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Friday, March 18, 1938***** • .• i • • • • •Many El Pasoans Would Be Unable to Prove Date They Were BornMany El Pasoans and thousands of Texans couldn’t prove the date of their birth, their age or their citizenship, if called upon to establish their life histories because their births have not been registered as required, Dr. J. W. Tappan, director of the City-County Health Unit, said today.In a bulletin to the El Paso health unit, Dr. George W. Cox, state health officer, cited an unnamed but prominent Texas citizen who upon investigation found that his son had been registered for more than 20 years as illegitimate. Another instance the health official related concerned a veteran of the World War who, after rearing a family of three children, found that he had been registered at birth as a girl child.The experiences of workers with vital statistics are rich with stories of persons vainly seeking to establish their rights to property because of neglect of their parents or attending physicians to register them properly at time of birth.The law requires the births of all Texas babies to be registered with . the local registrar. He is the peace justice in rural areas, and City Registrar Powell in El Paso, within fivedays after the blessed event takes place, and forms are furnished physicians and midwives for this purpose.A copy of the registration is returned for permanent filing. These records are “vital” not only to the individual from a legal standpoint, Doctor Cox said, but to the State as well. - '■ _.1 - i • •• -
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El Paso Herald Post
El Paso, Texas, US
Fri, Mar 18, 1938
Page 7
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