The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1919-02-18
REGISTRATION OF
BIRTHS AND DEATHS
PHYSICIANS, MIDWIVES, UNDER
TAKERS AND SECTIONS RE-
OUIRED TO KEEP RECORD.

The act of the legislature to pro-
vide for the registration of births
and deaths in Georgia has at last
been put formally into effect.
Under the law city and town clerks
are made registrars for the cities and
towns, while the justices of the peace
and notaries public have charge in
the militia districts outside of the in
corporated towns.
The body of any person whose
death occurs in this state, or which
shall be found dead therein, shall not
be inferred, deposited in a vault or
tomb, cremated or otherwise disposed
of or removed from or into any reg
istration district, or be temporarily
held pending further disposition more
than seventy-two hours after death,
unless a permit for burial, removal
or other disposition thereof shall
have been. properly issued by the To-
cal registrar of the registration dis
trict in which the death occurred, or
the body was found. And no such
burial or removal permit shall be is
sued by the registrar until, where
practicable, a complete and satisfac-
tory certificate of death has been
filed with him.
The undertaken, or the person act
ing as undertaken, shall file the GER
tifcate of death with the local regis
trar of the district in which the death
occurred and obtain a burial or re-
moval permit prior to any disposition
of the body. He shall obtain the re-
CURED personal and statistical par
ticulars from the person best quail
fed to supply them, over the sigma
| ture and address of his informant. He
shall then present the certificate to
the attending physician, if any, or
/ to the health officer, or coroner, as
directed by the local registrar, for
| the medical certificate of the cause
| of death and other particulars to
/ complete the record, and he shall then
state the facts required relative to
the date and place of burial or re-
moval, over his signature and with
his address, and present the COM
plete certificate to the local registrar
in order to obtain a permit for burial,
removal or other disposition of the
body.
No person in charge of any prem
! Uses on which interments are made
| shall inter or permit the interment
or other disposition of any body I'M
: less it is accompanied by burial, re-
moval or transit permit as herein pro-
vided
The birth of each and every child
born in this state shall be registered.
Within ten days after 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
In each case where physician,
midwife or person acting as a mid
wife was in attendance upon a birth,
it shall be the duty of such persons
! 20 file the. certificate.
In each case where there was no
physician, midwife or person acting
| as midwife in attendance upon the
/ birth it shall be the dutv of the faith
/ er or mother of the child. the house
holder or the owner of the premises
where the birth occurred, or the man.
ager or superintendent of the public
or private institution where the birth
/ occurred, each in the order named,
within ten DAYS after the date Of such
hirth to raDort to the local registrar
/ the fact Of such birth.
physicians. undertakers, sections
a0d others interested in the law
7houlA consult with the city clerk or
local Justice and Get necessa~v blanks
/ 70 comply with the law