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State Board ofHealth for some time has been concerned with the under-registration of deaths, particu¬ larly of deaths among the very young.This study, conducted in 1959 with the cooperation of the State board of health, was designed with the following objectives in mind: .To develop a method of determining the com¬ pleteness of registration of deaths of infants weighing 1,500 gm. or less at birth. .Insofar as possible, to use the method devel¬ oped to measure completeness of registration of deaths for this group of infants.. To determine, for a selected group of pre¬ mature infants, the relationship between under- registration of deaths and such factors as birth weight, age at death, race, and marital status of the mother.At the time of the 1950 census of popula¬ tion, the U.S. Bureau of the Census, the Na¬ tional Office of Vital Statistics, and the North Carolina State Board of Health conducted a test of birth registration completeness (1).This study revealed that birth certificates were on file for 97.6 percent of white infants and for Mr. Rogers is director, bureau of vital statistics,
Rogers et al. (Sun,) studied this question.