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OBJECT TYPE: pocket
DATE: 1942
ARTIFACT NUMBER: 2002.0800.001

MANUFACTURER: Government of Dominion of Canada
MODEL: International List of Causes of Death
LOCATION: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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General Information

Serial #: N/A
Part Number: 1
Total Parts: 1
AKA: pocket reference
Patents: N/A
General Description: paper

Dimensions

Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.

Length: 15.3 cm
Width: 8.0 cm
Height: 1.2 cm
Thickness: N/A
Weight: N/A
Diameter: N/A
Volume: N/A

Lexicon

Group: Medical Technology
Category: Archives
Sub-Category: N/A

Manufacturer

AKA: Trade Commerce CA
Country: Canada
State/Province: Ontario
City: Ottawa

Context

Country: Canada
State/Province: Unknown
Period: Presumably used 1942, and possibly later.
Canada: Part of a large collection of medical artifacts, archival material & trade literature transferred to CSTM in 2002 from the former History of Medicine Museum, Toronto, ON.
Function: To provide list of acceptable terms to be used when completing a death certificate, in pocket-sized format.
Technical: Unknown
Area Notes: Unknown

Details

Markings: Following text printed on front cover: "Dominion Bureau of Statistics/ DEPARTMENT OF TRADE AND COMMERCE/ OTTAWA/ PHYSICIANS'/ POCKET REFERENCE/ TO THE/ INTERNATIONAL LIST/ OF CAUSES OF DEATH/ WITH INDEX TO LIST OF/ ACCEPTABLE/ AND/ UNDESIRABLE TERMS/ AND/ LIST OF COMMUNICABLE DISEASES/ REPORTABLE IN CANADA/ Published by Authority of the/ Honourable James A. MacKinnon, M.P., Minister". UHN catalogue no. "979.21.13" printed on inside, lower right corner of front cover and in lower right, outside back cover.
Missing: None.
Finish: Off- white heavy paper cover; 92 white paper pages secured within cover by two metal staples; black machine printed text.
Decoration: N/A

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