Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-11-30

Office OF the said Board OF Health Ger
tficate setting forth, as nearly as can be !
ascertained the name, age, sex, nativity, |
color and occupation, whether married !
or single, time OF residence in said city
(and, when nonresident, place OF pre-
vious residence cause and date OF
death, duration OF last illness, and place
and date OF intended interment, which
certificate shall be signed by the physi-
clan or surgeon in attendance at the time
OF death. In case no physician or sur
geon was in attendance, then the GER
tificate shall be signed by the coroner,
and all certificates necessary to complete
a proper death return. whether signed
by physician, surgeon or coroner, shall
be plainly and legibly written in ink.
In case coroner's inquest shall be held,
that tact shall be stated, and the coroner
shall be required to certify the facts to
the Board OF Health. If any such sur
geon or physician refuse to sign such
certificate, the undertaken or other per-
son snail report the same to the Health
Officer, who shall forthwith investigate
the case.
SEC. Is. That no undertaken or any
other person shall use any vehicle other
ing to cemetery the body of any person
dying from cholera, yellow fever. small
pox, scarlet fever, diphthdria or any
other contagious disease; nor shall the
. body of any such person be carried into
church, hall or other public place.
SEC. 49, That no captain, agent or
! person having charge of or attached to
any boat or vessel, nor any person hav-
| nf 81 hn,
other vehicle, or public or private con-
veyance, shall convey or allowed to be
: conveyed thereon or therein, or by any
. means aforesaid, nor shall any person
. convey or allowed to be carried or con
veyed, in any manner, from the City OF
Olympia the dead body of any human
6 being, or any part thereof, without q
. permit therefore from the Board o.
!, Health.
r SEC. 20 That under no circumstances
shall a body having died from smallpox
s scarlet fever, diphtheria, yellow fever
s typhus fever or cholera, remain un
e buried for longer period than twenty
: four hours.
j. Sec. q. That there shall be no publ,
or church funeral of any person who ha
r died OF smallpox, diphtheria, scarle
9 fever, yellow fever, typhus fever or Asia
n tic cholera, but the funeral of such per
j. son shall be private; and it shall not b
= lawful to invite or permit at the funera
If OF any person who has died of any dis
e ease named in this section, or of an,
contagious or pestilential disease, or a
v any services connected Herewith, an
t. person whose attendance is not neces
/. sary, or to or through whom there j
n danger OF contagion thereby; nor shal
% the body of any person dying from con
.e ing vault unless such body is enclose,
il in a zipc-lined or other Theoretically
j sealed metallic case.
IF SEC. -. Any person who shall VIOLATE
any Of the provisions of this Ordinanc
e shall, on conviction thereof, be fined NO
e less than five dollars. nor more than on
IS hundred dollars, for each offense.
n SEC. %. Any refusal of any person t
ls comply with directions of the Board @
Is Health, as by this ordinance provided
n within the time named by said Board G
d Health, or any refusal to comply wit
" the directions of the Health Officer o
il Chief of Police, as by this ordinanc
h provided, shall be deemed misde
meanor, and upon conviction thereof, b
T. punished by fine not exceeding one hun
, dred dollars.
,e Sec. "a That an ordinance entitle
d can ordinance to protect the publ
if from contagious or dangerous diseases,
p approved March %, 1882, be and the sam
le hereby is repealed.
3, Approved Nov. 18th, 1885.
'. A. H. CHAMBERS.
70 Attest: RoBT. MARI, Mayor.
!: City Clerk.