Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1899 — No Burials Without Permit. [ARTICLE]

No Burials Without Permit.

Dr English, Secretary of the county Bourd of Health, has received blanks for the-use of physicians in making death reports under the new law, which goes into operation Oct. Ist. Under this law no undertaker or other person shall bury any human body without a permit from the local health officer, and no. permit shall be issued without a death certificate from a physician. According to this law if any oorpse is buried without a legal permit it is the duty of the coronor to disinter snob oorpse and hold an inquest and make returns of his findings to the nearest health offioer. From all of which, it is evident that Dr. Hurty and the rest are waxing pretty desperate in their pursuit of “vital statistics,” and are prepared to resort to pretty extreme measures to obtain them. The law is likely to prove rather burdensome, especially in neighborhoods remote from places where there are no health officers. Dr. English, in order to make the burial permits as easily obtainable as* possible, will appoint resident deputies in Wheatfield and Remington, and from whom the permits can be obtained. There is no oharge for the permits, bat fines are provided forburials made without them. Births also must be reported to the nearest health officer.