SECTION ARTICLE VI. MORTUARY RECORDS. 1. Burial permit must be procured. 2. Body not to be interred without permit. 3. Reports to be made by sextons, etc. 4. Physicians to make death certificates. SECTION 1. Burial permit must be procured.All undertakers, their agents, employes or other persons having in charge a body for interment, shall before burying said body procure a burial permit, signed by the clerk of the board of health, and shall deliver the same to the sexton, superintendent or person in charge of the cemetery or burial place of said body. Such permit shall state the name, age, sex, color, nativity and place of death, together with the name of the disease of which such person died. [G. O. No. 311, Sec. 1. SEC. 2. Body not to be interred without permit. -No sexton, superintendent or other person in charge of any cemetery or burial place in, adjoining or within two miles of the city of St. Joseph, shall without such burial permit allow or suffer any body to be interred in such cemetery or burial place. [G. O. No. 311, Sec. 2. SEC. 3. Reports to be made by sextons, etc.Every sexton, superintendent or other person in charge of any such cemetery or burial place shall on Saturday of each week, and before the hour of four o'clock p. m., report to said board all interments for that week, and at the same time shall return to the clerk of said board all burial permits for such week. [G. O. No. 311, Sec. 3. SEC. 4. Physicians to make death certificate.The coroner and every physician practicing medicine in this city, when a patient dies under his care, shall make a certificate stating the name, age, sex, color and nationality, together with the disease of which person died, and deliver the same to the person having the body in charge for interment; and if the coroner or any physician shall neglect or refuse to make such certificate and deliver the same to the person in charge of the body for burial, he shall be subject to a fine of not to exceed one hundred dollars. [G. O. No. 311, Sec. 4. SEC. 5. Health officer shall give certificate, when. In the event of there having been no physician attending the person sought to be interred, it shall be the duty of the family or friends of the deceased to apply to the health officer, who is required upon satisfactory evidence to furnish a certificate showing the cause of death, together with the name, age, sex, color and nationality, which shall be delivered to the person having the body in charge for interment. [G. O. No. 311, Sec. 5. SEC. 6. Clerk shall report neglect of sexton or physician. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the board of health to report to the city attorney all sextons, overseers or persons in charge or having control of any cemetery, and physicians who shall fail or neglect to comply with the provisions of the five next preceding sections. [G. O. No. 311, Sec. 6. - SEC. 7. Sexton to keep record. The clerk of the board of health shall furnish each sexton, overseer or person in charge or having control of any cemetery, as aforesaid, with a blank book, with appropriate columns to enter the facts required to be recorded, and blanks whereon to make reports. [G. O. No. 311, Sec. 7. SEC. 8. Penalty. Any person violating, failing, neglecting or refusing to comply with any provision, regulation or requirement relating to the next preceding seven sections, upon conviction before the judge of the police court, shall be fined not to exceed fifty dollars. [G. O. No. 311, Sec. 8. SECTION 1. Record of marriages, births and deaths.-The board of health by its clerk shall keep a record of all marriages, births and deaths in the city, as provided and required by ordinance. [G. O. 304, Sec. 22. SEC. 2. Births shall be reported-penalty.Every physician and midwife shall report within ten days to the board of health, in accordance with blanks to be furnished by said board, every child born within this city; and in case no physician or midwife attended the birth of such child, then the father or mother shall make such report. Any person violating, failing, neglecting or refusing to comply with any provision, regulation or requirement of this ordinance shall upon conviction thereof be fined in a sum not to exceed one hundred dollars. [G. O. No. 309. SEC. 3. Deaths shall be reported-penalty.-The coroner of Buchanan county and every physician shall, when a patient dies under his care within this city, immediately make out and deliver to the clerk of the board of health a certificate stating the name, age, sex, color, nativity and place of death, together with the name of the disease of which said person died. Any person violating, failing, neglecting or refusing to comply with any provision, regulation or requirement of this ordinance shall upon conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not to exceed one hundred dollars. [G. O. No. 310. SECTION 1, General quarantine regulations.-The board of health, by and with the approval of the mayor and common council, may select, purchase, lease and establish such sites, places and boundaries for quarantine stations and purposes, and, with the approval of said mayor and council, may erect from time to time such buildings and hospitals, upon such sites and places, and so keep the same in repair as in their judgment shall be deemed necessary; and the said board, whenever and at such times as by them it shall be deemed necessary, may by proclamation, the approval of the mayor and common council being first had and obtained, require all boats, vessels, railroad cars or other conveyances bound for this city, before the same shall land or stop at any wharf, depot or landing or stopping place therein, to touch or stop at either of the sites, places or boundaries so selected and established for quarantine purposes, and leave all such emigrants, travelers or persons recently from seaboard, and all such sick, diseased or unclean persons, with their stores and baggage, as in the opinion of the officers stationed at such quarantine sites, places or boundaries, shall be deemed proper, on account of the existence or general report of cholera, ship fever or any contagious disease, or disease apprehended to endanger the health of the city; and whenever it shall be deemed necessary to issue the said proclamation, it shall be the duty of the said board to send the same, together with the substance of the regulations for quarantine, and the period for which the same shall be in force, unless sooner revoked, to such cities and places as by them shall be deemed proper; and shall also cause to be stationed at such quarantine sites, places and boundaries, as said board may deem advisable, one or more physicians or health officers, whose duty it shall be to go on board and examine all boats, vessels, cars or other public conveyance required to touch or stop at said quarantines respectively, and then and there determine what emigrants, passengers or persons, if any, shall be permitted to come to the city, and what emigrants, passengers or persons, if any, shall stop at such quarantine; and it shall be the duty of all persons conducting or in charge of any such vessel, boat, car or public conveyance, to aid and assist any physician or health officer, so as aforesaid stationed, in the exercise of his duties; and the said physicians or health officers shall attend to all the sick persons who may be landed or placed in quarantine, and provide medicines and necessaries for their use, and shall have general supervision of such quarantines and compel persons therein to purify their bodies, clothes and baggage, and do all such acts and things as shall be proper in the premises, keeping correct accounts of all expenditures and wages, which shall be allowed and paid by order of said board; and whenever the physician or official in charge of any quarantine station or place, as aforesaid, shall upon examination be satisfied that there is no longer occasion for the detention of any boat, vessel, car or conveyance at such quarantine or place and such boat, vessel, car or conveyance shall have been thoroughly cleansed and such persons, as aforesaid, landed and placed in the care of such physician or officer, such physician or officer shall give such vessel, boat, car or conveyance a permit, signed by him, to enter the city, which shall be ample authority for the entry of said boat, vessel, car or conveyance, and the said officers, respectively, shall discharge all persons in quarantine, by their certificate for that purpose, whenever they are satisfied that such persons are free of disease, and their baggage and effects. properly purified: Provided, however, that the board in their discretion, by proclamation for that purpose, may, during the prevalence of cholera, ship fever or other contagious or fatal |