. Annual report of the Bureau of Statistics and Information of Maryland. tfc ^IW. A K., u •? Urtlnr,. ...... //^ Plate I-a.—Showing alterations of date of birth on original baptismal cer-tificate. Plates Il-a and lib show another altered and another cor-rect copy of a bai^tismal registry. The certificate brought byparents showed so plainly the effects of altered dates that theissuing official appealed directly to the priest in charge of thechurch, getting the reply reproduced in Plate Il-b, and show-ing the girl to be a year younger than represented by theparent. Plates Ill-a a
. Annual report of the Bureau of Statistics and Information of Maryland. tfc ^IW. A K., u •? Urtlnr,. ...... //^ Plate I-a.—Showing alterations of date of birth on original baptismal cer-tificate. Plates Il-a and lib show another altered and another cor-rect copy of a bai^tismal registry. The certificate brought byparents showed so plainly the effects of altered dates that theissuing official appealed directly to the priest in charge of thechurch, getting the reply reproduced in Plate Il-b, and show-ing the girl to be a year younger than represented by theparent. Plates Ill-a and Ill-b show an attempt at misrepresenta-tion of a childs age through the alteration of the date ofbirth given (Plate Ill-a ) by the attending physician. A let-ter sent direct from the office to the physician brought thereply reproduced in Plate Ill-b. The girl was born in No-vember, 1903, though the parent had atteni])tcd to pass heroff as one year older. Of simikir character are the otlier four exhibits, selected atrandom, though there is a wide range in the crudeness of theattempts to falsify the records.
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