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Tit. VI, Ch. 11. VITAL STATISTICS. § 1376-al4.
6 in the following section. In each case where a physician, midwife, or
7 person acting as midwife, was in attendance upon the birth, it shall
8 be the duty of such physician, midwife, or person acting as midwife,
9 to file in accordance herewith the certificate herein contemplated.
10 In each case where there was no physician, midwife, or person
11 acting as midwife, in attendance upon the birth, it shall be the duty
12 of the father or mother of the child, the householder or owner of the
13 premises where the birth occurred, or the manager or superintendent
14 of the public or private institution where the birth occurred, each in
15 the order named, within ten days after the date of such birth, to
16 report to the local registrar the fact of such birth. In such case and
17 in case the physician, midwife, or person acting as midwife, in attend-
18 anee upon a birth is unable, by diligent inquiry, to obtain any item
19 or items of information contemplated in the following section, it shall
20 then be the duty of the local registrar to secure from the person so
21 reporting, or from any other person having the required knowledge,
22 such information as will enable him to prepare the certificate of birth
23 herein contemplated, and it shall be the duty of the person reporting
24 the birth or who may be interrogated in relation thereto to answer
25 correctly and to the best of his knowledge all questions put to him
26 by the local registrar which may be calculated to elicit any informa-
27 tion needed to make a complete record of the birth as contemplated
28 by said following section, and it shall be the duty of the informant
29 as to any statement made in accordance herewith to verify such state-
30 ment by his signature, when requested to do so by the local registrar.
[39 G. A., ch. 222, § 13.]
SEC. 1376-al4. Standard certificate of birth.
1 The certificate of birth shall be of the United States standard
2 form, as approved by the bureau of the census, and shall contain the
3 following items, which are hereby declared necessary for the legal,
4 social and sanitary use of registration record :
5 1. Place of birth, including state, county, township or incor-
6 porated town, or city. If in the city, the ward, street, and the house
7 number; if in a hospital or other institution, the name of the same
8 to be given, instead of the street and house number.
9 2. Full name of child. If the child dies without a name, before
10 the certificate is filed, enter the words "died unnamed". If the living
11 child has not yet been named at the date of filing certificate of birth,
12 the space for "full name of child" is to be left blank, to be filled out
13 subsequently by a supplemental report, as hereinafter provided.
14 3. Sex of child.
15 4. Whether a twin, triplet, or other plural birth. A separate
16 certificate shall be required for each child in case of plural births.
17 5. For plural births, number of each child in order of birth.
18 6. Whether legitimate or illegitimate.
19 7. Date of birth, including the year, month and day.
20 8. Full name of father; provided, that if the child is illegiti-
21 mate, the name of the putative father shall not be entered without his
22 consent, but the other particulars relating to the putative father (items
23 nine to thirteen inclusive) may be entered if known, otherwise as
24 "Unknown".
25 9. Residence of father.
26 10. Color or race of father.