Didn’t VI thru Z say they were sorted, piled and coded at the end of the month? How does this document code “home birth” ?..Is it different?
.. and yes it is a four.
Your memory is probably better than mine on that.
It does like a four to me as well, but it's very hard to tell. It certainly does not look like a one or a three.
The notation in the same place on the Nordyke certificate is also hard to tell. I think it is clearly not a three or a four, and if it is a one there is a period or smudge at the bottom of the character.