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1898, ch. 312.

6 A. The health officers of the various counties and the health
officers of all towns and cities not already by charter or ordinance
provided with a registrar of vital statistics, shall be ex officio
local registrar of vital statistics, and shall qualify, by oath, to
perform faithfully their duties as such.

Ibid.

6 B. All physicians shall be sub-registrars of vital statistics,
and shall be authorized and required to make all such records
and certificates as are made and issued by the local registrar, and
shall, in the first five days of each month, send to the local regis-
trar all certificates and records made during the month next
preceding.

Ibid.

6 c. 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, and the names, color, occupa-
tion, birth place and residence of parents, name and address of
the physician, mid-wife or attendant at the birth. The record of
a death shall state the date and place of its occurrence, name,
age, sex, color, condition, birth place, cause of death, duration of
illness; the names, residence and color of parents, and the name
and address of the attending physician.

Ibid.

6 D. Every local registrar shall distribute to all sub-registrars
and other persons in his district, who, in his judgment, are likely
to need them, blank forms of certificates and returns required by
law to be made to him; shall execute the provisions of all local
ordinances not contrary to law, 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 as he may discover mistakes or omissions; shall, if
possible, keep such records in a fire proof safe; shall, on or
before the tenth day of each month, transmit to the State Regis-
trar of Vital Statistics, in the envelopes furnished for that pur-
pose, the originals of all certificates, permits and records remain-
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