In a message dated 05/02/98 12:25:35 GMT, you write:
<< Dead on railway runs to a considerable amount of detail, but these are
codes improted from ICD - presumably the state likes to know what sort
of people have
been dying on railways. >>
I was told that it was due to the fact that the original OPCS classifications
for cause of death were invented in the last century when rail deaths were
much more important than they are today.
Trefor
Dr Trefor Roscoe
Beighton Health Centre
Queens Road, Beighton
Sheffield S20 1BI
http://members.aol.com/beighton/main.htm
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