RT Journal
T1 MOrtality statistics of the coming census.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD October 7
VO XXXIII
IS 15
SP 921
OP 922
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450670047011
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450670047011
AB The director of the census has sent out a circular to all persons connected with the registration of mortality statistics, proposing a uniform system of returns that can be utilized for the census tables and publications. The responses to this circular, by those to whom it is addressed, have been most gratifying and their co-operation practically secured, but an additional request is made that physicians, on whom more than on any one else the real success of the project depends, will interest themselves in securing on the new forms prompt and corrct returns. The questions included comprise the facts required in the law as passed by Congress, and their full and accurate answers are the chief essentials. The value of uniform statistics is obvious in itself, and in this case the necessity is imperative. The lack of anything of the kind in many parts of this country has been a