RT Journal
T1 VItal statistics in indiana.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1899
FD November 4
VO XXXIII
IS 19
SP 1173
OP 1173
DO 10.1001/jama.1899.02450710055012
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1899.02450710055012
AB The physicians of Indiana are, it is said, at outs with the state authorities as regards the working of the registration laws. The statute, it appears, has been so drawn up that the filling of elaborate blanks in cases of births and deaths is made obligatory, without compensation, on physicians, who are also required to make a semimonthly report as to births occurring in their practice whether, so far as it appears, there have been any or not. The State Board which secured the passage of the law had inserted the provision that the health officers must prosecute all physicians failing to duly report births and deaths, and this feature of the law makes the position of the local health officers a very embarrassing one. It is said, indeed, that there is difficulty in finding competent physicians who are willing to take the position. They recognize the injustice of demanding