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7) Death Register Volume 1183 covers the period from January 2 to February 17, 1943, and contains 383 death certificates numbered from 1 to 383. A comparison with death register volume 3 shows that volume 2, which has not survived, covered the period from January 18 to March 29, 1943, and contained 798 death certificates, numbered from 384 to 1,181. 8) Death register volume 3184 covers the period from March 30 to May 1, 1943, and contains 819 death certificates, numbered from 1,182 to 2,000. 9) Death register volume 4185 covers the period from May 7 to June 1, 1943, and contains 376 death certificates, numbered from 2,001 to 2,376. 10) Death register volume 6186 covers the period from August 20 to November 22, 1943. From the beginning of June 1943, the system of numbering the deaths in the death registers was altered. Whereas they had previously been numbered consecutively, from the beginning of the year onwards throughout, all deaths were now registered in sections of 185 death certificates each, each section being designated with Roman numerals. Volume 6 contains 555 death certificates, broken down as follows: – section V: 185 certificates – section VI: 185 certificates – section VII: 185 certificates This allows the inference that volume 5 must have covered the period from June 2 to August 19, and contained 740 death certificates, broken down as follows: – section I: 185 certificates – section II: 185 certificates – section III: 185 certificates – section IV: 185 certificates
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AMS, Z-V-10. AMS, Z-V-12. 185 AMS, Z-V-14. 186 AMS, Z-V-15. 184
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