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Can someone please answer a sensitive question
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Lynne | Report | 18 Nov 2008 10:14 |
I m not sure if this is the right board to ask on, if a mother in the 1950s gave birth to a full term still born baby, would the child have needed a death certificate. |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 18 Nov 2008 10:22 |
The child would be reg on the stillborn register and I think its a green slip that would be issued for the Undertakers authority to arrange the funeral |
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Lynne | Report | 18 Nov 2008 10:30 |
Thank you Shirley |
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JMW | Report | 18 Nov 2008 13:47 |
A child that is still-born, ie showed no signs of life after being delivered from its mother, would be registered in the Register of Still Births. A certificate of still-birth is issued (although different registration districts work slightly differently on this). When full the still-birth register is sent to GRO and not kept at the local office. A white certificate of burial is issued by the Registrar to allow a funeral to take place. This does not necessarily involve a local funeral director as sometimes the hospital where the baby was born will 'organize' a funeral. |
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JMW | Report | 18 Nov 2008 13:49 |
Sorry, I forgot to add that if a neo-natal death occurs ie born alive and then dies, a birth and a death certificate is available. |