CONCERNING THE REGISTRATION OF

DEATHS.

EXTRACTS FROM REGISTRATION LAW

(CONDENSED).

Chapter CXIX, Statutes of California, 1905, superseding Political Code, Section 3084 (repealed).

Sec. 4. The body or remains of no person whose death occurs in the State shall be interred, deposited in a vault, grave or tomb, cremated, disinterred or otherwise disposed of, or removed from or into any registration district until a permit for burial, disinterment or removal shall have been properly issued by the registrar of the registration district in which the death occurs. And no such burial or removal permit shall be issued by any registrar until a complete and satisfactory certificate of death has been filed with him.

Secs. 6 and 7. The medical certificate shall be made and signed by the physician, if any, last in attendance on the deceased (or by the coroner to whom the case may be referred by the local registrar). The physician (or coroner) shall state the cause of death so as to show the course of disease or sequence of causes resulting in death, giving the primary and immediate causes, and contributing causes, if any, and the duration of each. Indefinite and unsatisfactory terms indicating only symptoms of disease or conditions resulting from disease will not be held sufficient for issuing a burial or removal permit, and any certificate containing only such terms, as defined by the State Registrar, shall be returned to the physician (or