Municipal sanitation in the United States / by Charles V. Chapin.

  • Charles V. Chapin
Date:
1901
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    the physician reports upon a postal card directly to the board of health the facts as shown below1 and the undertaker obtains the rest of the items before a permit is given. In order to insure that physicians shall report all the deaths which occur in their practice, it is advisable that they keep a current record of the same. A number of states and cities require this. Thus in the City of New York2 Every physician and professional adviser who has attended any person during a last illness or has been present by request at the death of any person, shall make and preserve a registry of such death, stating the cause thereof, and specifying the date, hour, place, and street number of the place of such death.'1 This rule has been copied in Chicago, Omaha, and other cities. Even where it is not the law it is sometimes the custom, as when blank certificates in book form with stubs are furnished to the physicians b\ the state or city. The interval of time after a death during which the return must be made is important. It is necessary that births, marriages and deaths should be reported promptly, otherwise they are forgotten and fail of record altogether. In those states and cities in which a permit is required before burial or removal, it is scarcely necessary to li\ this limit. A very short limit is sometimes set for reporting deaths from certain contagious diseases. Thus in Philadelphia physicians are obliged to sign certificates of death from contagious diseases in twenty- loiir hours, all others in forty-eight hours.3 In Maine4 the certificate shall be madeand forwarded immediately. Such a regulation is hardly Physicians are subject to prosecution ami fine for failure to return Certificate ol Death to Commissioners ol Health within 241 re. Certificate ok Death—Omaha, Neb. Name Sea Married, Single or Widowed [Jf^^*] A- V,.. Mo Residence No. street Date *l l>«-:»tii Duration of last illness Cause ol Death primary — secondary When no I »octor, in he i signed bj « on r. i M. I). I' adertaker -city of \rw Fork, Sanitary Code (1809), Sec. I7'.». :1 Philadelphia, Rules of Board of Bealth i L8 206. 1 Maine. Chapter lis .a 1891, amended by Chapter 154 of 1895, S<