Show ting of Infants Urged by Criminal Identification Bureau Head It rI your our baby were today today to day could you Ou identity identify It years ears hence Z You could declares R. R H. H Wootten Woot- Woot ten ten supervisor of ot the tile st state te bureau of ot criminal identification providing providing provid provid- ing inS tl that at the childs child's footprint had haden been en taken at the time of ot its birth Mr Wootten advocates national attention to the m matter of childrens children's Footprints like fingerprints fingerprints fingerprints finger finger- prints afford po positive lt ve Id identification and md If national legislation ma made e it it imperative to include the footprint of oCa a child with th the birth h statistics hundreds pitiable tragedies would be e averted 1 URGES LEGISLATION If every state had Co footprint laws aws and required attending I phys phys- h 8 clans to take prints of a childs child's foot bot at the time of arrival the mater matter matter mat mat- ter er of ot Identifying children n who through negligence or criminal act be become separated from their mothers moth- moth ers ert rs could be simplified The most harrowing circumstance that hat accompanies the of ot otan an infant Mr lIr Wootten Woollen says saYA fa fit the fact act that a baby chan changes s so rapidly Il th hat t after acter a few months the parents I themselves could not positively rec gee l o the child as their eon son even if It were found Several harrowing cases of mistaken mistaken mistaken mis mis- taken Identity of oC children have arisen en in hospitals Mr Ir Wootten Wootton points out While no cases of this sort are are on oit record In Utah there is isa Isa isa a likelihood that an of this nature can can arise in any hospital hos lies pital where footprints of ot infants are not taken When there are from ten to thirty Infants being cared wed for tor by nu nurses s it Is not a a. difficult matter for the Identification tags lags to become become become be be- come come mixed CIrES CITES INSTANCE In one Instance Mr Wootten Woollen stated In an eastern hospital a Jewish mother was s given an Italian ba baby by while th the Italian mother re received received re- re the Jewish baby Just after the mistake was discovered and rectified one of the thc babies died The mother f c-f the dead child will al always ays feel that if ir her youngster had re received received re- re the care and attention that sh sho bestowed upon tho child she believed be- be her own that its death deaUl would have been averted Mr Wootten stated d that leading hospitals throughout hout the country nr rp Installing equipment for foot- foot printing babies and are keeping kee careful footprint f records to make pO positive the Identification o of infants |