It did puzzle me. My current guess is that someone at DOH back in 1961 didn't do their job, and they didn't actually create the document. They may have created a space for it, but they probably found out the child died and just didn't bother completing it.
Obviously Hawaii wouldn't want anyone to question the competence or integrity of their record keeping, so I can understand why they wouldn't want this malfeasance exposed. A court should not let them get away with it though.
The HDOH doesn’t create BC’s. The hospital creates the BC. All the HDOH had to do with the actual paper document was make sure it was complete, put the number on it, and file it.
So that explanation doesn’t wash.
Also they didn’t have the current electronic database back in 1961. For them to have the birth info for Virginia Sunahara that is on her COLB they had to transcribe that info directly from the original paper documents into an electronic file. If they’ve got anything in their system for events that happened before they began electronic filing for BC’s, it came from a paper document.
So they’ve got a paper document for Virginia’s birth, and the information has been entered into their database. Just like anybody else.
They just refuse to let her brother see it.
Why?