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C. C, PROTESTS DEATH RECORD COLOR SYSTEMPoe Asserts Organization Is Aganist Proposed Statistics PlanDOCTOR BACKS MOVEHealth Chief Wants City To Have Improved National Mortality RateProtest against segregation of Spanish-speaking El Pasoans as“colored” in birth and death records will he made to Washington officials if necessary to prevent the City-County Health Unit from adopting the Department of Commerce regulation, A. B. Poe, president of theChamber of Commerce, said today.Alex Powell, city registrar, said he will list Spanish-speaking persons as colored on death records to reduce El Paso’s white infant mortality rate. The Department of Commerce has approved this procedure and it is now being followed in other Texas cities.Hearing Today
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El Paso Herald Post
El Paso, Texas, US
Wed, Oct 07, 1936
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