Besides birth certificates, the Pennsylvania Department of Health also handles marriage and death certificates. In the United States all records of life events must be kept under governmental authority. There is not a single vital records office in Pennsylvania, in fact there are offices located in...
Prentice, Fred – Echoes of the great Blizzard – In the three boroughs – Susquehanna, Lanesboro, Oakland, two deaths are attributed to the storm. The first death occurred last Friday, when Frank Steirch, Erie maintenance man, of Oakland, fell through a skylight while clearing snow from th...
Patterns of mortality from types of dementia in the United States, 1971 and 1973-1978 In the first analysis of US mortality data for different types of dementia, we searched all death certificates for the years 1971 and 1973 through 1978 for the diagnosis of senile and presenile dementia and...