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Vital Need for Better Recording of Births
A Melbourne allusion to better vital statistics urges compulsory birth records modeled on continental practice. The piece notes England Sweden and the United States progress, cites 90 percent nonregistration in some states, and calls for medical inspectors and funding to survey infant health and mortality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. L. Earnest
Church of
New England
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Bureau of Census
The
Public Health Service
American Medical Association
American Bar Association
Federal Census Bureau
Council of Health and Public Instruction
Cincinnati