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Show PARENTS URGED TO REGISTER CHILDS' BIRTH Utah county fails in birth registration! regis-tration! Eighty-six per cent against the deadline of ninety per cent. "Just h6w important Is this birth registration?" asks the average man when the matter is called to his attention, says Dr. Lloyd M. Farner, director of District Dis-trict No. 4, state board of health. And when the question is answered an-swered he sees in it a community, problem, one that we are all interested in-terested in or should be. Not just the physician, the local registrar, regis-trar, the U. S. census bureau and a few other officials at the state capitol or in Washington all of us. , No longer are we isolated communities, com-munities, living within ourselves, responsible only to our own little circle we are all part? of a great state, tied closer and ever, closer by the universal travel and methods meth-ods of modern transportation and communication. Neither Utah county or any other county, can afford to jeopardize jeo-pardize the standing of the state by falling below the national minimum min-imum any longer in birth registration. regis-tration. If some other counties of the state were not above the minimum requirements, we would, to our chagrin be removed from the registration reg-istration area and become one of the unprogressive states not included in-cluded in this most important phase of public health. . The future and security of every child is, or will sometime be affected af-fected by its birth registration and lack of such registration cause much inconvenience, embarrassment embarrass-ment and expense in future life. Birth certificates are now required re-quired for the child entering school, social security benefits to crippled children, civil service employment, em-ployment, entrance into military service, travel abroad and, in a few years old age pension. Let all citizens of Utah county make it our business to assist the physician attending the birth by giving him the proper names and other information required and then remind him to file the certificate within ten days of birth which is most important. |