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SOME ODD DEATH REPORTS New York World Prints Humorous Returns Alleged to Be Taken From the Records. ["Ottawa Daily Republic," 26 Mar 1914 page 6, column 5] The chief statistician of Wisconsin, in examining death certificates filed by physicians with the state board of health, has discovered and disclosed some of more than local interest. They reveal such aberrations of sense and science in the diagnosis of disease and the causes of death as to merit consideration from reformers who wish to put nearly every act of human life under medical supervision. A few instances must serve to illustrate the nature of a multitude. One report is this: "Went to bed feeling weak, but woke up dead." Another says: "Do not know the cause of death, but patient fully recovered from last illness." A third reported: "Last illness caused by chronic rheumatism, but was cured before death." Still another: "deceased never had been fatally sick." And this: "Died suddently; nothing serious." Some reports are mere absurdities, such as: "Kicked by a horse shod on the left kidney." "Died suddenly at that age of one hundred and three. To this time he bid fair to reach a ripe old age." "Deceased died from blood poison, caused by a broken ankle, which is remarkable, as the automobile struck him between the lamp and the radiator." A mother is reported to have "died in infancy." The significance of these reports lies in the fact that they emanate from the members of a learned profession, dealing with the practice of that profession.- New York World.
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