“1) The Newspaper announcements prove that someone either phoned in a birth announcement or it was gotten from DOH records.
You’re already contradicting yourself”
“...and now you’re saying someone can phone it in?”
No, for completeness I put it out as a theoretical possibility in #1, then I laid out the exclusion of that in point #2. The newspaper announcements did in fact come from DOH records.
1) X or Y happened.
2) X is excluded, therefore Y happened.