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

  • Robert René Kuczynski
Date:
1930
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Credit: Birth registration and birth statistics in Canada / by Robert R. Kuczynski. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (II) That in any case the amount of indemnity paid by the Federal Government for collection of returns by any Provincial Registration Bureau, shall be made upon the basis of the relative number of regis- trations returned. (III) That for obtaining the best results it is desirable that the schedules and forms for collecting returns be as nearly uniform as possible for every province. But this resolution was of no avail, and again almost 20 years passed before interest in Dominion vital statistics reawakened. As in 1893, the dread of epidemics was the moving factor. The Standing Committee of the Senate on Public Health and Inspection of Foods, realizing “that the public health of Canada is being considerably imperilled by the present custom of disposing of sewage, garbage, etc., into the lakes, rivers and streams of the country,” had recom- mended that the Commission of Conservation “be requested to call together the Health Authorities of each province to meet them in conference” for the purpose of devising means whereby uniform legislation in the matter of sewage disposal may be attained throughout the Dominion. “In accordance with this recommendation, the Public Health Committee of the Commission [of Conservation] on October 12 and 13, 1910, called a conference at Ottawa at which were represented the public health officials of the various provinces. Dominion officials connected with public health administration and the Public Health Committee of the Commission of Conserva- tion.” This conference appointed a “Committee on Har- monizing of Health Laws” whose report, adopted by the conference, apparently only refers to death statistics, since it recommended “the adoption by all the provinces of a stand- ardized plan of statistics on the lines accepted by the provinces of Quebec, Ontario and Manitoba, i. e., the International system.” But the Public Health Committee of the Commis- sion, in their report for 1910-11, submitted at the Commission’s annual meeting in January, 1912, went a step further by stating: It is essential that there should be a more uniform and systematic Commission of Conservation, Canada, Second Annual Report Including a Report of the Proceedings of the Second Annual Meeting Held at Quebec, January 17-20, 1911, and of the Dominion Public Health Conference Held at Ottawa, October 12-13, 1910, p. 118. See ibid., pp. 153-154.