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What Can Mchinji and Ntcheu Districts in Malawi Tell Maternal Health Pundits Globally?

2010; Medicinska naklada, Zagreb; Volume: 51; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.3325/cmj.2009.51.89

1332-8166

Adamson S. Muula,

Migration, Health and Trauma

Accounts of christenings and burials in England and Wales started to be recorded in 1593.In 1665, Bills of Mortality were introduced to provide statistics on deaths caused by the plague, with data largely derived from parish registers.The Registration Act of 1836 enabled the creation of the General Register Office, which was set up a year later.The Act required the General Register Office to prepare an annual report for the Parliament.Under the Act, families had to report the death to the local registrar of births, deaths, and marriages.Death certification by a medical practitioner was not required.All that was required was minimum information on the deceased -date of death, name, age, sex, rank or profession, and cause of death.Three years later, in 1839, William Farr devised the first system of disease classification (nosology).From 1845, qualified medical practitioners were supposed to certify any death.