Manual of the laws relating to the public health : the powers and duties of boards of health, state inspectors of health, medical examiners and others and to the registration of vital statistics : with decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts relative thereto / prepared by the Secretary of the State Board of Health.

Massachusetts

Date:: 1908

Credit: Manual of the laws relating to the public health : the powers and duties of boards of health, state inspectors of health, medical examiners and others and to the registration of vital statistics : with decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts relative thereto / prepared by the Secretary of the State Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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opinion that no further examination or judicial inquiry concerning the same is necessary. 3. Where the death occurred without the Commonwealth more than ten years prior to the time of the presentation of the body for cremation, it may be cremated on receipt by said corporation of the certificate or burial permit required by the law of this Commonwealth before burial. All regulations heretofore made are hereby revoked.] BUBIAL OP BODIES OB ASHES THEBEOF. Revised Laws, 78. Burial and Exhumation Permits. Section 38. No undertaker or other person shall bury a human body in a city or town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, except as provided in the following section, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the city or town in which the person died; and no undertaker or other person shall ex- hume a human body and remove it from a city or town, or from one ceme- tery to another, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the eity or town in which the body is buried. No such permit shall be issued until there shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satis- factory written statement containing the facts required by law to be re- turned and recorded, which statement, in case of an original interment, shall be accompanied by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physi- cian, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as herein- after provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, the chairman of the board of health, if a plrysician, or any physician employed by said board or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make such certificate as is required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical exam- iner only shall make such certificate. The board of health or its agent, upon receipt of such statement and certificate, shall forthwith counter- sign and transmit it to the clerk of the city or town for registration. The person to whom the permit is so given and the physician who certi- fies to the cause of death shall thereafter furnish for registration any other necessary information which can be obtained as' to the deceased, or as to the manner or cause of the death, which the clerk or registrar may require. 1878, 174. P. S. 32, § 5. 1888, 306, § 2. 1893, 263, § 2. 1897, 437, § 1. Burial of Bodies brought into Commonwealth. Section 39. No undertaker or other person shall bury in a city or town a human body or the ashes thereof which have been brought into this Commonwealth until he has received a permit so to do from the

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