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Masonic Chit Chat.
possible opportunity of proving their discrimination in electing as a president a gentleman of amiable manners , and endued with the best principles of union and friendship . REGISTRATION OF DEATHS . —AVe , the undersigned , President of the Royal College of Physicians , President of the Royal College of Surgeons , and Master of the AVorshipful Society of Apothecaries , having authority from the several bodies whom we representpledge ourselves to give , in
, every instance which may fall under our care , an authentic name of the fatal disease . And we entreat all authorised practitioners throughout the country to follow our example , and adopt the same practice , and so assist in establishing a better Registration , in future , throughout England . ( Signed ) . HENRY HALFORD , President of the Royal College of Physicians .
( Signed ) ASTLEY COOPER , President of the Royal College of Surgeons . ( Signed ) J . HINGESTON , 3 Iastcr of the Society of Apothecaries .
May 1 st , 1837 . EXPLANATORY STATEMENT . The Register Books in which all deaths are to be registered after the last day of June , 1 S 37 , contain columns wherein may be inserted the cause of death , in juxta-position with those other important illustrative circumstances , the sv . v , the age , and the profession or calling of the deceased person . Each Register-Book will also be assigned to a
particular District of small extent , and will thus show in what part of the kingdom each death has occurred . The persons who according to the Act must give information to the Registrar on being requested so to do , are " some person present at the death , or in attendance during the last illness , " or " in case of the death , illness , inability , or default of all such persons , the occupier of the house or tenement , or if the occupier be the person who shall have died , some inmate of the house or tenement in which such death shall have happened . " It is , therefore , earnestly recommended that every practising member of any branch of the medical profession who may have been present at the death , or in attendance
during the last illness of any person , shall immediately after such death , place in the hands of such other persons as were in attendance , of the occupier of the house in which the death occurred , and of some inmate who may probably be required to give information , written statements of the cause of death , which such persons may show to the Registrar , and g ive as their information on that subject . It is desirable that such statement should exhibit the popular or common name of the disease .
LIBERAL PRESENT TO B ISIIOPSGATE A YARD SCHOOL . —On Monday , June 21 , the subscribers to the Bishopsgate AA ' ard School dined together , the Lord Mayor in the Chair . Deputy Sir V / illiam Rawlins ; - in the course of the evening got up and addressed the Lord Mayor on the subject of the institution . He said he was now in the eighty-seventh year of his age , and that he could not in better terms express his admiration of the institution thev had assembled to celebratethan by stating that if
, the treasurer would call upon him next day he would put into his hands a check for 1000 / . in the three per cent consols for its benefit . The announcement was met , as might be expected , with immense cheering Alderman Copeland presented the institution with 50 / .
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Masonic Chit Chat.
possible opportunity of proving their discrimination in electing as a president a gentleman of amiable manners , and endued with the best principles of union and friendship . REGISTRATION OF DEATHS . —AVe , the undersigned , President of the Royal College of Physicians , President of the Royal College of Surgeons , and Master of the AVorshipful Society of Apothecaries , having authority from the several bodies whom we representpledge ourselves to give , in
, every instance which may fall under our care , an authentic name of the fatal disease . And we entreat all authorised practitioners throughout the country to follow our example , and adopt the same practice , and so assist in establishing a better Registration , in future , throughout England . ( Signed ) . HENRY HALFORD , President of the Royal College of Physicians .
( Signed ) ASTLEY COOPER , President of the Royal College of Surgeons . ( Signed ) J . HINGESTON , 3 Iastcr of the Society of Apothecaries .
May 1 st , 1837 . EXPLANATORY STATEMENT . The Register Books in which all deaths are to be registered after the last day of June , 1 S 37 , contain columns wherein may be inserted the cause of death , in juxta-position with those other important illustrative circumstances , the sv . v , the age , and the profession or calling of the deceased person . Each Register-Book will also be assigned to a
particular District of small extent , and will thus show in what part of the kingdom each death has occurred . The persons who according to the Act must give information to the Registrar on being requested so to do , are " some person present at the death , or in attendance during the last illness , " or " in case of the death , illness , inability , or default of all such persons , the occupier of the house or tenement , or if the occupier be the person who shall have died , some inmate of the house or tenement in which such death shall have happened . " It is , therefore , earnestly recommended that every practising member of any branch of the medical profession who may have been present at the death , or in attendance
during the last illness of any person , shall immediately after such death , place in the hands of such other persons as were in attendance , of the occupier of the house in which the death occurred , and of some inmate who may probably be required to give information , written statements of the cause of death , which such persons may show to the Registrar , and g ive as their information on that subject . It is desirable that such statement should exhibit the popular or common name of the disease .
LIBERAL PRESENT TO B ISIIOPSGATE A YARD SCHOOL . —On Monday , June 21 , the subscribers to the Bishopsgate AA ' ard School dined together , the Lord Mayor in the Chair . Deputy Sir V / illiam Rawlins ; - in the course of the evening got up and addressed the Lord Mayor on the subject of the institution . He said he was now in the eighty-seventh year of his age , and that he could not in better terms express his admiration of the institution thev had assembled to celebratethan by stating that if
, the treasurer would call upon him next day he would put into his hands a check for 1000 / . in the three per cent consols for its benefit . The announcement was met , as might be expected , with immense cheering Alderman Copeland presented the institution with 50 / .