Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1917-01-25

Sec 5.-That the body of any per-
son whose death occurs in this state,
or which shall be found dead therein,
shall not be inferred, deposited in a
vault or tomb, creInated or otherwise
disposed of, or removed from or into
any registration district, be temper
arily held pending further disposition
more than " hours after death, I'M
less a permit for burial, removal or
other disposition thereof shall have
been properly issued by the local reg
istrar of the registration district in
which the death occurred or the body
was found. And no such burial or
removal shall be issued by any reg
istrar until, wherever practicable, a
complete and satisfactory certificate
of death has been filed with him as
hereinafter provided; provided, that
when a dead body is transported from
outside the state into a registration
district in-for burial, the transit or
removal permit, issued in accordance
with the law and health regulations of
the place where the death occurred,
shall be accepted by the local regis
trar of the district into which the
body has been transported for burial
or other disposition, as a bass upon
which he may issue local burial per-
nit; he shall note upon the face of
the burial permit the fact that 1t was
body shipped in for interment, and
give the actual place of death; and
no local registrar shall receive any
fee for the issuance of burial or re-
moval permits under this Act other
than the compensation provided in
section 20.
Sec. 6.-That a stillborn child shall
be registered as birth and also as a
death, and separate certificates of
both the birth and the death shall be
filed with the local registrar, in the
usual form and manner, the certifi-
cate of birth to contain in place of the
name of the child the word still
birth; provided, that a certificate of
birth and a certificate of death shall
not be required for a child that has
not advanced to the fifth month Of
uterogestation. The medical certi-
ficate of the caues of death shall be
signed by the attending physician, if
any, and shall state the cause of death
as "stillborn," with the cause Of the
stillbirth, If known, whether a pre-
mature birth, and, if born premature
ly, the period of utergestion, in
months, If known; and burial or
removal permit of the prescribed
form shall be required. Midwives
shall not sign certificates of death for
stillborn children; but such cases,
and stillbirths occurring without at
tendance of either physician or mid
wife, shall be treated as deaths with
out medical. attendance, as provided
for in Section of this Act.
Sec. THAT the certificate Of
death shall contain the following
items, which are hereby declared nee
essary for the legal, social, and sani-
tary purposes subserved by registra-
tion records:
% Place of death, including
state, county, township, village or
city. If in city, the ward, street,
and house number; If in hospital
or other institution, the name of the
same to be given instead of the street
and house number. If in an indust-
rial camp, the name of the camp to
be given.
ca Full name of decedent. If an
unnamed child, the surname proceed
ed by Unnamed"
CD Sex.
a. Color or race-as white,
black, mulatto Cor other negro de-
SCENT, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, or
other.
CD Conjugal condition-as single