640 HEALTH. [ART. 43

place, cause of death, duration of illness, and names, residences, birth-
piace of parents, name and address of attending 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 heid to be
complete or correct that does not supply all of the items of information
called for under the provisions 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 registered 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 per-
mit in the usual form shall be required. Midwives shall not sign cer-
tificates of death for still-born children; but in such cases, and in the
case of still-births occurring without attendance of either physician or
midwife, such still-births shall be treated as deaths without medical
attendance as hereinafter provided.*
See section 301.

1904, art. 43, sec. 10. 1898, ch. 312, sec. 6D. 1912, ch. 696, sec. 10.
1914, ch. 747, sec. 10.

11. Every County Eegistrar shall distribute to all local and deputy
local registrars and other persons within his jurisdiction who, in his
judgment, are likely to need them, blank forms of certificates and
returns, supplied to him by the State Registrar of Vital Statistics;
shall execute the provisions of all local ordinances or regulations not
contrary to sections 9, 11-13, 15-17 and 21 that may be enacted to
more effectually insure correct registration of births and deaths; shall
record in the, books furnished by the State Registrar of Vital Statistics
such facts as may be therein required; shall amend his records in red
ink over his signature as he may discover mistakes or omissions, and
shall immediately notify the State Registrar of Vital Statistics in writ-
ing of such amendments; shall, if possible, keep such records in a fire-
proof safe. And on or before the fifteenth of each month send to the

*The act of 1912, chapter 696, went into effect July 1, 1912. See the title of
the act of 1912, chapter 696.