Still Births

[charlotteCH]

Joy, That copy of the form is quite unambigous... and it would seem that registering a still birth was the way to go.
A tough call on the parent who did the registering

charlotte

[Guy Etchells]

Does anyone know what the law was/is about stillbirths and civil registration?

charlotte

The various Acts of Parliament are available on my website at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~framland/acts/actind.htm

The first Act mentioning still-births is the 1874 Act.
Cheers
Guy
PS Still-births did not have to be registered until 1st July 1927 as required by the Births & Deaths Registration Act 1926.
Prior to that a doctors certificate or a declaration that the child was still-born was required before the body could be buried.