Birth registration and birth statistics in Canada / by Robert R. Kuczynski.

  • Robert René Kuczynski
Date:
1930
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Birth registration and birth statistics in Canada / by Robert R. Kuczynski. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Birth Registration Laws Giving Notice of Occurrence Registering Date of Act What is Registered? Who Notifies Registrar? Time Limit After Birth Penalty for not Notifying Who Keeps Register? What is His District? Fee for Registering April 1887 » Births Father; mother; person standing in place of pa- rents; occupier of house, or nurse present at birth 30 days .$l-$20 Division Registrar County 10 cents paid by munici- pality April 1889 » 1. Births 2. Baptisms [No change] [Physician, S3e amendment 1894, p. 161] [No change] [No change] [No change] Every person authorized to baptize County or sub-division Cure or con- gregation [No change] 5 cents (.includ- ins postage) paid by County April 1918 Births Attending physi- cian, midwife or nurse; father or mother; head of the family, or proprietor, or occupier of house; superin- tendent of hos- pital, etc. 10 days Max. $200 District Medi- cal Health Officer [Amended 1919: or to such other person as the Minister of Health may designate] Health District April 1927 b Births Attending physi- cian; nurse or midwife; father or mother, or head of the family or pro- prietor or occu- pier of house, or superintendent of hospital, etc. [No change] [No change] Sub-deputy Registrar City, town, incorporated village, or parish Yearly remu- neration paid by Board of Health a Repealed March 1897; no registration law from 1898 to 1918. ^Procedure according to Revised Statutes of 1927, and Regulations of Minister of Health (Edition of June 1928). Council, the local registrars in New Brunswick shall be paid a definite yearly remuneration by the Board of Health con- cerned. 4. While according to the Model Act notice of the birth shall be given within 24 hours by the attending physician or his sub- stitute and registration shall be effected within 30 days by the father or his substitute, the New Brunswick law only provides that notice shall be given within ten days by the attending physician or his substitute, the registrar registering the birth on the basis of such notice. 5. While according to the Model Act the local registrar shall transmit to the Registrar-General a duplicate of each schedule on the fifteenth day of each quarter and the original returns on the seventh day of each month, he shall in New