Lax registration of death

[andrewalston]

I've just found a death in 1957 on behalf of a friend.

It took place at Our Lady's Hospital in Navan (An Uaimh), and the person in charge registered a group of deaths at the same time - the last four entries on the page I can see, and possibly more over the page.

However, looking at the first of this group, registered on 10 April 1957, I saw that the death actually occurred nearly a year earlier, on 28 April 1956.

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Was such a delay normal in Ireland?

For those who want to see the original on irishgenealogy.ie, look for a death of Madeline Proctor in 1957.

[hallmark]

Why not just post the Link to it instead of having people needing to search for it?

[andrewalston]

The image is at https://civilrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/images/deaths_returns/deaths_1957/04397/4144341.pdf

You may need to go through the various CAPCHA hassles.

[hallmark]

Maybe they just realized that Death wasn't registered??

[mmcpadden1]

A Death was supposed to be registered within a year.If that time was exceeded permission had /has to be obtained from the General Registrar by means of a Statutory Declaration.This is noted on the Certificate.There may have been practical reasons for the non registration e.g the Registrar attended the local village/ town about once a week at a specified time.This was often 3-4 mls.which in most cases had to be walked.So not really user friendly.Family owned cars were very scarce in 1950s .Public transport was spasmodic,depending where one lived.Another stipulation was the Cause of Death cert ,which was needed for Registration had /has to be signed by last doctor who attended deceased.Could be a problem in certain cases.Hope this helps.

[Sinann]

BTW if you want to see the 7 deaths he registered on the next page just open the link you posted than change the last digit in you link from 1 to 2 and hit enter

[Wexflyer]

Why is the registration lax 
It was registered, which is more than can be said of many deaths.