THE SCIENTIFIC IMPORTANCE OF MORE COMPLETE 
VITAL STATISTICS OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN. 
U. O. B. WINGATE, M. D., 
Secretary State Board of Health. 
Section 1023 of the Revised Statutes provides as follows: 
“Every physician, or other professional person, under whose 
care a birth shall take place, shall at once make a record thereof, 
in a book therefor, which shall contain, so far as can be ascer¬ 
tained, the full name of the child, if any shall have been con¬ 
ferred, its sex, color, names of any other child or children of the 
same parents living, full name and occupation of the father, full 
name of mother previous to marriage, the day, hour and place 
in and at which such birth occurred, and shall within thirty 
days after such birth return the same facts in the form of a cer¬ 
tificate, duly dated and signed by him, to the register of deeds 
of the county in which such birth shall have taken place. In 
case any birth shall occur without the care of a physician, or 
other professional person, and no physician or other such person 
shall be in attendance professionally upon the mother immedi¬ 
ately thereafter, the parent or parents of such child shall certify 
and make return of such birth to the register, in the manner 
and form, and within the period above required. ” 
Section 1024 provides that: “Every physician or surgeon, 
who shall be in attendance professionally at the time of the 
death of any person, shall at once make a record of such death 
in a book therefor, which record shall, so far as can be ascer¬ 
tained, contain the full name, sex, color, age, occupation, place 
of birth, name of parents, time and place of death, and the dis¬ 
ease or cause of death, and, if within his knowledge, the name 
of the burial ground in which interred, and, if married at the 
