Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-09-02
Manner of Recording Births
and Deaths Made Plain.
PUBLISHED IN DETAIL
Changes in Statute of Interest to All.
General Inquiry Regarding
Its Provisions.


in receipt of so many inquiries con-
corning the new law pertaining to
the registration Of births and deaths
that he deems it advisable to pub
lish the same, and it appears in full
below:
No 252 Al Published May %, 1908.
CHAPTER AS
AN ACT to amend section 1O23a. as amend
ed by chapter $50 of the laws Of 1899 and
1024b, Of the statutes of 1898, relating
to the return and registration of births
and deaths.
The people of the State of Wisconsin.
represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
Section l. Section 1023a, of the statutes
of 1898, as amended by chapter $50 of the
laws of 1899 is hereby amended so that
said section shall read as follows: 1t shall
be the duty of every physician attending
the birth of a child to give notice as in
this section provided and where no ply
Sician midwife is in attendance then it
shall be the duty of parent and of every
householder to give notice of the birth of
any child occurring in such household with
in thirty days after such birth, to the
health officer of the board of health EXIST
ing in the city in which the birth occurs,
and in case no health officer exists therein,
the said notice shall be given to the city
clerk; in towns and villages the said notice
shall be given to the village or town clerk
as the case may be. The keeper of a work.
house, house of correction, a prison. hos
pital or almShouSe, and the master or other
commanding officer of 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 any other issue
iuin hnp off, nfc full Of
mother previous to marriage, hour day Of
week, or month and year Of birth, place,
town or township or county in which born,
birthplace of father and birthplace of nloth-
err Said notice shall be made on blanks
furnished by the secretary of state through
the register of deeds of each county and
shall contain at the bottom blank for the
registry Of any important information not
already reported and also space for the
health officer, town or village clerk to GER
tify 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 in the cities of the ST ate and in
towns and villages, of the town and village
clerk to collect all of the births that occur
! in the town or village in which he is an Of
ficer. and at the end Of each month to GER
tfy all such notices of birth as he may
have received or collected and forward the
same to the register Of deeds OF the county
in which said births occurred.
Section 2. Section 1924 is thereby amended
SO that when amended it shall read: No
person shall bury, prepare for incineration
| or remove from place where death occurs,
any human body until he has received a
permit to do so from the health officer, if
the death occurs in city or from the viii
lage or town clerk, 1t the death occurs in a
village or town, and no permit shall be is
sued until there has been delivered to such
health officer or clerk as the case may be
satisfactory certificate containing the full
name of the person deceased, maiden name
if wife or widow color, sex, race, occupa-
ton, age, giving years. months and dayS)
names aud birthplace of father and mother
and birthplace of deceased, name OF wife,
or Of husband and date of birth of de-
ceased, condition whether single married
or WidOWed) and date OF death, residence
at time of death, primary and secondary
cause of death, duration of disease, whether
deceased was ever federal soldier or sail
or. place of burial, name Of undertaken or
other person conducting the burial or in
cineratiOn, date of certificate, number and
date of burial permit Said certificate shall
be signed by the physician last in attend
ance en- deceased, If any there was, who
shall state the primary and secondary cause
of death according to the best information
he can obtain, or in any case OF violence,
by coroner or a justice OF the peace. If
UnSro DC no dUbcuulHB puJolCldL' VI IL OhO
certificate of the attending physician can
not be obtained for good and sufficient rea-
sons early enough for the purpose, amy
nhysician employed for the purpose shall
upon request Of the health officer or clerk,
make such certificate as is required or the
attending physician, and in case there is
no physician obtainable early enough for
such purpose, the said certlhcate snail De
made by a Justice Of the peace.
Section g. Section 1024b, of the statutes
Of 1885, is hereby amended, so that when
amended it shall read: In cities every
physician and coroner or justice or the
peace, who shall comply with the foregoing
provisions shall receive for each certlhcaJe
returned to the register of deeds and certi-
fed to as provided for, twenty-five cents.
and every health Office or clerk, who col
lects and transmits to the register of deeds
of any county and birth or death as herein
provided, shall receive for each certificate
so returned and certified fifteen cents; the
said fees to be audited and paid out OF the
county treasury on al iteIoized account in
accordance with the provisions of section
1926; but no duplicates shall be counted in
committing such fees. And in towns ana
villages every parent, householder, physl-
clan and coroner or justice of the peace
who shall comply with the foregoing provis-
ions shall receive for each certlhcate re-
turns to the register Of deeds fifty cents
and for each certificate returned TO the VII
lage or (town clerk and certlhed 10 as pro-
vided for, twenty-five cents and every vii
lage or town clerk who collects and trans
mits to the register of deeds OF any county
any birth or death, as herein provided shall
receive for each certificate, fifteen cents.
The said fees to be audited and paid out
| of the county treasury on an 1temlzed &C
connt in accordance with the provisions
of section 1926, but no duplicates shall be
counted in computing such fees
Section 4. This act shall take erect ana
be in force from and after its passage ana
publication.
| Approved May 90 1903