The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-08-23

diseases that are not contagious, infe2-
tious or communicable, may be re-
ceived for transportation when encased
in a sound coffin or caSket and enclosed
in a strong outside wooden box, pro-
vided they reach their destination with
| in 80 hours from time of death. If the
| body cannot reach its destination with
| in so hours, from time of death, it must
| be prepared for shipment by filling
cavities with an approved disinfectant,
washing the exterior of the body with
the same, stopping all orifices with alb
sorbent cotton and enveloping the en-
tire body with layer of cotton not less
than one inch thick, and all wrapped
in sheet and bandaged, and encased
in an alright coffin or casket; but
when the body has been prepared for
shipment by being thoroughly disin-
fected, as in rule 2, by an embalmer
holding a certificate from the state
board of health, the air. tight sealing
may be dispensed with.
Rule 5-In cases of contagious. infec-
tious or communicable diseases. the
body must not be accompanied by per-
sons or articles which have been ex-
posed to- the infection of the disease.
unless certified by health officer as
having been properly disinfected; and
before selling passage, ticket agents
permit and note the name of the pas
senger in charge, and of any others
proposing to accompany the body, and
see that all necessary precautions have
been taken to prevent the spread of
disease. The transit permit in such
cases shall specifically state who is au-
thorized by the health authorities to
accompany the remains. In all cases
where bodies are forwarded under rule
3 notice must be sent by telegraph to
the health officer a destination advising
the date and train on which the body
may be expected. This notice must be
sent by or in the name of the health
officer at the initial point, and is to
enable the health officer at destna-
ton to take all necessary precautions a
that point.
Rule 6-Every dead body must be ac-
companied by a person in charge, who
must be provided with ticket, and
also present a full first-cass ticket
marked corpse" for the transporta-
ton of the body, and a transit permit,
showing physicians or coroner's GER
tificate health officers permit for re-
moval, undertaker's certificate, name
of deceased. date and hour of death,
age. place of DEATH cause of death, and
| if of a contagious infectious or commu-
nicable nature, the point to which the
body is to be shipped, and when death
fed in rule 2, the names of those au-
| thorized by the health authorities to
accompany the body. The transit per-
nit must be made in duplicate, and the
signatures of the physician or coroner
health officer and undertaken. must be
on both the original and duplicate
copies The undertaker's certificate
and paster of the original shall be de-
| tached from the transit permit and
| pasted on the coffin box. The ply
! sicians certificate and transit permit
| shall be handed to the passenger The
| whole duplicate copy shall be sent 10
the official in charge of The baggage
| department of the initial line, and by
him to the secretary of the state or
provincial board of health of tha state
or province from which said shipment
was made.
| Rule when dead bodies are shipped
| by express the whole original transit
permit shall be placed upon the out
side of the box and the duplicate for
warded by the express agent to the sec
| rotary of the state or provincial board
| of health of the state or province from
which said shipment was made.
Rule S-Every disinterred body dead
| from any disease or cause, shall b.
| treated as infectious or dangerous to
| the public health, and must not be ac-
cepted for transportation unless said
| removal mas peen approved Dy the
state or provincial health authorities
having Jurisdiction where such body is
| to be disinterred. and the consent of
the health authorities of the locality to
which the corpse is consigned has been
OBJ tanned. and such disinterred remains
/ must be enclosed in a Theoretically
sealed (solderedD zinc, tin or copper
| lined coffin or box.
Bodies deposited in receiving vaults
will be treated and considered the same
| as buried bodies