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Show Register The Baby Cooperation cf all FERA f eld nurses irj furthering the work of the "Register Your Baby" campaign throughout the state was urged Tuesday by Miss Anna Fillmore, state supervisor of FERA nurses. The FERA nurses have been provided with supplies of "baby census" cards for delivery to par- i ents who did not receive a card through the mail or who desire j duplica. os to replace these lest or , mislaid. Their work will be tc ! follow up the mail deliveries and I to urge all parents of babies born ! within the last twelve months to fill out and mail the cards promptly. prompt-ly. Other agencies cooperating with the state board of heal h and bureau bu-reau of vital statistics in effor.s to obtain a 100 per cent bir h reg-'istration reg-'istration for Utah through the "Register Your Baby" campaign include local birth regis' rars, county FERA agents and case workers, postofflces, doctors and midwives. All have cards for delivery de-livery to parents request ing. them. Board of health officials look for Utah to lead all other stal es in percentage of cards returned in the campaign if the ratio of earl reiurns is maintained. An additional addi-tional 1.000 cards were received Tuesday, making total receipts of filled out cards approximately 3,000 up to date. More than 8,000 must be returned if Utah goes into in-to the lead among states in which the campaig.1 has been conducted. Dr. T. B. Beat'y, state health commissioner and campaign director direc-tor Tuesday again urged all partnts of babies a year old or under to fill out and1 mail campaign cards postage free, if they have no. pi-ready pi-ready done so. He called attention to the nece.si y for birth registration registra-tion if a chQd was to receive every ev-ery citizenship right. |