Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1900-05-10


dollars per month.
This ordinance shall be in force and
erect from aud after its passage and
publication.
Approved, May 8th. 1900.
B. r. GoGGINS, Mayor.
Attest,
MILTON ". MosHER, City Clerk
10 the Honorable, the Members of
the Common Council of the City of
Grand Rapids, Wisconsin.
L would like to call the attention of
the people of Grand Rapids. to the
following laws relating to births and
deaths:
NOTICE AND RETURN OF BIRTHS.
Section 1O25a (R. S.. 1t shall be
the duty of every physician attending
the birth of a child to give the notice
as IN this section provived. and where
no such physician is in attendance,
the midwife shall give such notice, if
Ill attendance, and where no physician
or midwife is i'll attendance, then it
snail be the duty of the parents and
OF every house holder to give notice
OF the birth of any child, occurring in
such household within thirty days
after such birth to the health officer of
the board of health existing in the
city, village or town IN which the
birth occurs, and in case no health
ofhcer exists therein, the said notice
shall be given to the city, village or
town clerk; the keeper of a work
house, house of correction, prison,
hospital or aims house, and the master
or other commanding officer of a ship
shall give like notice of every birth
occurring among the persons under
his charge; said notice shall give the
full name of the child, if it have any,
color, sex, name of other issue living
born of same parents, full name of
mother previous to marriage, hour,
day of week, of month, and year of
birth, the place, town or township or
county in which born, birthplace OF
father and birthplace of mother.
Said notices shall be made on blanks
furnished by the secretary of state,
through register of deeds of each
county, and shall contain at the bot
tom blank for the registry of any
important inform alton not already
recorded, also a space for the health
officers, town or city clerk to certify
that the above is true return of said
birth and of the other facts there
recorded, together with the date
thereof. 1t shall be the duty of the
health officer of every board of health
i'll this state, or in places where no
board Of health exists, the city, town
or village clerk. to collect all of the
births that occur in the city, town or
village in which he is an officer, and
at the end of each month to certify all
such notices of birth as he may have
received or collected, and forward
same to the register of deeds of the
county in which such births occurred.
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH.
Section 1924 (R. S. No person shall
bury, prepare for incarceration or re-
move from the place where death
= occurred any human body until he has
| received permit so to do from the
, health officer or his deputy of the city,
village or town in which said death
occurred, or if there be no health Off
Ger therein, from the city or town
clerk, and no such permit shall be
issued until there has been delivered
: to such health officer or clerk, as the
case may be, a satisfactory certificate
containing the full name of the per-
son deceased, maiden name if wife or
widow, color, sex, race, occupation
age giving years, months and days.
| names and birthplace of father and
mother and birthplace of deceased,
: name of wife or of husband and
5 date of birth Of deceased, condition,
whether single, married or widowed)
date of death, residence at time of
death, primary or secondary cause of
death, place of death, duration of
disease, whether deceased was ever a
| cd p1o Of
ial, name of undertaken or other per-
: son conducting the burial or incinera-
ton, date of certificate, number and
date of burial permit. Said certificate
shall be signed by the physician last
in attendance on deceased, if any
there was, who shall state the pri-
mary and secondary cause of death
according to the best information he
can obt ain, or in case of violence, by
a coroner or justice of the peace. If
there be no attending physician, or if
the certificate of the attending ,phy ST.
clan cannot be obtained for good and
sufficient reasons early enough for the
purpose, any physician employed for
the purpose shall, upon request of the
health officer or clerk, make such GER
tificate as is required of the attending
physician, and in case there is no ply
stefan obtainable early enough for
such purpose, the said certificate shall
be made by justice of the peace.
. PENALTY FOR VIOLATION.
Section 46O9h (W. S. $685. Any
person who shall wilfully violate any
of the provisions of sections 1023a or
1924, or who shall neglect or refuse 10
: make any certificate required by said
sections to be made, or falsely make
: any such certificate. or knowingly
: make any false statement in any such
: certificate, shall be punished by a fine
: of not less than ten dollars nor more
than fifty dollars for each ofense. or
by Imprisonment in the county Jail for
period of not less than thirty nor
more than sixty days or both such fine
: and imprisonment.
offer for your approval the follow
: ing rules pertaining to the prevention
and control of contagious diseases.
t The following diseases are declared
: to be dangerous and contagious, viz:
Asiatic cholera, yellow fever, small
: pox, typhus fever, leprosy, bubonic
plague, diphtheria, (nembranous
: Group, scarlet fever, typhoid fever,
measles, including rotheln and whoop-
) ing cough.
Rule /. No person suffering from
ASiatic cholera fchOleriue), yellow