Manual for the use of boards of health of Massachusetts : containing the statutes relating to the public health, the medical examiner laws, the laws relating to the registration of vital statistics, and the decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts relating to the same / prepared by direction of the State Board of Health.

  • Massachusetts.
Date:
1890
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Credit: Manual for the use of boards of health of Massachusetts : containing the statutes relating to the public health, the medical examiner laws, the laws relating to the registration of vital statistics, and the decisions of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts relating to the same / prepared by direction of the State Board of Health. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    1844 1849 Registrars may be chosen in certain cases. P. S., c. 32, § 16. 1849 Secretary to prosecute for penalty. P. 8., c. 32, § 17 Cities or towns may make rules to enforce regis- tration. P. S., c. 32, § 18. Clerk or regis- trar to make certified copies of certain records and send to other cities and towns. 1889, 208. Physicians to certify primary and secondary causes of death in case of sol- diers and sailors. 1S89, 224. tabular results as will render them of practical utility, make report thereof annually to the general court, and do all other acts necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this chapter. 16. A city or town containing more than ten thousand in- habitants may choose a person other than the clerk to be registrar, who shall be sworn, and to whom all the provisions of this chapter concerning clerks shall apply. The returns and notices required to be made and given to clerks shall be made and given to such registrar under like penalties. 17. The secretary of the commonwealth shall prosecute, by an action of tort in the name of the commonwealth, for the recovery of any penalty or forfeiture imposed by sections two, three, twelve, sixteen, and eighteen. 18. A city or town may make rules and regulations to enforce the provisions of this chapter, or to secure a more perfect registration of births, marriages, and deaths therein. 19. The clerk or registrar of each city and town shall on the first day of each month make a certified copy of the record of all deaths and births recorded in the books of said city or town during the previous month, whenever the deceased person or the parents of the child born, were resident in any other city or town in this Commonwealth at the time of said death or birth ; and shall transmit said certified copies to the clerk or registrar of the city or town in which such deceased person or parents were resident at the time of said death or birth, stating in addition the name of the street and number of the house, if any, where such deceased person or parents so resided, when- ever the same can be ascertained ; and the clerk or registrar so receiving such certified copies shall record the same in the books kept for recording deaths or births. Such certified copies shall be made upon blanks to be furnished for that purpose by the secretary of the Commonwealth. 20. A physician who has attended a person in his last illness in furnishing a certificate for the purposes of registration as required by section three of chapter thirty-two of the Public Statutes shall, in case the deceased was a soldier or a sailor who served in the war of the rebellion, give both the primary and the secondary or immediate cause of death as nearly as he can state the same. If a physician refuses or neglects to make such certificate he shall forfeit to the treasurer the sum of ten dollars for the use of the town in which he resides.