A Case of Chronic Hyperplastic Endometritis

These are much below the real number; and I may here mention that, when attending, some months ago, a married woman who died from tertiary syphilis, her friends were very importunate for me to suppress the real cause of death, on the grounds that it might lead to forfeiture of the burial-club money. I certified the death as due to tertiary syphilis; but now that this word is so familiar to the public, or even its abbreviation (syp.), it would be well if practitioners could, by some modification of our death-registration system, be spared the in- vidious choice of stating the cruel truth, or of suppressing it at the risk of giving an incorrect certificate.