BABY-MARKER LAW.
MEDICAL SOCIETY'S BEQUEST.
Confusion over the identity of two babies born June 30 at Englewood Hospital got official recognition fr>m the Chicago Medical Society. A committee of the society was appointed to draft legislation providing a standard system of marking new-born children at hospitals.
Dr. John E. Harger, president-elect of the society, in making the announcement, said that all of the ciiy's hospitals had marking systems, but there was need for a uniform plan which provided signatures of two witnesses in legal form.
The babies whose identitiss became clouded in doubt were those born to Mrs. Charles Bamberger and to Mrs.* William Watkins. A. jury of scientists decided the babies had been mixed. A jury of physicians decreed they had not. The Bambergers are certain. they have the right child and the i Watkinses are in doubt. The case is now at a standstill; pending a suit brought by the Watkinses against the hospital for £20,000 for alleged "lost identity."
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Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 221, 18 September 1930, Page 14
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