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- OBJECT TYPE
- DATE
- 1920
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 2002.0799.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Government of Ontario
- MODEL
- International List of Causes of Death
- LOCATION
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
More Information
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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