I believe the Daily Pen demonstrated.
1 ) Each Hospital and region send a batch of BC’s to the State.
2)The State makes sure, for each region batch, the doc’s are in chronological order.
3) The BC numbers are assigned.
The births are them sent to the newspapers in batch/date order
That’s why 0bama’s notice is near the end of the newspaper column, even though babies born Aug 5 would be ahead of him
Maybe they didn’t use pre-numbered forms to help control and account for all issued forms, but it’s pretty careless to not do that for a form used in this manner. An entity can easily use pre-numbered forms for control and also assign a later number for the actual birth recorded.
What is your source for this?