Report on registration, presented to the Quarantine and Sanitary Convention, at its fourth annual meeting, held in the city of Boston, June 14, 1860 / by Edwin M. Snow.

  • Edwin Miller Snow
Date:
[1860?]
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Credit: Report on registration, presented to the Quarantine and Sanitary Convention, at its fourth annual meeting, held in the city of Boston, June 14, 1860 / by Edwin M. Snow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    APPENDIX. [The following portions of an ordinance are based upon the supposition that the State Legislature has conferred upon cities the power to make ordinances upon the subject, and that it has also made all necessary laws for the regulation of marriages and for preserving the record of them. The ordaining clause and other particulars must be changed to meet the wants and customs of each city.] AN ORDINANCE in relation to the Registration of Births, Marriages and Deaths. It is ordained by the City Council of the City of as follows .' Section 1. A City Registrar shall be appointed by the Board of Health, who shall be a well qualified graduate in medicine, and who shall hold his office for the term of years from the first day of January next after his appointment, unless sooner removed by the Board of Health. Section 2. It shall be the duty of the City Registrar to keep a faithful record of all the births, marriages and deaths in said city, in accordance with the laws of the State, and in accordance with such regu- lations, consistent with such laws, as may be made from time to time by the Board of Health. Section 3. It shall be the duty of the City Registrar, semi-annually in the months of January and July, to obtain by a census from house to house, and to record, the information required in relation to all the children in the city who have been born during the six months next preceding. Section 4. The City Registrar shall furnish to the Board of Health, at any time, such information as they may require in relation to the returns of deaths, or any other subject connected with the duties of his office. He shall also, annually, in the months of January or February, prepare a report in relation to the births, marriages and deaths in the city, during the year ending with the thirty-first day of December next preceding, with such tables and observations as he may deem important, and as may be required by the Board of Health. Section 5. The Board of Health may appoint a sufficient number of qualified physicians as Assistant Registrars, in each ward of the city, whose duty it shall be, as hereafter provided, to grant permits for the burial of the dead, and to make an examination in cases where no phy- sician's certificate of the cause of death can be obtained.