ove street, Berkeley.
Children's Home Society, 919 E. Twenty-fifth street, Los Angeles.
Children's Home Society (Branch), 3491 Sixty-sixth street, Oakland.
Catholic Ladies' Aid Society, City Hall, Oakland.
Oakland Associated Charities, City Hall, Oakland.
Little Children's Aid, 995 Market street, San Francisco.
Children's Agency of the Associated Charities, 1500 Jackson street,
San Francisco.
Eureka Benevolent Society, 436 O'Farrell street, San Francisco.
Native Sons' and Daughters' Central Committee on Homeless Children,
955 Phelan Building San Francisco, 322 N. Van Ness avenue, Los
Angeles.
3. Each licensee shall use due diligence to prevent the abandonment of
children, which is, according to section 270-271 and 271a of the Penal
Code, a penal offense.
4. A licensee shall not be permitted to advertise that he will procure
the adoption of children or to hold out inducements to mothers to
part with their offspring.
5. Maternity hospitals shall report on the usual report forms to the
State Board of Charities and Corrections within twenty-four hours the
name and address of any person other than a parent or relative, by
blood or marriage, or the name and address of the organization or
institution into whose custody a child is given on discharge from the
licensed premises.
Records.
1. Every licensee must have a register wherein he shall enter the name
and address of every maternity patient, the date of admission and
discharge of every patient, the name and sex of every child born or
boarded on the premises, the date of every birth, the legitimacy or
illegitimacy of every child, the name and residence of the father, the
date of removal of the child, the name and address of the person
taking it away, and, if relinquished by the mother, the date of
relinquishment, the name and address of the person to whom the child
is relinquished, and the reasons therefor; and if adopted, the date of
adoption, the name of the person signing the consent to adoption, and
the name and address of the person adopting the child. Every
admission, discharge, birth, death, relinquishment or adoption must be
recorded in the register within twenty-four hours after its
occurrence.[1]
[Footnote 1: The State Board of Charities and Corrections
does not furnish the maternity hospital register, it merely
prescribes the form. A book may be obtained from A. Carlisle
and Co., 251 Bush street, Schwabacher, Frey
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