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

  • Charles V. Chapin
Date:
1901
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Credit: Municipal sanitation in the United States / by Charles V. Chapin. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from the local sanitary authorities when such have been established; but in Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire and New Jersey the permit for burial is to be issued by the town clerk or city clerk, and in Ver- mont by thf town clerk, except in cases of communicable diseases. In California, if there is no board of health, the permit is issued by a justice of the peace. In Cleveland the permit is to be obtained from the health officer or from a police station. In New Jersey1 when it is impossible to obtain a permit from the town clerk it may he obtained from a judge or justice. In Delaware a permit is not required, but undertakers are forbidden to inter until a certificate lias been obtained from the physician. There seems to be no valid reason why permits should not he required in all cities, and the only objection to this requirement elsewhere — the diffi- culty of obtaining a permit in sparsely settled regions — may he met as in Connecticut, Maine and New Hampshire, by the appointment of sub- registrars to issue permits. The Maine law is given below.2 1 New Jersey, General Statutes (1895), p. 2008, Si That in case where, on account of the absence of the registrar of vital statistics or the clerk of any city, borough, town or local municipal government, or for any other sufficient reason, it may he impossible to obtain from such registrar or clerk a permit in time for burial, it shall he lawful for any judge of the court of common pleas or any justice of the peace of the county in which the deatb occurred, on presentation of the certificate of deatb to him, ami being satisfied that such certifi- cate is genuine, ami that no permit can he obtained in time for burial from the clerk aforesaid, t issue a special permit for burial in the following form: li being impossible to obtain a burial permit from the registrar of vital statistics or the clerk of i he [stating here t lie name of the city, borough, town or other local municipal government], on accounl of state here the reason], I. a judge of the court of common pleas or a justice of the peace], of the county of , do hereby grant this special permit for the burial of . whose death has been duly certified to me. which permit shall he dated and signed by such judg justice; the said judge or justice shall transcribe a copy of said permit upon the back of the certificate of death, shall give th iginal permit to the person deliver ing to him the certificate of death, and shall transmit the certificate with the trans- cription theron indorsed, by mail, in an envelope marked burial permit.' to the state initeau of vital statistics, at Trenton; the judge or justice who shall issue anj such permit shall be entitled to charge and receive from the person presenting to him such certificate of death the sum of fifteen cents. 2Maine, Chapter 118 of 1891, a- amended by Chapter i> I of Ifi Se( rios 8. The town or city clerk shall appoint two suitable and propei sons, in each town or city, as sub-regist tars, who shall be authorized to issue b permits based upon a death certificate, as hereinbefore provided, in the same man- mi as is required of the town or city clerk; and t he said record of death upon the permit is issued shall be forwarded to the town clerk within receiving the same, and all permits by whomsoever iss 1 shall be returned I town clerk as re.pt i red bj section seven of this act. The appointniei t rats shall he made with reference to locality, BO as to best suit t he