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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.

Still-born children, or those dead at birth, shall be regis-
tered upon forms furnished by the State Registrar, and in
such manner as may be prescribed by the State Board of Health.
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 occur-
ing without attendance of either physician or midwife, such
still-births shall be treated as deaths without medical attend-
ance as hereinafter provided.

24. In the event of the birth of any child without the at-
tendance of either a physician or midwife it shall be the duty
of the father, coroner, householder, keeper of any workhouse,
house of correction, prison, hospital, reformatory, almshouse,
or other institution, master or other commanding officer of a
ship or vessel and the conductor of any railroad train to re-
port in writing, within four days next succeeding the birth, to
the local registrar or deputy local registrar of the registra-
tion district wherein such birth occurs, the full name of the
mother, the full name of the father, if it can be ascertained,
date, hour, and place of birth, and the sex and color of the
child, and it shall be the duty of the local registrar or deputy
local registrar to whom such report is presented to immedi-
ately investigate the same and to execute and send a proper
and correct certificate of birth as provided by Section 19 of
this Article.

And all physicians, midwives, informants or undertakers,
and all other persons having knowledge of the facts, are hereby
required to furnish such information as they may possess re-
garding any birth or death upon demand of the State Regis-