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<div>Pardon, Ken and Margaret, I based my opinion on The Oxford English-Russian Dictionary,</div> <div>where on p. 997 s. v. vital the vital statistics phrase is translated as "demograficheskaja statistika" (also with a"hint to its figurative meaning about woman's measuremen).</div> <div> </div> <div>As you could guess my native language is Russian. I am sorry.</div> <div> </div> <div>Hayim<BR><BR><B><I>Margaret Marks <margaret.marks@gmail.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"> <DIV id=ygrp-text> <div>Hayim,<BR><BR> <DIV class=gmail_quote>On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 8:13 PM, Hayim Sheynin <<A
href="mailto:hsheynin19444@yahoo.com">hsheynin19444@<WBR>yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<BR> <BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(204,204,204) 1px solid"> <DIV><BR> <DIV>Secondly, I am in doubt that it can be understood as "vital statisics office." </DIV> <DIV>It is just office for legal registration of acts of births, marriages, producing passports</DIV> <DIV>(a kind of identity card) and registration of deaths, that before 1917 was done in </DIV> <DIV>the local offices of police (politsejskaja chast'). ...</DIV></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE> <DIV><BR>I've forgotten all the Russian I ever knew, but surely 'vital statistics' is just the American term for births, marriages and deaths? (In British English, vital statistics are a woman's bust, waist and hip measurements)<WBR>.<BR><BR>Regards<BR><BR>Margaret Marks <BR></DIV></DIV><BR> <div></div></DIV><!--End group email --></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR><BR>Dr. Hayim Y. Sheynin<p>
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