SEC. 9. That the undertaker, or person acting as undertaker, shall file the certificate of death with the local registrar of the district in which the death occurred and obtain a burial or removal permit prior to any disposition of the body. He shall obtain the required personal and statistical particulars from the person best qualified to supply them, over the signature and address of his informant. He shall then present the certificate to the attending physician, if any, or to the health officer or coroner, as directed by the local registrar, for the medical certificate of the cause of death and other particulars necessary to complete the record, as specified in Sections 7 and 8. And he shall then state the facts required relative to the date and place of burial or removal, over his signature and with his address, and present the completed certificate to the local registrar in order to obtain a permit for burial, removal, or other disposition of the body. The undertaker shall deliver the burial permit to the person in charge of the place of burial, before interring or otherwise disposing of the body: or shall attach the removal permit to the box containing the corpse, when shipped by any transportation company; said permit to accompany the corpse to its destination, where, if within the state of it shall be delivered to the person in charge of the place of burial. [Every person, firm, or corporation selling a casket, shall keep a record showing the name of the purchaser, purchaser's post-office address, name of deceased, date of death, and place of death of deceased, which record shall be open to inspection of the state registrar at all times. On the first day of each month the person, firm, or corporation, selling caskets shall report to the state registrar each sale for the preceding month, on a blank provided for that purpose; provided, however, that no person, firm, or corporation selling caskets to dealers or undertakers only shall be required to keep such record, nor shall such report be required from undertakers when they have direct charge of the disposition of a dead body. Every person, firm, or corporation selling a casket at retail, and not having charge of the disposition of the body, shall inclose within the casket a notice furnished by the state registrar calling attention to the requirements of the law, a blank certificate of death, and the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health concerning the burial or other disposition of a dead body.]1 SEC. 10.-That if the interment, or other disposition of the body, is to be made within the state, the wording of the burial or removal permit may be limited to a statement by the registrar, and over his signature, that a satisfactory certificate of death having been filed with him, as required by law, permission is granted to inter, remove, or dispose otherwise of the body, stating the name, age, sex, cause of death, and other necessary details upon the form prescribed by the state registrar. SEC. 11.-That no person in charge of any premises on which interments are made shall inter or permit the interment or other disposition of any body unless it is accompanied by a burial, removal, or transit permit, as herein provided. And such person shall indorse upon the permit the date of interment, over his signature, and shall return all permits so indorsed to the local registrar of his district within ten days from the date of interment, or within the time fixed by the local board of health. He shall keep a record of all bodies interred or otherwise disposed of on the premises under his charge, in each case stating the name of each deceased person, place of death, date of burial or disposal, and name and address of the undertaker; which record shall at all times be open to official inspection; provided, that the undertaker or person acting as such, when burying a body in a cemetery or burial ground having no person in charge, shall sign the burial or removal permit, giving the date of burial, and shall write across the face of the permit the words "No person in charge," and file the 1 The provisions in brackets may be useful in states in which many funerals are conducted without regular undertakers. burial or removal permit within ten days with the registrar of the district in which the cemetery is located. SEC. 12. That the birth of each and every child born in this state shall be registered as hereinafter provided. SEC. 13.—That within ten days after the date of each birth, there shall be filed with the local registrar of the district in which the birth occurred a certificate of such birth, which certificate shall be upon the form adopted by the State Board of Health with a view to procuring a full and accurate report with respect to each item of information enumerated in Section 14 of this Act.1 In each case where a physician, midwife, or person acting as midwife, was in attendance upon the birth, it shall be the duty of such physician, midwife, or person acting as midwife, to file in accordance herewith the certificate herein contemplated. In each case where there was no physician, midwife, or person acting as midwife, in attendance upon the birth, it shall be the duty of the father or mother of the child, the householder or owner of the premises where the birth occurred, or the manager or superintendent of the public or private institution where the birth occurred, each in the order named, within ten days after the date of such birth, to report to the local registrar the fact of such birth. In such case and in case the physician, midwife, or person acting as midwife, in attendance upon the birth is unable, by diligent inquiry, to obtain any item cr items of information contemplated in Section 14 of this Act, it shall then be the duty of the local registrar to secure from the person so reporting, or from any other person having the required knowledge, such information as will enable him to prepare the certificate of birth herein contemplated, and it shall be the duty of the person reporting the birth or who may be interrogated in relation thereto to answer correctly and to the best of his knowledge all questions put to him by the local registrar which may be calculated to elicit any information needed to make a complete record of the birth as contemplated by said Section 14, and it shall be the duty of the informant as to any statement made in accordance herewith to verify such statement by his signature, when requested so to do by the local registrar. SEC. 14. That the certificate of birth shall contain the following items, which are hereby declared necessary for the legal, social, and sanitary purposes subserved by registration records: 2 (1) Place of birth, including state, county, township or town, village or city. If in a city, the ward, street, and house number; if in a hospital or other institution, the name of the same to be given, instead of the street and house number. (2) Full name of child. If the child dies without a name, before the certificate is filed, enter the words "Died unnamed." If the living child has not yet been named at the date of filing certificate of birth, the space for "full name of child" is to be left blank, to be filled out subsequently by a supplemental report, as hereinafter provided. (3) Sex of child. (4) Whether a twin, triplet, or other plural birth. A separate certificate shall be required for each child in case of plural births. (5) For plural births, number of each child in order of birth. (6) Whether legitimate or illegitimate.3 (7) Date of birth, including the year, month, and day. (8) Full name of father. (9) Residence of father. (10) Color or race of father. 1 A proviso may be added that shall require the registration, or notification, at a shorter interval than ten days, of births that occur in cities. 2 The following items are those of the United States standard certificate of birth, approved by the Bureau of the Census. This question may be omitted if desired, or provision may be made so that the identity of parents will not be disclosed. (11) Age of father at last birthday, in years. (12) Birthplace of father; at least state or foreign country, if known. (13) Occupation of father. The occupation to be reported if engaged in any remunerative employment, with the statement of (a) trade, profession, or particular kind of work; (b) general nature of industry, business, or establishment in which employed (or employer). (14) Maiden name of mother. (15) Residence of mother. (16) Color or race of mother. (17) Age of mother at last birthday, in years. (18) Birthplace of mother; at least state or foreign country, if known. (19) Occupation of mother. The occupation to be reported if engaged in any remunerative employment, with the statement of (a) trade, profession, or particular kind of work; (b) general nature of industry, business, or establishment in which employed (or employer). (20) Number of children born to this mother, including present birth. (21) Number of children of this mother living. (22) The certification of attending physician or midwife as to attendance at birth, including statement of year, month, day (as given in Item 7), and hour of birth, and whether the child was born alive or stillborn. This certification shall be signed by the attending physician or midwife, with date of signature and address; if there is not physician or midwife in attendance, then by the father or mother of the child, householder, owner of the premises, or manager or superintendent of public or private institution where the birth occurred, or other competent person, whose duty it shall be to notify the local registrar of such birth, as required by Section 13 of this Act. (23) Exact date of filing in office of local registrar, attested by his official signature. and registered number of birth, as hereinafter provided. SEC. 15. That when any certificate of birth of a living child is presented without the statement of the given name, then the local registrar shall make out and deliver to the parents of the child a special blank for the supplemental report of the given name of the child, which shall be filled out as directed, and returned to the local registrar as soon as the child shall have been named. SEC. 16. That every physician, midwife, and undertaker shall, without delay, register his or her name, address, and occupation with the local registrar of the district in which he or she resides, or may hereafter establish a residence; and shall thereupon be supplied by the local registrar with a copy of this Act, together with such rules and regulations as may be prepared by the state registrar relative to its enforcement. Within thirty days after the close of each calendar year each local registrar shall make a return to the state registrar of all physicians, midwives, or undertakers who have been registered in his district during the whole or any part of the preceding calendar year: provided, that no fee or other compensation shall be charged by local registrars to physicians, midwives, or undertakers for registering their names under this section or making returns thereof to the state registrar.1 SEC. 17. That all superintendents or managers, or other persons in charge of hospitals, almshouses, lying-in or other institutions, public or private, to which persons resort for treatment of diseases, confinement, or are committed by process of law, shall make a record of all the personal and statistical particulars relative to the inmates in their institutions at the date of approval of this Act, which are required in the forms of the certificates provided for by this Act, as directed by the state registrar; and thereafter such record shall be, by them, made for all future inmates at the time of their admittance. And in case of persons admitted or committed for treatment of 1 This section may be omitted if deemed expedient, and the duty of supplying instructions may be assumed by the state officer. burial or removal permit within ten days with the registrar of the district in which cemetery is located. SEC. 12. That the birth of each and every child born in this state shall be registe as hereinafter provided. SEC. 13.-That within ten days after the date of each birth, there shall be filed v. the local registrar of the district in which the birth occurred a certificate of birth, which certificate shall be upon the form adopted by the State Board of II with a view to procuring a full and accurate report with respect to each item of i mation enumerated in Section 14 of this Act.1 In each case where a physician, midwife, or person acting as midwife, was in att ance upon the birth, it shall be the duty of such physician, midwife, or person a as midwife, to file in accordance herewith the certificate herein contemplated. In each case where there was no physician, midwife, or person acting as midwi attendance upon the birth, it shall be the duty of the father or mother of the chil householder or owner of the premises where the birth occurred, or the mana superintendent of the public or private institution where the birth occurred, e the order named, within ten days after the date of such birth, to report to the registrar the fact of such birth. In such case and in case the physician, midw person acting as midwife, in attendance upon the birth is unable, by diligent in to obtain any item cr items of information contemplated in Section 14 of this shall then be the duty of the local registrar to secure from the person so report from any other person having the required knowledge, such information as will him to prepare the certificate of birth herein contemplated, and it shall be the the person reporting the birth or who may be interrogated in relation thereto to correctly and to the best of his knowledge all questions put to him by the local r which may be calculated to elicit any information needed to make a complete of the birth as contemplated by said Section 14, and it shall be the duty of th mant as to any statement made in accordance herewith to verify such statemen signature, when requested so to do by the local registrar. SEC. 14.-That the certificate of birth shall contain the following items hereby declared necessary for the legal, social, and sanitary purposes. registration records: 2 (1) Place of birth, including state, county, township or town, vi a city, the ward, street, and house number; if in a hospital or name of the same to be given, instead of the street and ho is (2) Full name of child. If the child dies without a n filed, enter the words "Died unnamed." If the livin... at the date of filing certificate of birth, the space for blank, to be filled out subsequently by a supplemer. (3) Sex of child. (4) Whether a twin, triplet, or other plural (9) Residence of father. ( |