§ MB. CORRIE GRANT (Warwickshire, Rugby)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he will state the number of uncertified deaths in England and Wales during 1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, and 1901, in completion of the figures given by Sir M. W. Ridley on 24th May, 1897.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) The number of deaths of which the causes were not certified are as follows: 1897, 11,103: 1898, 10,441; 1899, 10,745; 1900, 11,257; 1901, 9,986. The matter is dealt with on p. xxix of the Registrar General's Report for 1902. The figures for 1901 represent slightly under two per cent. of all registered deaths.