10 HEALTH BULLETIN them, over the signature and address of the 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 Rule 9. He shall then state the facts required relative to the date and place of burial, over his signature and with his address, and present the completed certificate to the local registrar, who shall then issue a permit for burial, removal or other disposition of the body. The undertaker shall deliver the burial permit to the sexton or other person in charge of the place of burial before interring or otherwise disposing of the body; or shall attach the transit permit to the box containing the corpse, when the same is to be shipped by any transportation company, and, if the same be within the State of Mississippi, it shall be delivered to the local registrar at the destination stated in the transit permit. RULE 15. If the interment, or other disposition of the body is to be made within the State, the wording of the burial 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 otherwise dispose of the deceased; stating the name, color, age, sex, cause of death, and other necessary details upon the form prescribed by the State Registrar. RULE 16. No sexton or person in charge of any premises in 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 each sexton, or person in charge of any burial ground, shall endorse upon the burial or removal permit the date of interment, over his signature, and shall return all permits so endorsed to the local registrar of his district within ten days from the date of the interment. He shall keep a record of all interments made in the premises under his charge, stating the name of the deceased person, place of death, cause of death, date of burial, and the name and address of the undertaker; which record shall at all times be open to public inspection. RULE 17. Undertakers, or persons acting as such when burying a body in a cemetery or burial ground having no sexton or person in charge shall sign the burial or removal permit as sexton, giving the date of burial, and shall write across the face of the permit the words, "No sexton in charge," and file the burial or removal permit within ten days with the registrar of the district in which the cemetery is located. HEALTH BULLETIN RULE 18. 11 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 and place of death of the deceased. This record to 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, no person, firm or corporation selling caskets only to dealers or undertakers 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. RULE 19. Every person, firm or corporation selling a casket at retail, and not having charge of the disposition of the body shall enclose within the casket a notice furnished by the State Registrar calling the attention of the purchaser to the requirements of the law, and the rules and regulations of the State Board of Health concerning the burial or other disposition of a dead body. RULE 20. All births that occur in the State shall be immediately registered in the registration districts in which they occur, as hereinafter provided. RULE 21. It shall be the duty of the attending physician or midwife to file a certificate of birth, properly and completely filled out, giving all of the particulars required by this Act, with the local registrar of the district in which the birth occurred, within ten days after the date of birth. And if there be no attending physician or midwife, then it shall be the duty of the father or mother of the child, householder or owner of the premises, manager or superintendent of public or private institutions in which the birth occurred, to notify the local registrar, within ten days after the birth, of the fact of such birth having occurred. It shall then, in such case, be the duty of the local registrar to secure the necessary information and signature to make a proper certificate of birth. RULE 22. The certificate of birth shall contain the following items: (1) Place of birth; including state, county, election precinct, village, town 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 or 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 been named at the date of filing cer 12 HEALTH BULLETIN tificate 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 a case of plural birth, giving number of child in order of birth. date. (5) Whether legitimate or illegitimate. (6) Date of birth, including statement of year, month and (7) (8) Full name of father, except for illegitimate children. (9) Color or race of father. (10) Age of father at last birthday, in years. (11) Birthplace of father; state or foreign country. (12) Occupation of father. (13) Full maiden name of mother. (14) Residence of mother. (15) Color or race of mother. (16) Age of mother at last birthday, in years. (17) Birthplace of mother; state or foreign country. (19) Number of child of this mother. (20) Number of children of this mother now living. (21) Certificate of attending physician, midwife, parent, or informant as to attendance at birth, including statement of the hour of birth, and whether the child was alive or dead at birth. This certificate shall be signed by the attending physician or midwife, with date of signature and address; if there is no physician or midwife in attendance, then the father or mother of the child, householder or owner of the premises, or manager or superintendent of public or private institution, or other competent person, whose duty it shall be to notify the local registrar of such birth as required by Rule 21. (22) Exact date of filing in office of local registrar, attested by his official signature, and registered number of birth as hereinafter provided. All certificates of birth or death, shall be written legibly, in unfading ink; and no certificate shall be complete and correet that does not supply all of the items of information called for therein, or satisfactorily account for their omission. RULE 23. 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 parent 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. HEALTH BULLETIN RULE 24. 13 Every physician, midwife, undertaker and retail dealer in caskets, 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, undertakers and retail casket dealers 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, undertakers, or casket dealers for registering their names under this section, or making returns thereof to the State Registrar. RULE 25. 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, confinements, or are committed by process of law, are hereby required to make a record of all the personal and statistical particulars relative to the inmates in their institutions at the date this law goes into effect, that are required in the forms of the certificates provided for by the Rules and Regulations, and as directed by the State Registrar; and thereafter such record shall be, by them, made for all future inmates at the time of their admission. And in case of persons admitted or committed for medical treatment of disease, the physician in charge shall specify for entry in the record, the nature of the disease, and where, in his opinion, it was contracted. The personal particulars and information required by this section shall be obtained from the individual himself if it is practicable to do so; and when they can not be so obtained, they shall be secured in as complete a manner as possible from relatives, friends, or other persons acquainted with the facts. RULE 26. The State Registrar shall prepare, print and supply all registrars all blanks and forms used in registering, recording and preserving the returns, or in otherwise carrying out the purposes of this Act; and shall prepare and issue such detailed instructions as may be required to secure the uniform observance of its provisions and maintenance of a perfect system of registration. And no other blanks shall be used than those supplied by the State Registrar. He shall carefully examine the certificates received monthly from local registrars, and if any such are incomplete or unsatisfactory he shall require such further information to be furnished as may be necessary to 14 HEALTH BULLETIN make the record complete and satisfactory. And all physicians, midwives, informants, or undertakers, connected with any case, and all other persons having knowledge of the facts, are hereby required to furnish such information as they may possess regarding any birth or death, upon demand of the State Registrar in person, by mail, or through the local registrar. He shall furnish, arrange, bind, and permanently preserve the certificates in a systematic manner, and shall prepare and maintain a comprehensive and continuous card-index of all births and deaths registered; the cards to show the name of child or deceased, place and date of birth or death, number of certificate, and the volume in which it is contained. He shall inform all registrars what diseases are to be considered as infectious, contagious or communicable and dangerous to the public health, as decided by the State Board of Health, in order that, when deaths occur from such diseases, proper precautions may be taken to prevent the spreading of dangerous diseases. RULE 27. It shall be the duty of the local registrar to supply blank forms of certificates to such persons as require them. And he shall carefully examine each certificate of birth or death, when presented for record, to see that it has been made out in accordance with the provisions of this act, and the instructions of the State Registrar; and if any certificate of death is incomplete or unsatisfactory, it shall be his duty to call attention to the defects in the return, and to withhold issuing the burial or removal permit until they are corrected. If the certificate of death is properly executed, and complete, he shall then issue a burial or removal permit to the undertaker; provided, that in case the death occurs from some disease that is held by the State Board of Health to be infectious, contagious, or communicable, and dangerous to public health, no permit for the removal or other disposition of the body shall be granted by the registrar, except under such conditions as may be prescribed by the State Board of Health. If a certificate of birth is incomplete, he shall immediately notify the informant, and require him to supply the missing items, if they can be obtained. He shall then number consecutively the certificates of birth and death in two separate series, beginning with "number one" for the first death in each calendar year, and sign his name as registrar in attest of the date of filing in his office. He shall also make a complete and accurate copy of each birth and death certificate registered by him, upon a form identical with the original certificate, to be filed and permanently preserved in his office as the local record of such birth and death, in such manner as directed by the State Registrar. And he shall, on the tenth day of each month, transmit to the State Registrar all original certificates of birth and death reg |