title: Sanitary medicine and the social body: the case of national civil registration and statistics in Canada, 1855-75.
abstract: Civil registration and vital statistics are important elements in the definition of a social body, the primary object whose health and well-being is the aim of social medicine. The failure of the federal government to organize a national system of civil registration in the Confederation era is placed in the context of a variety of sources of pressure for it to do so from doctors, social reformers, and provincial and municipal officials.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University.
authors.forename: Bruce
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Curtis
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D049672:History, 19th Century; D011634:Public Health / Q000266:history*; D012499:Sanitation / Q000266:history* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012952:Societies / Q000266:history*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000266:history* / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D014798:Vital Statistics