The Bureau of Missing Persons of the police department of New York, says a Router's message, advocates the passing of a law requiring physicians, when filing birth certificates, to inchido the finger-prints of a newly-born child, thus "furnishing scientific identification of every person from the cradle to the grave." Such a record would be valuable, it is suggested, not only in pursuit; of criminals, but for the identification of persons killed in accident, and in. trao ine the- victims-of Mdnagna&i
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Press, Volume LVI, Issue 16962, 11 October 1920, Page 5
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