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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    that any person who, in the absence of a physician, '^assumes the responsibilities and duties in connection with the birth of a child’^ shall so notify the district registrar. 6. While according to the Model Act still-born children shall be registered as births and also as deaths, they shall in Alberta be registered only as deaths. 7. The penalty for a local registrar neglecting to make a return was not to exceed $25 in Alberta (as against a straight fine of $50 in the Model Act). 8. The fee to be paid for each registration was fixed in Alberta at 25 cents and, then, not left to the direction of the Lieutenant-Governor in Council. The Alberta law, after admission of the province to the Registration Area, was amended as follows: ^'An Act to amend The Vital Statistics Act,’^ assented to April 19, 1921,®^ provided that the Deputy Minister of Health (instead of the Minister of Health) shall be Registrar-General and that, while heretofore the Provincial Medical Officer of Health was to be Deputy Registrar-General for Vital Statis- tics, “the Lieutenant Governor in Council shall appoint a Deputy Registrar General.” The same Act adapted the registration of still-births to the Model Act by providing that “in the event of a child being born dead both the birth and death shall be registered.” While the law heretofore, in accordance with the Model Act, provided that the Lieutenant Governor in Council may appoint an inspector of vital statistics, “An Act to amend The Vital Statistics Act,” assented to April 12, 1924,® provided that he shall appoint such an inspector.® “An Act to amend The Vital Statistics Act,” assented to April 10, 1925,® contains the provision not to be found in any other province that “at the beginning of each school term, every teacher in charge of a school shall prepare a list of the children then entering school for the first time, together with See Statutes 1921, pp. 105-106. ^ See Statutes 1924, pp. 219-221. In revising the Statutes in 1922, provision, on the other hand, had been made that “the Lieutenant Governor in Council may [instead of “shall”] appoint a Deputy Registrar-General.” See The Revised Statutes of Alberta 1922, Chapter 24, An Act respecting Vital Statistics (pp. 301-317). The Revised Statutes contained also some other minor changes; they provided, for instance, that “every ’public school district shall be a registration district.” ** See Statutes 1925, p. 169.