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Show Have You Registered Your Baby? Salt Lake City, Utah, Dec. 26 While scores of Utah county parents have taken advantage of the opportunity op-portunity of making certain that their babies have been registered and have mailed the census cards delivered deliv-ered to them about three weeks ago comparison with the birth rate of the county indicates that many have failed to make use of the cards. Since the inception of the "Register "Regis-ter Your Baby" campaign a month ago efforts have been made through the newspapers, the radio, the American Amer-ican Legion, Parent-Teacher associations, asso-ciations, women's clubs, service clubs and other mediums to impress upon parents the importance of responding respond-ing to tire request for information pertaining to births within the past 12 months. More than 100,000 census cards were distributed by mail carriers in Utah in an endeavor to reach every home in the state. With a yearly birth rate of approximately 12,000 births it was anticipated that a card would eventually reach every home in which there is now an infant son or daughter. Several thousand of these cards have been returned and are now being checked against the birth records of the State Board of Health. While most births so reported are found to have been correctly enrolled, enroll-ed, numerous instances of omissions or errors in reporting births have developed. de-veloped. It is for the curing of such defects that this campaign is being carried on throughout the nation, by the U. S. Bureau of the Census, and Boards of Health and the FERA in the several states. Parents wiio have not mailed their cards are importuned to get them into the mail at once and where cards are not available they can be obtained upon request from the State Board of Health, Salt Lake City, County FERA agents, nurses and case workers, local birth registrars regis-trars and doctors, or from the post-office. |