Phillips County herald., 1924-04-17
BIRTH REGISTRATION REQUIRED
BY SHEPPARD. ACT


midwife does not cease with the meer
delivery of the newborn and the af-
ter-caer of mother and child Incident
al thereto. Unless the birth of every
child is promptly and properly report
ed to the Local Registrars, someone is
guilty of negligence. And properly
means that every blank on the certi-
ficate is filled out, or good reason
given 70 rthe omission. The certi
ficate should be filled out so that it
can be read; now that sounds silly
but gentle reader, just drop into the
office of the Vital Statistician some
time and try it.
Twenty per cent of the certificates
have no name for the child---utterly
worthless are those certificates. Ger
tainly nature has given the parents
plenty of time in which to select a
name.
The Legislature makes it obligatory
on the assessors to count the animals
born in the state, but they are not re-
quired to count the babies; but ami
mails are worth money-are babies /?
How can deaths per thousand be COM
puted if the birth rate is not known?
And how is it to be computed ii the
births are not registered?
The Federal Census Bureau has re-
Gently tried out our registration and
found that We are getting about sew
enty-five per cent of the births that
occur. We have registered for the
year 1921, 1885 births; if that is
seyenty-fiye per cent of the births that
occurred in the year 1921, then there
were 26,1S0 births, and we missed
6,445 babies who are not known to the
state, 6,445 born of which no official
notice was taken-we do not know
where they were born or when, who
were their parents, etc.
Reasons why the birth of child
should be registered: To establish
identity: to porve legitimacy; to
show when the child has a right to
enter school; to show when the child
has right to seek employment un-
der the Child Labor Law; to estblish
the right to vote. to establish the
right to inherit property; to es-
tablish the right to ability to road
duty; to qualify to hold title to- and
to buy and sell real estate; TO es-
tablish the right to hold public Of
flee; to prove the age at which the
marriage contract may be entered
into: TO COMPLY WITH THE LAW.
This is the law for the registration
of births:
Certificate OF birth to be filed:
That 1t shall be the duty Of the
attending physician or midwife to
file a certificate of birth. porperly and
completely filled out giving all the
particulars required by this act. with
the local registrar OF the district in
which he birth occurred. within ten
days after the. date OF birth. And
IL there be no attending physician or
midwife, then II shall be the duty OF
the father or mother OF the child,
householder or owner OF the permises
manager or the public or private in
stitution in which the birth occurred
to notify the local registrar, within
ten days after the birth. OF the fact
of such birth having occurred II
shall then. In such a case, be the
duty OF the local registrar TO secure
the necessary information and sig
nature to make proper certificate
of birth. IL 'O7, p. 24i. Sec. 10; r.
S. '0S)."
This is the Penalty for Non-Co
pliance with the Law:
"And any physician or midwife in
attendance upon a case OF conhne-
ment or any other person charged
with the responsibility for reporting
births, In the order named In section
thirteen Of this act. who shall neg
lect. or erfuse TO file a proper cer.
tlflcate OF birth with the local reg
lstrar within the time required by
this act. shall be deemed guilty OF
misdemeanor and upon conviction
thereof shall be fined not less than
Ave dollars nor moro than fifty dol,
lors."
II you are not suer your baby has
been registered. write TO the State
Board OF Hath. and II they have no
record they will send won a blank
on which you may record the chllds
birth yourself II is not too late
at any time. and may be very i'm.
portant for him In the years to come
REGISTER YOUR cHILD's BIRTH
Nowi
Does As Told.