Existing legislation, from 100 years ago, makes birth registration optional.

Extra marks are won by completing birth registration forms, immunisation cards, weight charts and a daily diary of their little one's moods, feeding and sleeping habits.

The paper could also be kept at the birth registration office.

Comprehensive birth registration largely came into being in the 20th century; reliable records are therefore fragmentary.

The following year, they initiated a census and birth registration and planted 250 cocoanut trees along the shore.