Birth Registration by Mrs. T. H. E.

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · May 25, 1916

Birth Registration

By Mrs. T. H. E.

HAS the birth of your baby been properly registered? This is a matter in which all parents should take an interest; and if it has not been done, it should be attended to without delay. “It may sometime be of the greatest importance to your child that there be in existence an accurate legal record of his birth,—date, place, and parentage. Such a record serves to establish his age beyond question, and through this his right to the legal period of schooling and freedom from labor. It may also serve to establish his right to a disputed inheritance, and to establish for him various property or other legal rights which may be in dispute. There are numerous instances where the lack of this sort of record has been the cause of serious losses of inheritance and of educational and other rights.

“It is, in most States, required by law that the doctor, midwife, or other attendant at birth shall report the birth to the registrar of births; but as this duty is not infrequently neglected, parents should investigate to see whether it has been done properly in the case of their children.”

MRS. T. H. E.