Hungarian Babies To Be Numbered As Well As Named
A recent decree in Hungary orders that all babies born in the country be given a number at the time of registration, and mothers are willingly falling in with the new plans. . The number is not merely a birth identity; it will follow the child and adult all through its life. Every document, whether a bank savings book or a job in the Government or any other of the numbered one’s official acts, will bear the number given at birth. Such numbers will, so to speak, become as much a part of a person as its birth certificate. The idea is really to avoid confusion in cases of similar names. ... * Two parents are rejoicing that their baby bom in Budapest will go through life with what they regard as a lucky number, being the first numbered baby, and, therefore entitled to inscribe and be known as Hungarian No. 1.
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Southland Times, Issue 23634, 8 October 1938, Page 17
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