Possons, Hattie TRANSIT AND BURIAL. PERMIT
N®.-7/. 0 STATE OF NEW YORK
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK
his Permit must be properly signed and presented, with Undertaker's Certificate, to the Railroad, Express or other
Transportation `$gent, before a body can be ship %
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The Certificate of Death, vi " -rushed to s required by the Laws of this State, permission
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is hereby granted to
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burial at „„,,..C,r r-..-- Cemetery at
for the re 1 and shipment for cremation ( frame)
who died in
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the Borough of --
Aged v / years months
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'which necessitates shipment under Rule No._ of the Rules of the New York State Department of Health
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for the Transportation of the Dead, as printed on the back of this erm
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This Permit must be detached and delve ed to the V erson an charge of th Corpse.
NEW YORK
STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH
ALBANY
SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE RULES RELATING TO THE TRANSPORTATION
OF DEAD BODIES BY COMMON CARRIERS
(In effect throughout the State of New York,except in the City of New York,on August 1,1915.]
RULE 1. A transit permit and transit label issued by the local registrar of vital statistics must accompany each dead body transported
by a common carrier.
The transit permit shall state the date of issuance,the name, sex,race and age of the deceased, and the cause and date of death. The
transit permit shall also state the date and route of shipment,the point of shipment and destination,the method of preparation of the body, \
and shall bear the signature of the undertaker and the signature and official title of the officer issuing the permit.
The transit label shall state the date of issuance,the name of the deceased,the place and date of death,the name of the escort or consignee,
the point of shipment and destination;and shall bear the signature and official title of the officer who issued the transit permit. The transit
label shall be attached to the outer box or case.
RULE 2. The transportation by common carriers of bodies dead of anydiseases other than those mentioned in Rule 3 shall be
only under the following conditions:
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(a) The coffin or casket shall be encased in a strong outer box made of good sound lumber,not less than s of an inch thick. All
joints shall be securely put together and the box tightly closed. Either the coffin or casket,or the outer box or case,shall be watertight.\ 14p
(b) When the destination cannot be reached within 60 hours after death,all body orifices shall be closed with absorbent cotton,and 1`
the body placed at once in a coffin or casket which shall be immediately closed and the coffin or casket shall be encased in a strong outer
box made of good sound lumber not less than s of an inch thick. All joints must be securely put together and the box tightly closed
and either the coffin or casket,or outer box or case,shall be watertight.
RULE 3. The transportation by common carrier of bodies dead of smallpox,plague, cholera,
croup,diphtheritic sore throat),scarlet fever(scarlet rash,scarlatina),shall be perit e only underth following conditions:
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All body orifices shall be closed with absorbent cotton,the body shall be enveloped in a sheet saturated with an effective disin •:. ,g
fluid and shall be placed at once in a coffin which shall be immediately and permanently closed._ The coffin or raaketshallbe ene . _
-- __-_-- a-stmag-cutoff bo,Luade of goad-sound luiniber;not less than Tor an mch thick,all joints of which shalI be securely put together �., `he
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box shall be tightly and permanently closed. Either the coffin or casket,or the outer box or case,shall be Watertight. >
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RULE 4. No dead body shall be disinterred for transportation by common carrier without the previous consent of authorities s ving
jurisdiction at the place of disinterment. The transit permit and transit label shall be required as provided in Rule 1,and Paragraph(a) • Rule
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2 shall apply.
RULE 5. Every outside case holding any dead body offered for transportation by common carrier shall bear at least four handles and'
hen
over 5 feet 6 inches in length,shall bear six handles.
PROMULGATED BY STATE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH AT ALBANY, JUNE 25, 1915.
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