The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-02-01
ANOTHER MEASURE.
Design to Give the Bodies of Paup-
ers to Physicians.


The following bill will probably be
presented in a few days:
A Bill for an Act to Promote the Science
of Medicine and Surgery in the Terri
tory of Utah.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gov
ernor and Legislative assembly of the
territory of Utah: That superintend-
ents of houses of correction, wardens
of hospitals, insane asylums and poor
houses, coroners, sheriffs, jailors, city
and county undertakers, and all other
territorial, county and city officers in
whose custody shall be the body Of any
deceased person required to be buried
at public expense shall give permission
to the board of medical examiners
the territory of Utah or any phrric:an
or surgeon of said board may appoint
for that purpose upon its or his request
therefor, to receive and remove free
of charge or expense (after h1N ing Civ
en- proper notice to relatives, frienos or
guardians of the decaased) the bodies
OF such deceased person 10 be buried
at public expense, to be by SID b-ard.
physician or surgeon Isei within the
territory of Utah, for the advance nent
of medical science; pr0viIe1, however.
that any person claiming to be and sat.
isfying the proper authorities ;ha: he
is of kindred of the deceased or as a
friend shall ask to have the Body for
burial, it shall be surrendered to such
person for that 2I>p)se.
Section 2. All bodies which may be
delivered to said DO ir1 or such rhy-
sician or surgeon as it may appoint 20
receive the same, shall be equitabIy
distributed by said board and such
physician or surgeon as it may
appoint to receive the same. among
the physicians and surgeons w.is aoply
for the same of the town, city or c, unity
where in such body Or bodies shall he.
Section 8. It shall be the duty Of
said board within --- DAYS after the
passage of this act to appoint in each
town, city and county, within the ter
Tftory some respectable physician or
surgeon residing in such town, city or
county, who shall apply eor and receive
such body or bodies Under the provis-
ions of this act, upon the written re-
quest of any physician or surgeon who
may apply to him for the same.
Sec. 5. The said board or any physi-
stefan or surgeon as it may appoint
under the provisions of this act to APP
ply for or receive such body or bodies
shall require any physician or surgeon
to whom such body or bodies may be
delivered by it or him for dissection.
before receiving the same, to make a
deposit of money with the treasurer of
said board, or with the physician or
surgeon appointed by it to apply for
and receive such dead body or bodies
sufficient TO properly cremate or bury
the remains of such body or bodies
after they shall have answered the
purpose of study aforesaid
Sec. 5. Thes aid board or any physi-
clan or surgeon appointed by it for
that purpose, before receiving any dead
body or bodies under the provisions of
this act, shall give to the parties
surrendering the same to it or him a
sufficient bond that said body or bodies
shall be used only for the promotion
of medical science within this territory.
And whoever shall use said BODY or
bodies for any other purpose or shall
sell or buy any such body or bodies. or
shall traffic in the same. shall be
guilty of misdemeanor and shall. on.
conviction. be fined in a sum of not
less than 500 and be imprisoned in the
county jail for term of not less than
thirty days, nor more than six months:
the fine accruing from such conviction