1134 LAWS OF MARYLAND. [Ch. 696]

place of death, date of burial, and name and address of the
undertaker.

SEC. 9. The record of a birth shall state the date and place
of its occurrence, name in full, sex and color, and the number of
the child, whether living or still-born, whether a twin, triplet or
other plural birth and the name, color, occupation, birthplace
and residence of parents. A separate certificate shall be
required for each child in case of plural birth. The certificate
of births shall contain the items specified in this section and
such other items as the State registrar of vital statistics may
deem important or necessary subject to the approval of the
State Board of Health. The record of a death shall state the date
and place of its occurrence, name, age, sex, color, occupation, con-
dition, birthplace, cause of death, duration of illness, and names,
residences, birthplace of parents, name and address of attend-
ing physician and such other items of information as the State
registrar of vital statistics shall deem important or necessary,
subject to the approval of the State Board of Health. All such
records shall be made upon forms prepared and printed by the
State registrar of vital statistics and distributed by him for
this purpose. All records of birth or death shall be plainly
written in unfading ink and shall be signed by the person
required to make the record in his own hand writing. And no
certificate shall be held to be complete or correct that does not
supply all of the items of information called for under the pro-
visions of this section so far as it is possible to obtain the same.
And if such items cannot be obtained by proper and diligent
inquiry and search, the word "unknown" shall be entered after
each item so described.

That still-born children or those dead at birth shall be regis-
tered as births and also as deaths, and a certificate of both the
birth and death shall be filed with the local registrar, in the
usual form and manner, the certificates of birth to contain, in
place of the name of the child, the word "still-birth." The
medical certificate of the cause of death shall be signed by the
attending physician, if any, and shall state the cause of death
as "still-born" with the cause of the still birth if known, whether
a premature birth, and, if born prematurely, the period of
uterine gestation, in months, if known; and a burial or removal
permit in the usual form shall be required. Midwives shall
not sign certificates of death for still-born children; but in such
cases, and in the case of still births occurring without attend-
ance of either physician or midwife, such still-births shall be
treated as deaths without medical attendance as hereinafter pro-
vided.