Certification of Death

[paul1801]

Hi all,

does anyone know what it means when on the death certificate it states that the death was not certified?
I have several death certs which all have the cause of death followed by certified, however this one does not?
It simply states "not certified"

any ideas?

Paul

[v.wells]

What time frame is it? My imagination thinks that in war time if a body couldn't be positively identified, therefore it wouldn't be certified. Or else the death notification was verbally informed but the body missing. What was the cause of death?

[Peter Goodey]

It simply means that a doctor hasn't certified it. It was more common in the early days of civil registration but still legally possible, although rare, today.

[paul1801]

Hi all,

in hindsight I should have put the date on, it was 1857, cause of death

"Disease of the liver 10 years"

Paul

[Peter Goodey]

Barbara Dixon's site
http://home.clara.net/dixons/Certificates/indexbd.htm
contains a lot of useful information about certificates. She is or was a registrar herself!

[Guy Etchells]

It is as Peter mentioned simply that the medical certificate showing cause of death has not been given to the registrar within the required 5 days of the death.
Cheers
Guy