Brown, D Jay (Always write with ink.) TRANSIT PERMIT. CHAs.E.HOUGHTALING,Publisher,Albany, N.Y.
TRANSPORTATION OF CORPSE.
NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH.
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PERMIT OF LOCAL BOARD OF HEALTH.
This permit must be properly signed and presented, with Undertaker's Certificate, to the Railroad, Express or other
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This Permit must be detached from " Transit Label" below, and delivered to the Person in charge of the Corpse.
REGULATIONS
RELATING TO THE TRANSPORTATION OF THE DEAD
THESE RULES HAVING BEEN DULY ADOPTED AND PROPERLY PUBLISHED, HAVE THE FORCE OF LAW
RULE i. A transit permit and transit label issued by the proper health authorities shall be required for each dead body
transported by common carrier.
The transit permit shall state the name, sex, color, and age of the deceased, the cause and date of death, the initial and
terminal points, the date and route of shipment, a statement as to the method of preparation of the body, the date of issuance,
the signature of the undertaker, the signature and the official title of the officer issuing the permit.
The transit label shall state the place and date of death, the name of the deceased, the name of the escort or consignee, the
initial and terminal points,the date of issuance, the signature and official title of the officer issuing the permit, and shall be attached
to the outside case.
RULE 2. The transportation of bodies dead of smallpox, plague, Asiatic cholera, typhus fever, diphtheria (membranous croup,
diphtheritic sore throat), scarlet fever (scarlet rash, scarlatina), shall be permitted only under the following conditions:
The body shall be thoroughly embalmed with an approved disinfectant fluid, all orifices shall be closed with absorbent cotton,
the body shall be washed with the disinfectant fluid, enveloped in a sheet saturated with the same,and placed at once in the coffin
or casket which shall be immediately closed, and the coffin or casket or the outside case containing the same shall be metal,or metal
lined,and hermetically and permanently sealed.
RULE 3. The transportation of bodies dead of any disease other than those mentioned in Rule 2 shall be permitted under the
following conditions:
(a) When the destination can be reached within twenty-four hours after death, the coffin or casket shall be encased in a strong
outer box made of good sound lumber not less than seven-eighths of an inch thick, all joints must be tongued and groved,top
put on with cleats and cross pieces, all put securely together, and be tightly closed with white lead,asphalt varnish, or paraffin paint,
and a rubber gasket placed on the upper edge between the lid and box.
(b) When the destination cannot be reached within twenty-four hours after death, the body shall be thoroughly embalmed and
the coffin or casket placed in an outside case constructed as provided in paragraph (a).
RULE 4. No disinterred body dead from any disease or cause shall be transported by common carrier unless approved by the
health authorities having jurisdiction at the place of disinterment, and transit permit and transit label shall be required as provided
in Rule i.
The disinterment and transportation of bodies dead of diseases mentioned in Rule 2 shall not be allowed except by special permis-
sion of the health authorities at both the place of disinterment and the point of destination.
All disinterred remains shall be enclosed in metal or metal lined boxes and hermetically sealed,provided that bodies in a receiving
vault when prepared by licensed embalmers, shall not be regarded as disinterred bodies until after the expiration of 3o days.
RULE 5. The outside case may be omitted in all instances when the coffin or casket is transported in hearse or undertaker's
wagon.
RULE 6. Every outside case shall bear at least four handles and when over 5 feet 6 inches in length, shall bear six handles.
RULE 7. The term "approved disinfectant fluid" as used in these rules means an embalming fluid that has been submitted to
a bacteriological test and approved by the Board of Embalming Examiners of the State of New York,or a fluid that contains not less
than 5 per cent. of formaldehyde gas; the term, "embalming" as employed in these rules shall require the injection by licensed
embalmers of not less than to per cent. of the body weight, injected arterially
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aof itybnjc acid,and 12 sours sion shall
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elapse between the time of embalming and the shipment of the body. A 5 p
corrosive sublimate or 14 per cent. of a 4o per cent. solution of formaldehyde are approved as disinfectants for external washing of
bodies when required by these rules. Other prepared disinfectants of equal germicidal action may also be used.
PROMULGATED BY STATE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH DECEMBER 30, 1913