How’s this...In the 1950’s and 60’s grandparents or other relatives often called their local newspapers requesting that their new grandchild be announced in the newspaper when they had been born in another place, so their friends would all see the announcement.
The Hawaiian paper did say that they only announced births reported to them from the Health Department, however, I would question whether anyone at the newspaper really knows what the policy was 50 years ago. Even in banking where they have policy manuals for everything it would be difficult to locate what a specific policy was 50 years previously since the policy manuals would have likely been disposed of many years before.
Yes, the header is “Health Bureau Statistics”.
Here is the direct link to the research post. The links for subsequent posts are in that post also, it is a bit of a long read, but interesting:
http://myveryownpointofview.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/extra-extra-announcing-obamas-birth/
