called for diagnosis.
(d) the Coroner-for all bodies examined at the Public Mortuaries including medico legal cases and bodies dumped in the street or left at convents for disposal. (e) the friends and relatives or the police in certain cases.
The following table shows the number of deaths certified by the various authorities certifying :-
RETURN OF DEATHS (1933).
Non-Chinese.
Authority certifying
cause of death.
Number of
Cases.
of the
whole.
Chinese.
Percentage Number of Percentage
Cases.
of the
whole.
Medical Practitioner
in Attendance
209
89.7
10,327
57.6
Medical Officer of
Health
1
0.4
224
1.3
Tung Wah Hospital..
1,042
5.8
Tung Wah Eastern
Hospital
Kwong Wah Hospital Coroner from infor-
mation received
413
2.3
853
4.8
from the M.O. i/e Mortuaries.....
23
9.9
5,069
28.2
Total.........
233
17,928
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