The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

IPUBLI5AEDTtS?KmrniQ)M&YTML HPf^TA CAIgOLIhA 5TATL BOAIgP 5-^M£ALfal |[°]xxvm. JANUARY, 1914. No. 10.yiTAL STATISTICS REMINDERS.Physicians, midwives and parentsare required to report each birthwithin ten days to the local registrarin whose town or township thebirth occurs. If you don't knowwho is the local registrar in yourtown or township, ask your mayor,the chairman of your Board ofCounty Commissioners, or write theState Board of Health.Failure to report births may deprivethe individual of personal,social or property rights, and is aviolation of law.Undertakers, or persons acting assuch, are required to furnish a completedeath certificate to the localregistrar in the town or townshipin which the death occurs.Failure to secure a certificate ofdeath which gives the cause of deathand family history may deprive awidow or orphan of a pension orinsurance fund, prevent the StateBoard of Health from locating anepidemic which it can stop, causethe spread of disease, and is a violationof law.Local registrars should informthe State Registrar of violations ofthe law, giving names and addressesand the facts.If an epidemic occurs in a community,local registrars should informthe State Registrar, that theState Board of Health may takesteps at once to stop the spread ofthe disease.GOVERNOR TO COMPLIMENTMOTHERS.Will Write Personal Letter to EveryMother Who Has Her BabyRegistered.Governor Craig is greatly interestedin JJ^orth Carolina babies andin extending the full privileges ofthe new vital statistics law toevery baby born in the State. Tothis end he has just announced that,in special recognition of every babywhose birth is recorded under thisnew law, he will write the mothera letter and not only complimenther on her motherhood, but expresshis personal appreciation of her havingavailed herself of the privilegeof the new law. Babies whose parentsdo not think enough of themto have their births recorded will ofcourse not hear from the Governor.Along with the Governor's letterthe State Board of Health has askedto be allowed to send some of itsbest literature on the care and feedingof infants, in this way endeavoringto reduce our tremendous infantmortality.The Governor fully appreciatesthe great privilege the State affordsits citizens in making complete officialrecords of their births anddeaths. 'There is a provision in thenew law whereby births and deathsthat occurred before the law becameeffective last fall may be registered,and it is interesting to note that ourown Governor was the first citizenof the State to avail himself of thisprivilege and to file his birth certificate.