Municipal ordinances, rules and regulations pertaining to public health : adopted from July 1, 1911 to December 31, 1911, by cities of the United States having a population of over 10,000 in 1910 / compiled by direction of the Surgeon General by John W. Trask.

Date:
[1913]
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Credit: Municipal ordinances, rules and regulations pertaining to public health : adopted from July 1, 1911 to December 31, 1911, by cities of the United States having a population of over 10,000 in 1910 / compiled by direction of the Surgeon General by John W. Trask. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, DEATHS, INTERMENTS, AND DISINTER- MENTS. BINGHAMTON, N. Y. BIRTHS AND DEATHS—REPORTS OF. Births: Sec. 30. Every physician or midwife attending at the birth of a child and no physician or midwife being in attendance, the parent or custodian of a child born shall cause a notice of such birth to be returned within 36 hours thereafter to the office of the registrar of vital statistics upon the blank notice of birth provided by the department of health, and shall within three days thereafter file with the registrar of vital statistics a complete record of the birth upon the form prescribed by the State department of health, which shall be attested by the physician or midwife if any in attendance, and no physician or midwife being in attendance, by the parent or cus- todian of the child born. The physician or midwife attending at the birth of a child shall at the time of filing such certificate, unless it contains the given name of such child, cause to be furnished to the parents or custodian of such child a name card, which shall be filled in by such parent or custodian with the given name of such child when named, and immediately filed with the registrar of vital statistics at his office. Any person violating any provision of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of $2 for each offense. Deaths: Sec. 31. Upon the death or notification thereof of any person the physician last in attendance upon such deceased shall immediately fill out a certificate of death, giving full name of deceased, medical attendance, date and probable cause of death, duly certify to same and deliver the certificate to the undertaker or person having charge of corpse; and it shall be the duty of the undertaker to obtain the information necessary to complete the certificate from some member of the family of the de- ceased or competent person who is able to furnish the facts; and after duly recording the same on the certificate shall cause it to be filed with the registrar of vital statistics within 24 hours after having received the certificate. In case an inquest is required by law, the coroner or the coroner’s physician shall fill out “said certificate.” If no inquest is required and no physician was intendance at the time of death or immedi- ately prior thereto, the health officer shall fill out and file said certificate. Any person violating any of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of $5 for each offense. [Amendment to sanitary code, adopted July 28, 1911.] ORANGE, N. J. MARRIAGES AND BIRTHS—CERTIFICATES OF, TO BE MADE. Section 82 of the ordinance to which this ordinance is a supplement is hereby amended to read as follows: “82. The secretary of the board of health for the time being shall be ex officio reg- istrar of vital statistics for the city of Orange, and such secretary is hereby desig- nated, appointed, and constituted registrar of vital statistics as aforesaid and shall have all the powers and perform all the duties required of a registrar of vital statistics by the laws of this State or the ordinances of this board and such as have heretofore been vested in and imposed upon the city clerk of the city of Orange; and every person having authority to solemnize marriages shall transmit to such registrar of vital sta- tistics a certificate of every marriage solemnized before him within five days next thereafter, and said certificate shall be made out on blank forms furnished by said registrar for that purpose, and shall include all facts required by said forms. Any person or persons failing to comply with or violating any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of $10.”