No, only half that thick because there would be a book A. Also, at least two bc can fit on a page so that cuts it in half again. Still, thick books though more managable but who knows how they number these things in Kenya. I do hope Orly can track this thing down and remembers to check the other 3 births (at least two on front and two on back) listed on the sheet of paper to make sure nothing has been tampered with.
I’m betting London is more respectful of original documents than Hawaii seems to be.
I remember visiting the Middlesex County deeds registry in Cambridge, MA back in the late eighties. It was a crowded place. About a quarter of the people seemed to have bag phones (remember those?).
You started at the Grantor / Grantee index, which was an already hefty set of volumes periodically updated with new computer printouts. You looked up whomever and wrote down the Book / Page reference on a piece of scrap paper (helpfully provided). Then you went to the stacks and pulled down the appropriate volume and turned to the page. As I recall, a book was heavy and thick and had 800 to a thousand pages. Then you carried the book over to a free copying machine and stuffed in some nickels.
But you are right. We shouldn't draw any conclusion about book thickness from page number. For all I know, they could have numbered the pages starting at 1, bound them into books of a convenient size, and then created an index mapping names to book and page numbers. So, there might be a document at Book 100A, page 11471.