Brown v. State
Wisconsin Supreme Court
Error to review a judgment of the municipal court of Milwaukee county: A. C. Bracee, Judge. Plaintiff in error was informed against for that, being a physician and having attended upon the birth of a certain child on or about November 10, 1907, he, first, wilfully and unlawfully failed, neglected, and refused to register his name, address, and occupation with the local registrar of vital statistics for the district of Milwaukee, where he lived; and, secondly, that on the 5th…
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Error to review a judgment of the municipal court of Milwaukee county: A. C. Bracee, Judge. Plaintiff in error was informed against for that, being a physician and having attended upon the birth of a certain child on or about November 10, 1907, he, first, wilfully and unlawfully failed, neglected, and refused to register his name, address, and occupation with the local registrar of vital statistics for the district of Milwaukee, where he lived; and, secondly, that on the 5th day of December he did wilfully and unlawfully fail, refuse, and neglect to file a certificate of the birth of said…
1Opinion of the CourtDodge, J.
This prosecution is under ch. 469, Laws of 1907, which went into effect October 1st of that year. Prior thereto the notification of births had been required to be. made to municipal officers, in Milwaukee to the commissioner of health. The effect of the statute of 1907, now designated as sec. 1022 — 1 to sec. 1022 — 59, inclusive, was to create a state bureau of vital statistics (sec. 1022 — 1), to create the offices of state registrar (sec. 1022 — 2), and local registrars in each municipal subdivision of the state (sec. 1022 — 6). It *546imposed on the state board of health and the state…
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