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Certified?
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Christine | Report | 28 Oct 2008 15:45 |
Thank you for the replies everyone. I will have a look into the place of death to see if this can shed any light. Mental illness does run in family though, so it's possible my great grandad was as they said 'inane'. |
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mgnv | Report | 28 Oct 2008 15:40 |
I've still got a box of unused floppy disks that are certified. It seems clear to me that what the word is meant to convey depends on the context. In the context of a death certificate, a certified cause of death is one which a doctor has signed as the true c.o.d.. |
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♥Athena | Report | 28 Oct 2008 15:02 |
As you can see from my other post, the "certified by..." on a death cert simply indicates that their doctor had issued a certificate as to date/cause of death etc usually given to next of kin (I have a few of these - they are not the death certificate itself) - but he could only do this if he had seen the patient during the previous 2 weeks, had previously treated them for the illness or had been the one to attend at the time of death. |
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Thelma | Report | 28 Oct 2008 14:41 |
2008 |
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Kate | Report | 28 Oct 2008 14:16 |
I have a death certificate for my uncle which says his death was certified by an attending doctor (who signed the death certificate) but I also have two deaths relating to a set of twins who died from consumption in 1852 - both were babies - but on their death certificates it states "No medical attendance". |
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RobG | Report | 28 Oct 2008 13:54 |
I have a number of D.Certs that say Certified. |
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♥Athena | Report | 28 Oct 2008 11:09 |
Some more info on it for you: |
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JMW | Report | 28 Oct 2008 09:54 |
The term 'certified' on old registrations simply means that a doctor certified the death. Doctors names were not always added in earlier registrations. It has nothing to do with mental health / illness |
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Janice | Report | 28 Oct 2008 07:56 |
Hi Christine, |
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Bev | Report | 28 Oct 2008 00:59 |
i think certified just means that a Dr signed the death cert, in other words they were happy to sign the death cert without a postmortem |
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Christine | Report | 28 Oct 2008 00:39 |
I posted yesterday regarding my great x3 granddad whose death certificate says he died of 'disease of the brain' but it also said under that the word 'certified'. A lady suggested it was probably meningitis, but does the 'certified' bit mean anything? Is it something to do with mental health? |