ON THE REGISTRATION OF DEATHS. 
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as are required to be employed by the Bills now in contempla¬ 
tion, and without imposing any expense on any party beyond 
what the other provisions of the Bills have already done. 
Thus the Schedule to be inserted in the Bill for directing the 
mode of registering deaths, so far as the information that is de¬ 
sirable for medical inquirers is concerned, would stand thus : 
Date. 
Name 
Age 
Exact 
Residence. 
Employment, 
or that of the 
Disease or cause of Death. 
head of the 
Family. 
Acute. 
Chronic. 
As it may hereafter appear practicable and expedient to re¬ 
quire for certain times, and in certain places, some further and 
more precise information, it seems highly desirable that two or 
more blank columns should be directed to be left in every book 
kept for the purpose of registration, and that the Executive 
Government should reserve to itself the power of hereafter di¬ 
recting that those columns shall be filled up in such manner as 
may be thought proper, without the expense and loss of time 
requisite for a new Act of Parliament. 
