DAILY JOTTINGS.
"BEFORE YOU CAN GET BURIED YOUR SUGAR CARD HAS TO BE PRODUCED."
This was the statement made to a correspondent of this paper the other day by a lady who had visited the office of the registrar in order to register the death of her husband. She was returning home, as requested by the official, to find the deceased man's sugar card when she made the fore-going remark, and I thought surely someone was trying an elaborate joke.
TO CHECK FRAUDS.
It appears, however, that her statement was quite correct. The registrar, before he issues a certificate of death, has to make certain whether the dead person is registered for sugar or not. This is done mainly to prevent fraud, as any unscrupulous person could continue to use a dead person’s sugar card unless there were some such means of obtaining or cancelling it. The registrar not only requires the sugar card in case of a death, but also issues this important document to anybody who registers a birth.
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