Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1911-08-17

aw for failure TO report ueaths anu
punishment is also provided tor
failure to take out burial permit
before the body is inferred or for
interrment without a
permit.
Births are to be reported by the
or midwife in attendance
and in the event of no medical
or if no midwife is pres
emf the father or mother must attend
to the registration. A heavy penal
ty is attached to failure to make the
proper report. Kansas at this time
has no law regulating the practise OF
midwlves but the Vital Statistics
Law compells them to register as
we'll as every undertaken and physl-
elan, with the local registrar, and
penalties are provided for practising
without registering.
A host of good reasons m ar
shall themselves up for the reglstra-
ton of births. Track can be kept
of the movement of population. a
large per cent of our practice in the
courts requires a definite statement
of age. Offenders in certain wrong
full actions under the age of twenty
five 90 to the reformatory. 1t often
cost the State much money to deter
mine these ages. District Judges in
Kansas have said that the faulty
memories of parents often causes
much trouble and expenditure In
learning the corret ages of the often
ders. Frequently there are charges
statutory offense inwhich it is very
essential to prove ages. 1t is assert
ed that there are men in the peni-
Tertiary to-day because ages could
not be proven.
On the civil side of the legal phase
there are certain cases coming up
in relation to property in which ages
are of great importance. The rights
of a minor are maintained in GER
tain instances year after the age of
majority has been attained. Sup
pose case appears in which an
attempt is being made to cheat an
heir out of property where the age
is of vital importance. Right there
an official authentic record could
shape the determination of a whole
dispute with no loss of time and nc
question of accuracy. There are
always cases in inheritance where
descent and age are necessary anC
desirable. The courts are continu
ally demanding certificates of birth
, and deaths.
= A striking example Of the need o
Vital Statistics law came up recent
a in Topeka. a young man ant
d his parents moved back to Europe
The parents were born across tn
~ sea but the son was born in Topeka
= The latter desired to come back t
. Topeka for his education. II
landed at Ellis Island and had Jul
= enough money to Topeka and tn
officers raised the question of h
:. being an INDECENT foreigner. h
insisted that he was born in Iopek
= but had noproof it. Efforts wei
II made in this city to get facts abo,
! the matter but nothing could
found until Father Hayden BEGAN
interested in the case. He searche
10 the records of his parish for wee
and finally located the midwife WI
attended at his birth and seventeC
-. years after he was born the fact
a his birth was registered and he W
permitted to enter his native Ian
That was a striking example of Il
&c need of vital statistics law.
80 There is another argument cite
which cannot be improved on. r
., years it has been the custom
o. register horses, cattle, hogs al
sc other livesnock but the human ra
has not, until now seen fit to spel
90 twenty-five cent for the registrati'
- of birth or death.
;" For aummer diarrhoea in children