Okay, thanks for that idea. So the little bit of the page on the left might be the right edge of another page that is connected to the BC we are presented with? And those codes don’t correspond to the hospital fields, but to other fields on the left hand page? Wouldn’t the hospital info and residence of mother need to be coded though? There is a list of codes for the hospital birth section detailed in the code book page I posted above (and they say this isn’t rocket science!). Hmmm....
The information for coding on page 14 is not for the hand coding on the form, but coding for a field on the magnetic record. If you look at it, they are taking information from two fields on the form - 6c and 19a ( examine the information given for the hospital and the certification of the attendant )and determining from the combination of those two fields what is to be coded on the field in the magnetic record. So in the case of this particular code, it is not a coding for field 6c or 19a