LLOYD LOWNDES, ESQUIRE, GOVERNOR.

and other persons charged with any duty under this Act, the
proper blanks, forms and books or record. The State Regis-
trar shall collect, tabulate and preserve the records of the vital
statistics of the State. Annually, in the month of January,
he shall prepare a general abstract and report of the vital
statistics for the preceding year, so tabulated and arranged as
to render them of practical utility, and shall have printed not
more than one thousand copies, of which he shall forward five
copies each to the Governor and the State Librarian, one to
each member of the General Assembly of Maryland, one to
each local- registrar of vital statistics, one to the Board of
Health of each State and Territory of the United States, and the
remainder to such departments, libraries and persons as may
seem to the State Registrar entitled to th'e same.

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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.

Ex officio
local
registrar.

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
registrar all certificates and records made during the month
next preceding.
6 C. The record of a birth shall state the date and place of

Sub -regis-
trars.

its occurrence, name in full, sex and color, and the number of
the child, whether living or still born, and the names, color,
occupation, birth place and residence of parents, name and
address of the physician, midwife 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.
6 D. Every local registrar shall distribute to all sub-registrars

Record of a
birth or
death.

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 provis-
ions 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
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Blank forms
of certifi-
cates dis-
tributed.