ART. 43] BIRiTHS AND DEATHS. 1201

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.

1898, ch. 312, sec. 6 E. 1900, ch. 431.

11. No interment of any dead body of any human being or
disposition 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 permit; the certificate of death
shall be signed by the physician last in attendance upon the
decased 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,
diphtheria, scarlet fever or other contagious or infectious dis-
eases 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.

1898, ch 312, sec. 6 F.

12. Application for a permit to disinter a human body shall
be made by the presentation to the local registrar of a certifi-
mate of death properly made and containing the facts required
by law for record of a death. Upon recept 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 infectious or contagious disease except by permission and
under the direction of the local board of health.

Ibid. sec. 6 G.

13. Every mid-wife 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 registrar 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 occu-
pation of the father, number of the child and the name and
address of the attendant.