A manual of statutes of Connecticut : relating to the public health and safety / compiled and published by direction of the State Board of Health.
- Connecticut
- Date:
- 1902
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A manual of statutes of Connecticut : relating to the public health and safety / compiled and published by direction of the State Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.
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![keep a record of the name, sex, and last residence, if known, of every person whose body is so received. Rev uiftirai § 4431. B0d'eS t0 be USed f0f med'Cal StU(Jy- SUCh b°dieS ShaU bC used for the purposes of medical and surgical study only, in a manner con- sistent with public propriety, and in this state only. Rev urn!1.151 § 4432. Disposition Of bodies Of COnviotS. The bodies of convicts Rev! 1888] 81788! wn0 die in the state prison shall, if unclaimed for a period of twenty-four hours, be at the disposal of the professors of anatomy and surgery in the medical in- stitution of Yale university, to be used for the purpose of advancing medical science in this state, and shall be subject to their order. lev! isS §raa § 4433. Inspection Of medical institutions. The mayor and the two senior aldermen of every city, and the selectmen of every town, may, at any time, enter and inspect every part of any building therein, used as a college, academy, school, or medical institution, in which instruction is given in the science of medicine, anatomy, or surgery. Rev.'Ire,p.5i3. § 4434. Dissections regulated; penalty. No professor, teacher, or Rev. 1888, §1734. iecturer, in any college, academy, school, or medical institution shall perform an anatomical or surgical experiment on a corpse in any building in which students are instructed in medical science, until he shall have given bond, to the state, to the acceptance of the treasurer, in the sum of one thousand dollars, con- ditioned that no corpse, which shall have been removed contrary to the pro- visions of § 1377 shall be brought within such building during the time that he exercises the duties of professor, teacher, or lecturer; and every person, who shall perform any anatomical or surgical experiments on a corpse, in any such build- ing, before said professor, teacher, or lecturer shall have given such bond, shall be fined not more than two thousand dollars. Rev. lis, §1735. § 4435. Hospital post mortem examinations. Whenever any sick or disabled person shall be placed in a hospital for treatment and before being removed therefrom shall die, am} such death is not caused by, or in the opinion of the coroner of the county wherein such death occurred was not the result of, the criminal act, omission, or negligence of another, it shall be unlawful for any physician to conduct or assist in conducting any post mortem examination or autopsy upon the body of such deceased person without first obtaining the writ- ten consent of his father, mother, husband, wife, child, or next of kin, or of the friends representing the deceased and claiming the custody of the body; and in case the hospital authorities, after due inquiry and diligence, shall be unable to find such relative or friends such autopsy shall not be made until after reasonable time, not exceeding forty-eight hours, has elapsed. Every person violating any provision of this section shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars. Rev lis8'§1736 §4436. Penalty. Every selectman, mayor, sheriff, coroner, or jailer, the 1893, ch. 38, §3. master of any almshouse, asylum, hospital, morgue, or other public institution which is supported, in whole or in part, at public expense, who shall deliver a corpse, for the purposes of medical and surgical study, to any person in violation of any provision of this chapter, and every person who shall violate any provision of this chapter for which no other penalty is prescribed, and every person knowing that the deceasedJifti^elatives, either by blood or marriage,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21012064_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
