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of vita] statistics, in the envelopes furnished for that purpose, the
origin'als of all certificates, permits and records remaining in his posses-
sion on the last day of the month next preceding; provided, that the
state registrar may, in the event of unusual sickness or mortality or
for the purpose of legal or legislative inquiry, require of any local
registrar returns at shorter intervals.

1904, art. 43, sec. 11. 1898, ch. 312, sec. 6E. 1900, ch. 431.

12. No interment of any dead body of any human being or dispo-
sition thereof in any tomb, vault or cemetery shall be made without a
permit, as aforesaid, from the register or sub-register of the district
where said person died, or otherwise than in accordance with such
peimit; the certificate of death shall be signed by the physician last
in attendance upon the deceased person, or by the health officer or
coroner in case of death without medical 'attendance, or of sudden or
violent death. In all cases of death from small-pox, yellow fever, diph-
theria, scarlet fever or other contagious or infectious diseases dangerous
to public health, the certificate of death shall be forwarded immediately,
and interment shall be conducted according to the rules of the State
board of health.

See sec. 41, et seq.

Ibid. sec. 12. 1898, ch. 312, sec. 6F.

13. Application for a permit to disinter a human body shall be
made by the presentation to the local registrar of a certificate of death
properly made and containing the facts required by law for record of
a death. Upon receipt of such certificate the registrar shall issue a
permit for the disinterment. No disinterment of the body of any
deceased person during the months of July and August shall be issued,
except when required for the purpose of a legal investigation; nor shall
any such permit be issued in cases where death was caused by infec-
tious or contagious disease except by permission and under the direc-
tion of the local board of health.

Ibid. sec. 13. 1898, ch. 312, sec. 60.

14. Every midwife who shall have professional charge of the
mother at the birth of any child where no physician is in attendance
shall within the four days next succeeding the birth furnish the regis-
trar or sub-registrar of the town or district wherein such birth shall
have taken place a certificate stating, from the best information which
can be obtained, the name, if such a child has a name, the place and
date of birth, its sex, the name of the father and the maiden name of
the mother, the ages, color, residence and nationality of the parents, the
occupation of the father, number of the child and the name and address
of the attendant.
See sec. 10.