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ACCURACY OF DIAGNOSIS OF MUNICIPAL HEALTH CONDITIONS BASED UPON VITAL STATISTICAL DATA

ACCURACY OF DIAGNOSIS OF MUNICIPAL HEALTH CONDITIONS BASED UPON VITAL STATISTICAL DATA frequently are. Mortality statistics without morbidity records would be similar to a one-sided bookkeeping. Vital statistics, therefore, i'n its broadest sense, 86F forms the municipal health bookkeeping. To be of practical use it must be: 1. Accurate. 2. Complete; containing assets and liabilities, in other words, morbidity, mortality, births and marriages. 3. Available to the public. Accuracy.-Nothing is more detrimental to any health department than to have its records questioned, but to obtain accurate records there must be cooiperation between the health department, the physician, and the public. Without such cooperation no department can do efficient work and all its efforts will become nil. Every community prides itself upon its health conditions. Unfortunately. some communities, in their anxiety to outdo others, stretch this pride 'to a point where it becomes a common focus for suspicion. Accuracy of diagnosis and dependability on what is presented form the mainspring of all municipal health work. The registrar is the community's diagnostician, but he in turn must depend upon the practising physician for the reliability of his information. It therefore behooves the registrar to The American Journal of Public Health disregarding the other. It, therefore, becomes the function of a health department http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Public Health American Public Health Association

ACCURACY OF DIAGNOSIS OF MUNICIPAL HEALTH CONDITIONS BASED UPON VITAL STATISTICAL DATA

Franklin C. Gram
American Journal of Public Health , Volume 6 (8) – Aug 1, 1916
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frequently are. Mortality statistics without morbidity records would be similar to a one-sided bookkeeping. Vital statistics, therefore, i'n its broadest sense, 86F forms the municipal health bookkeeping. To be of practical use it must be: 1. Accurate. 2. Complete; containing assets and liabilities, in other words, morbidity, mortality, births and marriages. 3. Available to the public. Accuracy.-Nothing is more detrimental to any health department than to have its records questioned, but to obtain accurate records there must be cooiperation between the health department, the physician, and the public. Without such cooperation no department can do efficient work and all its efforts will become nil. Every community prides itself upon its health conditions. Unfortunately. some communities, in their anxiety to outdo others, stretch this pride 'to a point where it becomes a common focus for suspicion. Accuracy of diagnosis and dependability on what is presented form the mainspring of all municipal health work. The registrar is the community's diagnostician, but he in turn must depend upon the practising physician for the reliability of his information. It therefore behooves the registrar to The American Journal of Public Health disregarding the other. It, therefore, becomes the function of a health department

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Published: Aug 1, 1916

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