Causes of death recorded by priests in pre-revolutionary Russia

To monitor the statistics of mortality in the Russian Empire officially began only during the reign of Alexander II, who signed the document. In the "position" of the Committee of Ministers said that the attending police officer or the doctor was obliged to write out a death certificate, which was then passed to the police. To bring the body to the earth was only possible "by presenting the cemetery to the clergy on medical death certificate".

The founder of the sanitary statistics in Russia Peter Kurakin, analyzing the materials of the 1897 census data on deaths during the years 1896-1897, found that the average life expectancy in European Russia for women was just over 31 years for men and 29 years.

We present to your attention the list of causes of death recorded by priests in pre-revolutionary Russia.

— ordinary decrepitude

from Portia

killed TRANS-Kuban predators

— from the basement

— filled with earth

from Zavalko

— girl 39 years: from elderly

from natural dilapidated

— glotocnaya

— black disease

— Roma from drying out

from Postini

Christian death

from natural exhaustion forces

from somerseta

— from sinful disease

— from the water.

— writhe happened

— a dog's old age

— killed the villainous hand

— tired in a furnace

— natural death

— shot through the window

— from blindness zaplutavshee in a field and died

— on-demand time

— light of life

from slagley

— from animal

— shot in a melancholic state