ge vg 7 we % oF Fron O64 Dr.S.Blango, MD, DPH, DIHL. Director of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, and Chief Registrar of Births and Deaths, ‘Tamil Nadu, D 359, Anna Salai, Chennai ~ 600 006. R.No.25233/SBHI-I/S3/08 Sit/Madam, To All the Assistant Directors of ‘Town Panchayats All District Revenue Officers All Commissioner of Corporations/Municipalities, Chief Medical Officer, Neyveli lignite Corporation, BHEL-Trichy Executive Officer,Cantonments, ‘Wellington & St.Thomas Mount. Dated : 4/7/08 Sub: Public Health — Preventive Medicine — SBHI ~ Improvement of MCCD — Reporting of causes of deaths ~ regarding, I wish to inform you that the causes of deaths have to be classified and coded as per 10" revision of ICD Published by the World Health Organization from 1.1.2000 Hence it is necessary that the causes of deaths have to be certified by the doctors who attended the deceased during his last illness. Tamilnadu state have shown only 25% of deaths were reported with MCCD during the year 2006, while Government of India insisting to receive MCCD for all deaths. The forms received by the Birth and Death Registrars have been sent partially to the Chief Registrar of Births and Deaths by the concemed authorities for analysis. For issuing MCCD, form Numbers 4 and 4A arc the prescribed formsio certify the Institutional and Domiciliary events respectively. AUl the Birth and Death Registrars under your control should be strictly instructed to obtain MCCD for all the deaths registered. Person in charge of the graveyard also be instructed to obtain MCCD form before disposing the body.