The attending physician was from the hospital to which the infant had been sent, he wasn't the delivering doctor, he would have needed something to identify the child before he could 'sign off' on a death certificate, right? And just what might that identification have been? Something like a certificate of birth from the Wahiawa Hospital?
In the name of Tomiyo Sunhara.
If everything now rests upon Virginia NOT having any birth record, even in the name of her father...when she reached what-ever hospital she was transferred to for emergency treatment, aren't we closing the door to what might have been the reason her cerificate number is so much out of sequence? Don't we want to know what lies behind that Mean Absolute Error?
Find Mae Obado and I'll forget about it.
Mean Absolute Error.
Errr - only female names?
Call a cemetery and ASK them how it all works when an infant one day old dies. They will tell you.
The Dr. that attends at the death signs the DC paperwork. The parents sign paperwork also. I know this personally - I have been through it.
Stop looking for loopholes in this one thing - they don’t exist.