The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-02-01


officer prola pity, any nuisance or ac-
cumulated filth found ia any portion OF
the corporation.
SEC. %: The mayor Shall have au-
thority to appoint sanitary police
whose duty it shall be to aid in the es-
Establishment and enforcement OF quar-
sntine regulations. and such other san
itary regulationslas may be provided
by the local board and the State Board
of Health, and atsuch time, aud III such
manner as the mayor nr the health
officer may direct. Said sanitary Pc
lice shall visit each quarantined prem
ises at least once every forty eight
hours. and at such other times as the
mayor or health officer may direct
He shall see that strict quarantine is
maintained, and the premises pro-
perly placarded. Provided. he shall
not enter any dwelling or place unless
so requested by the occupants thereof.
nor shall be disturb the inmates or the
sick unless he has good and sufficient
reason to believe there is willful viola
tion OF. the quarantine regulations
therein. He shall have full powers
of a police officer tn make arrests
for violations Of quarantine or health
regulations. ard shall file information
against such offenders before the Nav
Or He shall appear for duty at the
office OF the mayor on or before 10
O'Clock a. m. each day. His compensa-
tion shall be the same as that allowed
other police officers.
8 81 III BURIALS.
SEC. 26. Upon the death of any
person within the limits OF this city. it
shall be the duty of the physician who
of the coroner, when the case comes
under his Official jurisdiction. to furnish
within twenty-four hours after such
death, to the undertaken, or other per-
son experimenting the burial of said
decedent, a certificate setting forth the
full name. age, sex. color, place of
death, date and cause OF death, and
sucn other facts as may be required by
regulations of the State Board Of
Health and the statutes of the State of
Iowa. If any person shall die without
the attendance of a physician, or if the
physician who did attend the deeedent
at the time of death, shall neglect or
refuse to give such certificate as afore-
said, it shall be the duty of the under
taker. or of any person acquainted with
the facts. to report the same TO the
health officer of the local board of
health. who is hereby authorized to
give certificate of death as aforesaid:
provided. it be not a case requiring the
attendance of a coroner.
SEC. p. No sexton, or other person
or persons, having charge or control of
any cemetery, burying place, or tomb,
or vault within the limits of this city.
OF under the control of this city: and
70 undertaken. or other person or per-
sons. shall inter, entOmb. or place in
any vault within. the limits of this city
the dead body of any person, or remove
such body from or out of the city with
out having procured a certificate, of
death as herein provided: and it shall
be the duty OF any undertaken, or other
person or persons having charge of the
burial or removal of the dead body of
any person to deliver said certificate of
death forthwith to the clerk of the
local board of health.
SEC. %. 1t shall be the duty of the
clerk of the local board of health upon
the presentation of certificate of
death IN accordance with the provisions
of this ordinance. and not otherwise. to
issue permit to inter, entomb, or
place in a vault the body of the deceas-
ed person named in such certificate, and
said clerk shall be entitled to charge
and receive for issuing such permit a
fee of twenty-five cents Provided, a
body dead from diphtheriat( membrane
Gus Group, scarlet fever (scarlatina,
scarlet rash J, smallpox, Asiatic cholera,
leprosy or typhus fever shall not be de-
posted in a receiving vault.
SEC. 30. Upon the presentation of
the proper application in accordance
with the regulations made by the State
Board of Health for the removal of the
dead body of human being out of the
limits OF this city, it shall be the duty
Of the clerk of the local board of health
mayor for such removal. Provided,
that where said body is to be disinterr-
ed such application must be accom-
panied with dislnterment permit from
the State Board of Health but no per-
nit for such removal, shall be granted
in any case Of a body dead from Asia
tic cholera, smallpox, leprosy, typhus
fever, Or yellow fever, or from any
sequela or complications Of said dis
eases: nor shall any permit for such
removal be granted in any case what
.soever where the cause of death was a
contagious or infectious disease. or any
sequela of such disease unless the per-
nit be approved and signed by the
health officer of the local board of
health, nor shall a permit be granted
except upon the presentation of the
proper certificate of the cause of
death.
SEC. 30. The clerk of the, local
board of health shall enter in suit
able book to be kept for that purpose. a
record of allburial permits issued, speci-
flying the date OF issue, to whom issued,
together with all the items of informa-
tion contained in the certificate upon
which the permit was issued. And on
or before the tenth day of each month
he shall report to the State Board of
Health the deaths and causes thereof
forthe preceding calendar month.
SEC, 81. No hack, omnibus, street
car, or other closed vehicle used for
the conveyance OF the living shall be