Concerning Vital Statistics
By J. E. Froom
THE facts provided for in these blanks are to be gained from two sources. The first group will be obtained from the friends or relatives of the deceased, according to the information at hand. These facts are certified by the officiating pastor who reports the obituary notice. The second group of facts are to be certified by the attending physician, and even though correctly reported by the pastor, they would be useless as data for vital statistics. WE must therefore ask our ministers to see the physician of the deceased, and have him fill out the lower portion of the blank. In cases where this can not be accomplished by the pastor, he should fill out his part of the blank, place it in a stamped envelope addressed to the Review and Herald, and leave it with friends of the deceased to personally take it to the physician, and upon securing his facts written in their proper place over his signature, mail the report to the editor of the Review and Herald. J. E. Froom,
Sec. Medical Missionary Council.