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Affiliation orders are as well known to magistrate's clerks, as are death-certificates of children bearing the maiden name of their mother to those of the registrar.

From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Malet, Lucas

Ten practitioners out of twelve hundred signed the death-certificates of one-fifteenth of the women dying from puerperal causes, and one-tenth of the cases of metria.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various