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I’ve finally got the 1955 Territorial Public Health Statistics Act posted at http://butterdezillion.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/1955-territorial-public-health-statistics-act/

Section 57-17 says, in part,
“Subject to sections 57-10, 57-20, and 57-21, the United States Public Health Service, National Office of Vital Statistics, may obtain transcripts or, without payment of fees, certified copies, provided the Territory is put to no expense in connection therewith.”

And then Section 57-21 says, in part:
“Subject to the provisions of this section, the board may direct local registrars to make a return, upon filing of birth, death, and fetal death certificates with them, of certain data shown thereupon to federal, state, territorial, county, or municipal agencies.”

Would you understand that to mean that the national vital statistics for Hawaii come from the local registrars who send the information from their copies on to the feds?

The reason I ask is because the national vital stats for 1961 include Hawaii stats from even-numbered certificates which include BC’s having no birth weight recorded - which is a required item according to the feds and is thus required in Hawaii also. So a BC without that information would not be complete and should not be accepted and given a number by the state registrar. But those records had a number when they were sent to the feds by the local registrars.

Seems like that means that either the local registrars sent their local file numbers to the feds, or the state registrar gives numbers to incomplete BC’s.

Any thoughts, anybody? Bgill, any thoughts?