HC Deb 16 December 1908 vol 198 cc1868-9
MR. GINNELL

I beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland whether the Local Government Board for Ireland or the local sanitary authorities have power to require dispensary medical officers to furnish a certificate of the specific cause of each death in their respective districts, and, when a dying person has been attended by another medical practitioner, to require a similar certificate from the latter; and, if such power exists will it be put in operation.

THE CHIEF SECRETARY FOR IRELAND (Mr. BIRRELL,) Bristol, N.

The matter is not regulated by Orders of the Local Government Board but by the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Ireland), 1880, which requires every registered medical practitioner to give a certificate as to the cause of the death of any person whom he has been attending.