Of Stillborn . XIII. CLASS. : : 15 1 00 10 100 21 21 : 122 2 28 3. 34 35 1 2 1 2 23 5... 1 1 812 2 4 21: ....... ..... ... 5 6. 1 6 4 3........ 1 1 108 93 100 1 366.9 302 24 17 25 22 31 27 17 24 24 34 30 27 212 90 76 34 14 5861 84 20 3 1 134 REPORT ON THE EPIDEMICS OF CALIFORNIA. Estimated Population of Sacramento City in 1858 = 20,000. REPORT ON A UNIFORM PLAN FOR REGISTRATION REPORTS OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BY W. L. SUTTON, M.D., OF KENTUCKY. REPORT ON A UNIFORM PLAN FOR REGISTRATION REPORTS OF BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. THE Committee charged "to prepare a uniform plan for Registration Reports of Births, Marriages and Deaths; including a nomenclature and classification of causes of death," have had the same under careful consideration, and would respectfully report, that they have not thought that their duty extended to the consideration of the machinery, which ought to be employed in the States, to collect the facts to be used in registration reports; nor the forms in which they are to be collected. They therefore merely say that Dr. Jarvis, in his report for last year, stated very clearly the facts which ought to be noted as to each of the epochs, birth, marriage, and death, with the single exception that "the time of death" has been omitted by the printer. (See Trans. Am. Med. Assoc., vol. xi. p. 533.) They therefore confine themselves to suggest a form of report to be observed by all the States. Independently of the very great advantage which every government or State would derive from a faithfully executed system of registration within her borders-the ability to determine clearly and distinctly the relative fecundity and mortality of her popula. tion; relative proportion of the sexes among her citizens; the longevity of her people; the causes of death within her borders; the weight with which each cause of death presses upon different portions of the community, whether those portions be considered. in relation to age, sex, or condition of her people, or in relation to different sections of her territory; and of many other benefits-it is highly proper and necessary that she should be able to compare the condition of her people with that of adjoining States or countries. She may thus ascertain what differences exist, and why those differences do obtain; what diseases prevail more extensively in one than in the other, &c. When we reflect that a healthy, able-bodied, adult population is, in truth, "the State," we VOL. XII.-10 |