"Medical Certificate of Cause of Death"

[mazi]

Victorianlondon.org suggests that the medical certificate of cause of death should be given to the clergyman at the time of burial.

Today a cremation requires two doctors to sign the certificate, a fact not necessarily recorded on the death certificate, in my case the undertaker required the medical cert. to produce to the crematorium.


This still does not answer the question of where, if anywhere, they were kept all those years ago.

Mike

[Jebber]

The Medical Certificate is given to the Registrar at the time the death is registered, in return the Registrar gives you a Certificate for Burial or Cremation (a green form)  to give to the Funeral Director allowing him to proceed.

If the Medical Certificates survives I would imagine they are held by the local Registrar, if not destroyed after a cerain period of time, as are all medical records.

Jebber

[stanmapstone]

Victorianlondon.org suggests that the medical certificate of cause of death should be given to the clergyman at the time of burial.
Mike

The 1874 Act states that
The registrar, upon registering any death or upon receiving a written requisition to attend at a house to register a death, or upon receiving such written notice of the occurrence of a death, accompanied by a medical certificate as is before provided by this Act, shall forthwith, or as soon after as he is required, give, without fee or reward, either to the person giving information concerning the death or sending the requisition or notice, or to the undertaker or other person having charge of the funeral of the deceased, a certificate under his hand that he has registered or received notice of the death as the case may be.[/b]
Stan

[coombs]

When the person died, if the case was after 1874, the GP gave a medical cert, which was given to the informant to take to the registrar who as said gave the Burial or Cremation cert to hand to the clergyman.

Death certs prior to 1874 just seem to say "Certified".

So I think any medical certs would be with the relevant registry office if they survive but I would think after a while, they cluttered up the filing cabinets and were destroyed.