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STATISTICS OF CAUSES OF DEATH. JUNE 19,1934. 3787 TG tsfthU· fStlAf' thG Multilateral agree- HE ovemmen 0 e mon0 OU1 rICa, e erman ment wit.h reference to Reich, the Commonwealth of Australia, the Federal State of Austria, ~~t:~~iCS of causes of Canada, the Republic of Chile, His Majesty the King of Egypt, Contracting Powers. the Spanish Republic, the Irish Free State, the United States of America, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ire- land, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of Hungary, His Majesty the King of Italy, the Republic of Latvia, the United States of Mexico, Her Majesty the Queen of the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Republic of Panama, the Republic of Paraguay, His Majesty the Shah of Persia, the Republic of Poland, the Czechoslovak Republic and the United States of Venezuela, recognising the importance of ensuring as far as possible the uniformity and comparability of statistics of causes of death, the undersigned Plenipotentiaries, being duly authorised thereto, have agreed upon the following provisions:- ARTICLE 1. Without prejudice to the provisions of the protocol of signature annexed hereto, the present agreement applies to the metropolitan territories of the Contracting Governments, and to any other ter- ritories to which it may have been extended under article 8. ARTICLE 2. Territories included. P03t. p. 3791. 1. Statistics of causes of death shall be compiled and published clTarmstroBot (talk) 19:00, 19 November 2014 (UTC)!!Dunl Dom!.'n- according to one uniform nomenclature, hereinafter referred to as tiS~i~~r~:~ ~fa:ta­ the "minimum nomenclature." These statistics shall either follow strictly the mfuimum nomenclature, or, if they are given in greater detail, be so arranged that by suitable grouping they can be reduced to the minimum nomenclature, each serial number of these more detailed statistics showing after it in brackets the corresponding serial number in the minimum nomenclature. 2. The Contracting Governments agree to adopt as the first m~~cl!~;:.~~iate DO- minimum nomenclature the "intermediate nomenclature" recom- mended at Paris on the 19th October, 1929, by the International Commission for the Decennial Revision of the International Nomen- clature of Diseases.