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keeper of the Cemetery or Crematory
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ASST. REGISTRAR OF RECORDS.
RESOLUTION OF THE BOARD OF HEALTH
Adopted March 17th, 1914
RESOLVED:That on and after March 17th,
1914, all caskets, coffins or other receptacles containing
the remains of persons deceased from small-pox, diph-
theria (croup), scarlet fever, yellow fever, typhus fever,
plague, Asiatic cholera, measles, or other infectious dis-
ease, shall be sealed immediately by the undertaker or
other person charged with enclosing the remains with
the official seal provided for that purpose by the Depart-
ment of Health and upon said seal shall be stated the
day and hour of sealing, and the name and number of
license of the undertaker.
SECTIONS 40, 44 and 103 OF SANITARY CODE.
SEC. 40. Dead bodies of human beings not to be
retained unburied.—No person shall retain unburied
the dead body of any human being for a longer
period than four days after the death of such per-
son, without a permit from the Sanitary Superin-
tendent, an Assistant Sanitary Superintendent, or
the Director of the Bureau of Infectious Diseases,
which permit shall specify the length of time during
which such body may be so retained. (S. C. Sec.
165.)
SEC. 44. Duties of sextons and other persons.—
Every sexton and other person having charge of any
crematory, burying-ground, cemetery, tomb, or vault,
in the City of New York, shall, before twelve o'clock
on Monday of each week, make a return to the De-
partment of Health, which return shall set forth a
record of the receipt and disposition of each body
buried or cremated since the last return, and which
said return shall be in such form, and shall specify
such additional particulars, as the Regulations of the
Board of Health shall require. (S. C. Sec. 170.)
SEC. 103. Public or Church funerals prohibited
where death has been caused by certain diseases.—
A public or church funeral shall not be held of any
person who has died of acute poliomyelitis (infantile
paralysis), Asiatic cholera, diphtheria (croup), epi-
demic cerebro-spinal meningitis, measles, plague,
scarlet fever, small-pox, typhus fever,or yellow fever,
but the funeral of such person shall be private, and
it shall not be lawful to invite to, or permit at, the
funeral of any person who has died of any one of the
above diseases, or invite to or permit at any services
connected herewith, any person whose attendance is
not necessary, or from or to whom there is danger
of contagion thereby. (S. C. Sec. 142.)