The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-02-01

At the regular quarterly meeting of the
Kansas State Board of Health. held Janu-
airy S0th, 1912, the following rules and reg
ulations were unanimously adopted, in
accordance with the provisions of section
], for the enforcement of chapter 296
Laws of 1911, entitled, AN act to provide
births and deaths throughout the state
of Kansas etc
REGULATION 21. It shall be the duty
or the local registrar to supply blank
forms of certificates to such persons as
require them, and he shall carefully ex-
anime each certificate of birth or death
when presented for record to see that ii
has been made out in accordance with
the provisions of this Act and the rules
and regulations of the State Board of
Health; and If any certificate of death
is incomplete or unsat satisfactory it shall
be his duty to call attention to the de-
fects In the return, and to withhold issu-
Ing the burial or removal permit until
they are corrected. If the certificate OF
death is properly executed and complete
he shall then issue a burial or removal
permit to the undertaken; provided, that
in case the death occurred from some dis
ease that is~held by the State Board of
Health to be communicable and dangerous
to the public health. permit for the
removal or other disposition of the body
shall be granted by the registrar except
under such conditions as may be pre-
scribed by the State Board of Health.
If a certificate of birth is incomplete he
shall Immediately notify the informant,
require him to supply the missing items.
number consecutively the certificates of
births and deaths in two separate series,
beginning with number "one' for the first
birth and the first death in each calendar
year, and sign his name as registrar in
attest of the date of filing in his office.
He shall also make a record of each birth
and death registered by him. in such
manner as directed by the state regis
trar. And he shall, on the fifth day of
each month, transmit to the state regis
trar all original certificates registered by
him during the preceding month. And II
no births deaths occurred in any
month, he shall, on the fifth day of the
following month, report that fact to the
state registrar on card for this pur
pose.
RESOLUTION %. Local registrars are
required to report to the county health
officer or in cities of the first class to
the city health officer, the name and adj
dress, and name of doctor in charge, of
any person where the death certificate
shows them to have died of cholera, small
pox, diphtheria, epidemic, cerebro spinal
meningitis. tuberculosis, typhoid fever,
acute anterior poliomyelitis, scarlet fever,
ton thereto. to notify the undertaken that
public funerals are prohibited in case OF
death from any of the foregoing diseases,
in accordance with Regulation 13 of the
State Board of Health.
In addition to the above, health Off
GERS should be notified of deaths from
erysicelas and puerperal Cor child-bed)
fever for purposes Of disinfection
THIS IS TO CERTIFY That these reg
ulations were unanimously approved and
adopted by the State Board OF Health
at the regular quarterly meeting held
January 30th, 1912.
S. J. CRUMBINE. NJ. D., Secretary.