The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-09
USE OF YELLOW SHIPPING FASTER.


USE OF YELLOW SHIPPING FASTER.
Rule 1. Yellow pastors used for the
transportation of dead human bodies, must
censed Embalmer's Certificates Nos. L and
2, Railway, Express and Public or Private
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 a valid license from said Board.
The embalmer who prepares body for
tramspoftation, Dexcep5 TO ocai or ad'aeent
balmer's Certificates Nos. l and 2. also
secure Registrars Removal Permit, all
properly filled out and signed. Said en-
balmer 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 a dead human body
for transportation must fill out Railway,
Express. Public or Private Conveyance
Transit Form and sign as person, agent or
owner. and securely fasten Original Faster
containing Registrars Removal Permit Lii
censed Embalmer's Certificate No. 1 and
Transit Form on the shipping box or case
ESQ that the same may be read) said Vel
low Faster must accompany body to des-
tination.
No person, agent or owner of any Rail-
/ way Company, Express Company. Electric
Railways. Coaches, public or Private Con-
veyances, shall transport, receive or offer
for transportation any dead human body
has been embalmed twelve G2) 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
/ forbidden in the State of Kansas; also the
bodies, of any such embalming fluid, hard
ening compound or preservatiye. containing
mineral poison, is strictly forbidden in this
State. and labels on container shall read !:
"No 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
formaidehyde gas as used according to di-
rectionss plainly and correctly stated on
the label.
All adult shipping boxes. or cases. must
have at least six (6) handles.
| 1.-TWO handles on each side six inches
| from the bottom and each end handle six
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES.
Rule. 2 The bodies of those who have
any diphtheritic disease, including heart
/ failure, Group. membranous Group, angina
/ sore throatl. scarlet fever, (sometines call
ed scarlatina. scarlet rash. scarlatinal neph-
ritis. canker rash). CHAMBERS, anthrax
I j..
/ chicken -pox). Asistic cholera. yellow fever
1 typhus fever. bubonic plague, epidemic
cerebral spinal meningitis. anterior polio
myelitis infantile raralysis). or leprosy.
shall not be transported, offered or ac-
copied for transportation by any person
agent or owner of any Railway Company
/ Express company, Electric Railway
Coaches, Public or Private Conveyances
unless prepared by being thoroughly dis
infected by (a)-arterial and cavity in.
lection with an approved disinfecting fluid
containing not less than fourteen, az
per cent of forty per cent formaldehydf
solution and the amount OF fluid injected
must not be less than one-thirteenth 1-13
of the body weight: tbl-tiistfnfecting ant
stopping all orifices with cry cotton: (c)-
i washing the body with disinfectant. |. e.
a solution of bi-chieride of mercury 1 t.
1000 (71a grains Of the bi-chloride Of mer
curry to / pint of water. After being pre-
pared and disinfected as above.-such body
zinc. tin, copper lead lined coffin Of
casket, all joints and seams hermeticall,
sealed or soldered, and all encased in
strong outside wooden or metal box. Or
the body being prepared and disinfecte,
as above, may be enclosed in coffin o.
casket. and the coffin or cssket encased il
an afr-tight metallic, zinc. tin. copper o
lead lined wooden shipping box, all
metal shipping case or vault, all joints AM
senms hermeticaIly seA1ed and soldered.
The embalmer must adhere strictly 4
modern sanitary, methods in regard to dis
infection, In preparing dead human bodie
for shipment under this rule.
Provided the body is in an afr-tight
sealed cssket- the shipping or rough bo
may be dispensed with II body is conveye
in hearse or other conveyance used ex
clusively for conveying the dead.
EXCEPTION when bodies dead of an
disease named in Rule 2 are to be buFie
! in local cemeteries near place Of death an