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OBJECT TYPE: pocket
DATE: 1920
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2002.0799.001

MANUFACTURER: Government of Ontario
MODEL: International List of Causes of Death
LOCATION: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: pocket reference
Patents: N/A
General Description: paper

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 14.9 cm
Width: 7.5 cm
Height: N/A
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Medical Technology
Category: Archives
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Government CA ON
Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
City: Toronto

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
Period: Presumably used 1920, and possibly later.
Canada: Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON.
Function: To provide list of acceptable terms to be used when completing a death certificate, in pocket-sized format.
Technical: Unknown
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: Front cover reads" FOR THE VEST POCKET OR VISITING LIST/ Department of the Registrar- General/ OF ONTARIO/ PHYSICIANS'/ POCKET REFERENCE/ TO THE/ INTERNATIONAL LIST/ OF CAUSES OF DEATH/ "The registration of vital statistics is the firm/ basis on which the whole structure of sanitary/ science and practice must rest. In order to learn the/ laws of disease, to devise remedies, and test them,/ we must have an approximately accurate knowledge/ of the movement of population and of the CAUSES/ OF DEATH."- Dr. Charles F. Chapin./ [Ontario coat of arms]/ TORONTO/ KING'S PRINTER/ 1920". Following text written on back cover "Division Registrars and Physicians/ may obtain copies from/ JOHN W.S. McCULLOUGH, M.D.,/ Deputy Registrar- General/ Parliament Buildings, Toronto." UHN catalogue no. "979.21.12" printed by hand in pencil in lower right corner of inside front cover, and in lower right corner of back cover.
Missing: None.
Finish: Medium grey heavy paper cover; 20 light grey paper pages secured within cover by two metal staples; black machine printed text.
Decoration: N/A

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