1552 ARTICLE 43.

'State Registrar. Upon receipt of such an application properly made out, the
local registrar, or deputy local registrar, shall issue a permit for the disin-
terment. The permit for a disinterment shall be'made upon a form pre-
scribed by the State Registrar of Vital Statistics under the provisions of
this sub-title.

No disinterment permit shall be issued in any case where death was
caused by infectious disease within one year, except by permission of and
under the direction of the State Registrar of Vital Statistics.

An. Code, sec. 14. 1904, sec. 13. 1898, ch. 312, sec. 6G. 1912, ch. 696, sec. 13.

1920, ch. 317, sec. 14.

23. Every physician, who shall have professional charge of the mother
at the birth of any child, shall, within four days next succeeding the birth,
file with the local registrar or deputy local registrar of the registration
district wherein such birth shall have taken place, a proper and correct
certificate of birth as required by Section 19 of this Article.

Every midwife, who shall be in attendance at the birth of any, child
where no physician is in attendance shall within four days next succeeding
the birth, file with the local registrar or deputy local registrar of the regis-
tration district wherein such birth shall have taken place, a proper and
correct certificate of birth as required by Section 19 of this Article.

See sec. 19 and notes to sec. 21.

An. Code, sec. 15. 1904, sec. 14. 1898, ch. 312, sec. 6H. 1912, ch. 696, sec 14
1914, ch. 747, sec. 14. 1920, ch. 317, sec. 15.

24. In the event of the birth of any child without the attendance of
either a physician or midwife it shall be the duty of the father, coroner,
householder, keeper of any workhouse, house of correction, prison, hos-
pital, reformatory, almshouse, or other institution, master or other com-
manding officer of a ship or vessel and the conductor of any railroad train
to report in writing, within four days next succeeding the birth, to the local
registrar or deputy local registrar of the registration district wherein such
birth occurs, the full name of the mother, the full name of the father, if it
can be ascertained, date, hour and place of birth, and the sex and color of
the child, and it shall be the duty of the local registrar or deputy local
registrar to whom such report is presented to immediately investigate the
same and to execute and send a proper and correct certificate of birth as
provided by Section 19 of this Article.

And all physicians, midwives, informants of undertakers, 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, or by representative, by mail or
through the local registrar.

In the event of an alteration of any certificate of birth or death the facts
shall be properly certified to the State Registrar and entered in red ink over
his signature.