ral 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
the children, which is, according to sections 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 and homes 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 of 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.[2]

[Footnote 2: 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 and Company, 611
Market street, or H. S. Crocker, 565 Market street, San
Francisco, and from Morris and Le Leviere, 218 New High
street, Los Angeles. These forms are kept in duplicate, the
perforated sheets to be removed and sent to the office of the
State Board of Charities and Corrections, as the semi-annual
report. The carbon copy remains permanently bound for the
hospital record.]

2. A semi-annual report, which shall be an exact transcript of this
registe