Thanks.. I don’t see it as back-pedaling. I see it as clarification. Read it again.
She clarified that she wasn’t sure if West said that he was the actual OB/GYN or whether he knew about it in some other capacity, maybe medical mgt.
BUT, she still affirms the conversation, the fact West old her about the birth, which one would find unlikely if Baby O was in Mombasa, and she says its common knowledge on the island he was born there.
parsy, who thanks you for the info
Of course you don't, since you're doing the same thing. She changed her story because she couldn't support the original claims. That IS backpedaling. You say she admitted she wasn't sure ... and that looks no different than the Race Bannon account, except he hasn't backpedaled. Thanks for proving me right again. Are you expecting a gratuity for boosting my reputation so high?? Sorry, I won't be able to help you out.
If true, we don't know whether Dr. West had seen a report of an HI birth or a report of a foreign birth to an HI resident.
If Toot went to a local registrar to report the Kenya birth of her HI resident daughter on Aug 8, 1961, the "accepted" filing (looking perhaps like the Blaine BC) would have gone into a pile at DOH separate in time from the Kap. hospital BCs.
Such a Kenya birth BC might have been reported to the newspapers one week before the Nordyke twins based on an "accepted by the local registrar" status in field 20 of the 1961 long form. It might not yet have been "accepted by the "Registrar Gen.", as it says in field 22, which may have been the trigger for assignment of a certificate number.
What I am suggesting is that DOH reporting of births to newspapers of births may have been made after BCs were accepted, but before they were filed in some cases. Also DOH may have reported foreign births of HI residents to newspapers without any special notation.
Thus the appearance of birth announcements in HI papers doesn't tell you where the birth took place or whether the BC was only accepted, or was also filed with a certificate number assigned. Fukino and Obuko weren't there so they may be guessing and the people who were there in 1961 are likely dead or retired.