Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1906-01-03
Fine Address Is Given By a Prescott
 Undertaken
Urges Passage of New Legislation In
 Territory
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 At Che socond annual meeting of tho Arizona Funeral DirectorB' associa. ton, held yesterday at Phoenix, IT. N. Maus of Prescott was reelected pre-. sidcutu J P. Whitney vico.prcaidcnt, J. r. Driscon secretary, and A. l.. Moore treasurer.
 Tho association met at niuo o'clock yesterday morning, and later adjourn. cd until 9 o'clock in Che afternoon. The address of President Maus was we'll received. Ilo spoke in part as follows.
 ln thia the second annual meeting of 'ho Arizona Funeral Directors naso. citation, 1 congratulate you ou Che or. ganila,ion you havo effected, and the progrcsa you have made as an associa- tion iu thc brief period of your exist once.
 While the funeral directors of Arz. oua have been tardy in pcrfccting an organization, it Is gratifying that we have at last awakened to the import. anco of m organized cifor, for the bet. torment of our profession, and an awakening in the public miud of the ancrednosg and responsibility of the funeral dircctore
 The importance of the enactment of laws governing the care and shipment Of Che dead, and n knowledge Of the essential sanitary conditions noeded for the hcalthful protection of hu. manity. TO this end it behooyes ms Go urge legislation for the protection ot ourselves. as well as the communi. ties iu which we are engaged Tho public hcai.a denpHds it, The phy. aicinr and the drugRist are required io meet certain requirements as toI ihoir fitness, yet thc funeral director. tho most important of an. escapes rc. cognition under our territorial laws, and the commonly accepted term. un. dertaker is an that is required on certificate ibe, thc remains have been properly prepared ctc, lthat is ifl they are shipped),
 If the funeral director or uudedas er knows nothing of Che prevention of disease tho public mny suffer, md yet never b, shlo fo trace its uffe,inq 10 .bc lguomUl undertaken ot funeral director gh0 caused '
 itttis a contngious disease, the fus. afal difoctdr has moro to consider than tac prtparo ion of b. body for burial hr enters trine infected. handles 10 ,ceicd eioihing, and an infected body, and he car'ica unless properly protect. r'i through h.t instruments and cloth. ns iiseas' hat may be far reaehing in i's resui unless necdful p,rcmu. tionsf a. .Jsures .re exercised, snd it 's ihurefot st th, utmost importance iha' he 'paeral director should .. not only a sau'tarian, but ho should DOS ssss suci 'nowle,lge as Ga .nabl, him SO iptcliigently take such precsntipn. n mcasafos as ,h. exigency of the n"raslou equires, and ii is necessary iha' hr -hpulo have some Knowledge of ih" ~ase pi communicable disease. and the yermicidaI agents that win de s'roy ,b, cause, and this is one of the ways thht the standard of our profcs. aipo eaI oc elevated but this can only hc brought ahou' and regulated by proper i.gislation and ,t Is the duty ct The fuacral directors of the ,rrritory ' impress apop oar legislator. thc 'mi'"ria"et oi the enactment af jaws looking 'u this end, md | would there. i"'o urs' hat an effort b, made to 5. '"fs the o'operation of every funeral nlS"ttor in the territory through the 'rgnnizatioE you have effected, urging upo" hin thc importance of an organia r'' seort for The ppbuilding of onr ehoscn profession
 am rieaseu to rcpor, that our or gnnizatios has been recognized by the Naiional Funeral Directors assoeia. tion of which we are now member. and at which recent meeting at Mia gafa Falls, x y, we were represent. | ed and tho importance of the Arix. ona association signalized by the ap. po'n'ment to the chairmanship of one of tho most important committee as. ''gnments of the convention, that of he transportation of the dead from Msyics.