The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-08
USE OF YELLOW SHIPPING FASTER.

BODIES IN THE STATE OF KANSAS.
USE OF YELLOW SHIPPING FASTER.
ETC.
Rule 1. Yellow pastors used for the
transportation of dead human bodies, must
contain Registrars Removal Permit Lii
censed Embalmer's Certificates Nos. and
2, Railway, Express and Public or Private
Conveyance Transit Form. Faster must
be approved by the Kansas State Board of
Health Said Pastors to be furnished by
the State Board of Embalming of the State
of Kansas, and issued only to embalmers
holding valid license from said Board.
The embalmer who prepares body for
cemeteriesl. must fill out Licensed EN-
balmers Certificates Nos. 1 and 2. also
secure Registrars Removal Permit. all
properly filled out and signed. Said en-
balIner shall detach Original Licensed En-
balmer's Certificate No. and Immediately
forward same to the Secretary of the State
Board of Embalming of the State of Kan
sas.
way Company, Express Company, Electric
Railway, Coaches, Public or Private Con-
veyance who receives dead human body
for r transp9 pafi must m out Railway,
Transit Form and sign as person, agent or
owner and securely fasten Original Faster
containing Registrars Removal Permit, Lii
eensed Embalmer's Certificate No. 1 and
Transit Form on the shipping box or case
$50 that the same may be read) said Vel
low Faster must accompany body to des
tination.
No person, agent or owner of any Rail-
y
Railways. Coaches, public or Private Con-
veyances, shall transport, receive or offer
t teTcent dIsinterred boSv, nn,ess said body
has been embalmed twelve t12) hours and
is accompanied by Yellow Faster, proper
ly filled out and signed by a Kansas Lii
censed Embalmer in accordance with this
rule.
The sale of embalming fluids, hardening
compounds and preservatives containing
mineral poisons, to be used for the prep
aration of dead human bodies, is strictly
lzul t. h. - Al.
use, in the preparation of dead human
bodies. of any such embalming fluid, hard
mineral poison, is strictly forbidden in this
State: and labels on. container shall read:
mo Mineral Poison"
All embalming fluids sold, offered for
sale or used for embalming in the State
of Kansas. shall have the per cent of for
maldehyde gas as contained in the orig.
inal package. and also the per cent of
formaldehyde gas as used according to d.
rections,. plainly and correctly stated on
the label.
All adult shipping boxes. or cases. must
have at least-six (6) handles
tTwo handles on each. side six inches
from the bottom and each end handle six
inches from the top of box)
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.
died of measles, erysipeIas. diphtheria Tor
any diphtheritic disease, including heart
failure, Group, membranous croup. angina
sore throat, scarlet fever, (sometimes call
ed scarlatina, scarlet rash, searlatinal neph-
Titis eankeT fash gandeTs
chicken pox). Asiatic cholera, yellow fever
typhus fever bubonic plague, epidemic
cerebral. spinal meningitis, anterior polio
myeIitis Gnfantile paralysis). or leprosy.
shall not be transported, offered or ac-
cepted for transportation by any person,
agent or owner of any Railway Company,
Express company, Electric Railway,
Coaches. Public or Private Conveyances,
infected by (a)-arteriai and cavity in
lection with an approved disinfecting fluid
containing not less than fourteen f141h)
per cent of forty per cent formaldehyde
solution and the amount of fluid injected
must not be less than one-thirteentb 1-13)
of the body weight, (bl-dfstfnfecting and
stopping all oriffces with dry cotton; fc)-
washing the body with a disinfeetant, T. e..
solution of bi-chloride of mercury / to
1000 (T15 grains of the bi-chloride Of mer-
curry to 1 pint of waterD. After being pre-
pared and disinfected as above. such body
shall be enclosed IN an air-tight metallic
zinc. tin. copper or lead lined coffin or
sealed or soldered, and all encased in a
strong outside wooden or metal box Or
the body being prepared and disinfeeted
as above, may be enclosed in coffin or
an air tight metallic, zinc, tin copper or
lead lined wooden shipping box, or all
metal shipping case or vault. all joints and
seams Theoretically sealed and soldered-
The embalmer must adhere strictly to
modern sanitary methods IN regard to dis
Infection, in preparing dead human bodies
for shipment under this rule.
Provided the body is in an air-tight.
may be dispensed with If body is conveyed
in hearse or other conveyance used ex-
clusively for conveying the dead.
-EXCEPTION' when bodies dead Of any
in local cemeteries near place Of death and