Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-01-25
LAW OFINTEREsT 1870
49, 10 CLUB WOMEN
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required to keep such record, nor
shall such report be required from
undertakers when they have direct
charge of the disposition of q dead
body. ~.
Every person, firm, or corporation
selling a casket at retail, and not hav-
/, ing charge of the disposition of the
body, shall inclose within the casket
notice furnished by the state regis
trar calling attention to the require
ments of the law, blank certificate
of death, and the rules and regula-
tons of the State Board of Health
concerning the burial or other dispos-
ition of a dead body.
Sec. 10.-That If the interment, or
other disposition of the body is to be
made within the state, the wording of
the burial or removal permit may be
limited to statement by the regis
trar, and over his signature, that a
satisfactory certificate of death hav-
ing been filed with him ,as required
Z by law, permission Is granted to inter
remove, or dispose otherwise of the
body, stating the name, age, sex,
cause Of death, and other necessary
details upon the form prescribed by
the state registrar.
Sec. 11.-That no person in charge
of any premises on which interments
are made shall inter or permit the
interment or other disposition of any
body unless it is accompanied by a
burial, removal or transit permit, as
herein provided. And such person
shall indOrse upon the permit the
date of interment, over his signature,
and shall return all permits so indor-
sed to the local registrar Of his dis
trict within ten days from the date of
interment, or within the time fixed by
the local board of health. He shall
keep record of all bodies inferred or
otherwise disposed of on the premises
under his charge, in each case stating
the name of each deceased person,
place of death, date of burial or dis
posal, and name and address of the
undertaken; which record shall at all
times be open to official inspection;
provided, that the undertaken or per-
son acting as such, when burying a
body In a cemetery or burial ground
having no person in charge, shall sign
the burial or removal permit, giving
the date Of burial. and shall write
across the face of the permit the
words No person in charge" and
file the burial or removal permit
with ten days with the registrar of
the district in which the cemetery is
located.
Sec. 12.-eThat the birth of each
and every child born in this state
shall be registered as hereinafter pro-
vided.
Sec. 13.-That within ten days af-
ter the date of each birth, there shall
be filed with the local registrar of the
district in which the birth occurred a
certificate OF such birth, which certi-
ficate shall be upon sne form adopted
by the State Board of Health with a
view to procuring full and accurate
report with respect to each item of in
formation enumerated in section IA
of this Act.
In each case where physician mid
wife, or person acting as midwife.
was in attendance upon the birth. il
shall be the duty of such physician.
midwife, or person acting as midwife,
to file in accordance herewith the GER
tificate herein contemplated.
In each case where there was no
physician, midwife, or person acting
as midwife. in attendance upon the
birth, 1t shall be the duty OF the faith
er or mother of the child, the house.
holder or owner ofthe premises where
the birth occurred, or the manager
or superintendent OF the public or
private institution where the birth oc-
Cured, each In the order named.
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birth, to report to the local registrar
the fact of such birth. In such case
and in case the physician, midwife. or
person acting as midwife, in attend
ance upon the birth is unable. by dill
igent INQUIRY, to obtain any item or
items or information contemplated in
section IA OF this Act, it shall be the
duty OF the local registrar to secure
from the person so reporting, or
from any other person having the re-
CURED knowledge. such information
as Will enable him to prepare the GER
tlhcate or birth herein contemplated,
and 1t shall be the duty of the person
reporting the birth or whomay be in
terrogated In relation thereto to ans
wer correctly and to the best Of his
knowledge all questions put to him
by the local registrar which may be
calculated to elicit any information
needed to make a complete record of
the birth as contemplated by said sec
ton IA. and it shall be the duty of
the informant as to any. statement
made IN accordance herewith to verify
such statement by his signature, when
requested so to do by the local regis
trar.
Sec. 14.-That the certificate of
birth shall contain the following
items, which are hereby declared nee
essary for the legal, social, and SAM