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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    Section S3 of the ordinance to which thi3 ordinance is a supplement is hereby amended to read as follows: J “83. That the physician or midwife present at the birth of every child born in this city and in case there is no physician or midwife present, the parent or witness pres- ent at said birth, shall report in writing to the registrar of vital statistics of this city all particulars concerning said birth called for on the blank forms furnished by him for that purpose, and said report shall be made within five days next after the date of said birth. Any person or persons failing to comply with, violating, or offending against any of the provisions of this section shall forfeit and pay a penalty of $10.” [Ordinance, board of health, adopted Oct. 2, 1911, as a supplement to the sanitary and plumbing code adopted Dec. 1, 1900.] UNION (TOWNSHIP), N. J. MARRIAGES, BIRTHS, DEATHS, INTERMENTS, AND DISINTERMENTS—PERMITS AND REGISTRATION. Sec. 38. That no person shall disinter or remove from one burial place to another the body of any person without a permit so to do from this board, and all human bodies buried in graves shall have at least 4 feet of earth on top of the coffin in which is said body- Any person or persons offending against any of the provisions of this section shall, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay a penalty of $50. Sec. 39. That any physician, midwife, nurse, clergyman, magistrate, or any other person, who shall officiate at any death, birth, or marriage and who shall neglect to make return thereof to the proper officer, according to law, shall for each and every failure to make such return or report be liable to a penalty of $25. [Part of ordinance adopted Dec. 11, 1911.] YONKERS, N. Y. INTERMENT AND DISINTERMENT OF BODIES. Sec. 29. It shall be unlawful and all persons are hereby forbidden to inter the body of any deceased person within the city of Yonkers, or to remove such body therefrom, until a physician, registered in the office of the health bureau, shall have given a certificate setting forth the date and cause of death, or until a coroner shall have given a permit to make the interment; and before such interment or removal said certificate or permit shall be delivered to the health officer, who shall thereupon grant a permit for the removal or interment required; provided, however, that if the health officer shall not be satisfied with a physician’s certificate in any particular case, he may also require a coroner’s permit to be first obtained, and within 48 hours after the delivery to him of the aforesaid certificate or coroner’s permit he shall file the same in the office of the health bureau. Provided also that the health bureau may at its discretion issue permits for inter- ments within the city of Yonkers of the bodies of persons previously interred in any cemetery or burial ground in said city or elsewhere, and also permits for the removal of the bodies of persons previously interred in any cemetery or burial ground in said city; and provided also that the burial or transit permits duly issued by the board of health of other cities and burial permits granted pursuant to the rules and regulations adopted by the board of supervisors of Westchester County shall have the same effect within the city of Yonkers as permits granted by the health officer of said city; and provided also that the aforesaid provisions of this section shall not apply to inter- ments authorized by the health officer pursuant to the succeeding sections. Sec. 30. The aforesaid permit for interment shall be delivered to the keeper of the cemetery wherein the interment is proposed to be made before he shall allow such interment; and it shall be the duty of such keeper to indorse thereon, over his sig- nature, the date and place of interment in each instance respectively, and on the first day of each and every month to deliver to the health bureau a report in writing, showing all the interments made or allowed by him during the preceding month, specifying in each case the name of the deceased, the number of the permit, the date and place of interment, and the name and residence of the attending undertaker and at the same time he shall file with the health bureau all of the said permits which may have been received by him during such period. Sec. 31. The physician last in attendance during the final illness of any person who shall have died in the city of Yonkers, shall, within 24 hours after the death of such person, make, sign, and deliver to the family or nearest friend of the deceased.