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the State that could be profitably manufactured in any of our prisons, with a view of manufacturing in the prison such goods as may be used in these several institutions or political divisions.

SEC. 4. The board shall complete its investigations and Report, when have its report ready to be mailed to the members elect of the to have ready. legislature of nineteen hundred eleven by December first, nine

teen hundred ten.

not to make

SEC. 5. The boards of control of any of the three penal Boards, etc., institutions mentioned in this act shall not, nor the wardens contracts, etc. of said institutions, nor shall any other authority whatsoever, make any new contract or extend the time of any existing or pending contract by which the labor or time of any prison convict in any of the penal institutions of this State shall be contracted, let, furnished out or sold to any person, firm, association or corporation beyond December eleventh, nineteen hundred eleven: Provided, That this act shall in Proviso, no way affect any existing contract or contracts, except such existing contract for a longer term than as specified in this section shall have the written approval of the Governor and the warden of the institution endorsed thereon.

contracts.

SEC. 6. No member of said board of prison industries Compensation. shall receive any compensation for the duties herein created. and imposed, other than or beyond the actual expenses incurred in the discharge of said duties. Approved May 26, 1909.

[No. 141.]

AN ACT to amend section one of act number one hundred forty-six of the public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act to provide for teaching in the public schools the modes by which the dangerous communicable diseases are spread and the best methods for the restriction and prevention of such diseases," approved May sixteen, eighteen hundred ninety-five, said section being compiler's section four thousand seven hundred ninety-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven.

The People of the State of Michigan-enact:

SECTION 1. Section one of act one hundred forty-six of the Section public acts of eighteen hundred ninety-five, entitled "An act amended. to provide for teaching in the public schools the modes by which the dangerous communicable diseases are spread, and the best methods for the restriction and prevention of such diseases," approved May sixteen, eighteen hundred ninety-five,

Dangerous

diseases,

methods for

said section being compiler's section four thousand seven hundred ninety-six of the Compiled Laws of eighteen hundred ninety-seven, is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 1. There shall be taught in every year in every public communicable school in Michigan the principal modes by which each of the dangerous communicable diseases are spread and the best methods for the restriction and prevention of each such public schools. disease. Such instruction shall be given by the aid of text

restriction,

etc., to be

taught in

Text-books, approval of.

books on physiology, supplemented by oral and blackboard
instruction. From and after July first, nineteen hundred
ten, no text-book on physiology shall be adopted for use in the
public schools of this State, unless it shall give at least one-
eighth of its space to the causes and prevention of dangerous
communicable diseases. Text-books used in giving the fore-
going instruction shall, before being adopted for use in the
public schools, have that portion given to the instruction
in communicable diseases approved by the State Board of
Health to the State Board of Education.
Approved May 26, 1909.

Certain boards

or officers to deliver un

to university.

[No. 142.]

AN ACT to provide for securing and transporting unclaimed dead human bodies to be used for dissection in the advancement of science.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

SECTION 1. Any member of either of the following boards and any of the following named officers or persons, to-wit: claimed bodies The board of health of any city, village or township, the common council of any city, board of trustees of any village, any board or officer having the direction, management, charge or control in whole or in part of any prison, house of correction, workhouse, jail or lockup, founded or supported in whole or in part at public expense, having in his or their possession or control, the dead body of any person not claimed by any relative or legal representative; or the county superintendent of the poor, keepers of poorhouses and almshouses, any physician or other person in charge of any poorhouse or almshouse or charitable institution, sheriff or coroner, having in his or their possession or control the dead body of any person not claimed by any relative, personal friend or legal representative as hereinafter provided, and which may be required to be buried at public expense or the expense of any one of such public institutions, or the dead body of any convict who died in prison under sentence of murder or attempt to murder,

boards, etc.,

not claimed by any relative, personal friend or legal representative, shall deliver such dead body or bodies within thirtysix hours after death, or after he or they shall become possessed thereof, to a licensed embalmer who shall, after preparing the body for shipment, place it in a plain coffin and outer box plainly directed to the demonstrator of anatomy of the "University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan," and deliver the same together with a transit permit, as provided by the State Board of Health, to the express or railway company at the nearest railway station, excepting only the dead bodies of such persons as shall have died of smallpox, diphtheria or scarlet fever: Provided, That in the county of Proviso, Wayne the dead bodies herein before described shall be sent in county. Wayne the same manner and under the same restrictions as those sent to the demonstrator of anatomy of the University of Michigan, either to the demonstrator of anatomy of the Detroit College of Medicine, or to the demonstrator of anatomy of the Detroit Homeopathic College. Such boards, common councils, officers Duty of or other persons making such shipment or delivery, shall as making the case may be take the usual shipping receipt or a fully par- shipment. ticularized receipt for such package and shall notify the consignee of such shipment by letter mailed on the day the package is so delivered to the express or railway company, or within the county of Wayne, delivered concurrently by messenger or otherwise with the delivery of such package, and shall also enclose in such letter a statement giving, as nearly as can be ascertained, the name, age, residence and cause of death of such deceased person, whose body has been shipped or is being delivered as aforesaid; and also a statement of the cost and expenses which have been incurred in the storage and preparation of the body for shipment, in the rental of the coffin and box, and in the delivery of the same to the transportation company; and upon the receipt of the package so shipped to Duty of him, the demonstrator of anatomy of the university of the of U. of M. on State of Michigan shall immediately forward to such officer, receipt of board, council or institution or person or persons making such shipment or incurring such expenses the amount thereof, not exceeding in any case the sum of fifteen dollars, exclusive of the cost of transporting the body and the cost of returning the coffin and box to the consignor: Provided, That the trans Proviso, portation charges for any corpse by any railway company or transportaexpress company shall be the price of one first-class passenger fare between the points of shipment, but in no case shall the charge be less than two dollars, and no railway company or express company shall require such corpse to be accompanied by a person. Upon the receipt of a package so delivered to Duty of him, the demonstrator of anatomy of the Detroit College of of certain Medicine or of the Detroit Homeopathic College, as the case Detroit may be, shall immediately forward to such officer, board, council or institution or person or persons making such delivery or incurring such expenses, the amount thereof not ex

demonstrator

package.

tion charges.

demonstrator

colleges.

Proviso,

request for interment.

Bodies, disposition and record of.

ceeding in any case the sum of seven dollars: Provided, Such dead body shall not be shipped or delivered as aforesaid if it shall be requested in good faith for interment by any relative before the same shall have been delivered as aforesaid, and in case the dead body of any person so delivered or so shipped as aforesaid be subsequently claimed or demanded of either of said demonstrators of anatomy, or of any other person or institution, into whose possession or under whose control it may have been placed by virtue of the provisions of the law, by any relative or legal representative of such deceased person for private interment, it shall be given up to such claimant, even after the same shall have been interred as hereinafter provided, after they shall have paid the actual expenses incurred and paid by the demonstrator of anatomy or by any person or institution into whose possession or under whose control it may have been placed by virtue of the provisions of this act. Such bodies shall be used only for the purposes hereinafter mentioned, and shall then in all cases be interred in some suitable place kept for that purpose and a correct record shall be kept of every such body; and all matters by which such body may be identified, coming to the knowledge of the person or officer at any time in charge of such bodies, shall be faithfully recorded at length in a book kept for that purpose, to the end that the same may at any time be traced and discovered by the friends and relatives of such deceased person: Provided, That the institution, board, council, officer or person nearest known aforesaid, shall immediately after the death of such person notify, if possible, by telegraph, or otherwise by letter, one or more of the nearest known relatives of such deceased person of the death of such person; and in no other case shall the body of such deceased person be shipped or delivered as aforesaid until after the expiration of twenty-four hours from death. Every individual, officer or party violating any of the provisions of this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

Proviso,

notice to

relative.

Violation a misdemeanor.

Institutions to which bodies may be shipped.

Distribution

of.

Notice to

other.

SEC. 2. The bodies so shipped or delivered as aforesaid shall be used for the advancement of anatomical science in this State in the following institutions of learning, only, viz: The University of Michigan, the Detroit College of Medicine and the Detroit Homeopathic College. The said bodies shall be distributed to and among the same equitably and, as far as possible, in the order in which they are received, and the number assigned to each by the said demonstrator of anatomy shall be proportional to that of its students of anatomy in actual attendance, and to this end the said demonstrator of anatomy shall, within ten days after the opening of the scholastic year of each of said institutions, ascertain from the dean or other executive officer of said institutions the number of students of anatomy in actual attendance in the said respective institutions. The said demonstrators of anatomy shall, upon ascertaining the number of students of anatomy

in actual attendance in said institutions, each notify the other in writing of the information thus obtained; and at any time thereafter, upon the written request of either of said demonstrators of anatomy delivered or mailed to the others, the said demonstrators of anatomy shall ascertain and inform each other in writing of the number of students of anatomy in actual attendance in the said institution, to the end that at all times the distribution of said bodies may be equitable and proportionable to the number of students of anatomy in actual attendance in the said institutions. In order to procure a Unfit bodies. fair and proportionable distribution of bodies in quality as well as in quantity, each demonstrator of such institution may throw out any body which when received, shall in his opinion be unfit and worthless for the advancement of anatomical science, and shall not count such body as anatomical material when received, but on his request to the other demonstrators or to any one of them shall be supplied by such demonstrator applied to with the proportionate number of good bodies fit for use for the necessary instruction. The Annual exdemonstrators of anatomy of the aforesaid institutions shall each make annually in the last week of the month of June, a sworn statement of the actual expenses borne and incurred by him under the provisions of this act; and from such statements the total cost of the anatomical material received shall be ascertained by a board consisting of all of said demonstrators, and shall be apportioned and paid by such institutions in proportion to the number of bodies used by each of said institutions: Provided, however, That either of the said de- Proviso, ten monstrators of anatomy upon the receipt of every body under days possesand by virtue of the provisions of this act, shall cause the same to be embalmed or put in a state of preservation, and shall not permit the same to be delivered to any of said institutions for the purpose of dissection until the same shall have been

pense statement.

sion.

in his possession at least ten days. It shall be the duty of the Notice to said demonstrator of anatomy of the University of Michigan relatives. and the said demonstrator of anatomy of the Detroit College of Medicine and the said demonstrator of anatomy of the Detroit Homeopathic College, upon the receipt of any body under the provisions of this act, to immediately notify either by mail or telegraph as he may deem best, the relatives of such deceased person, if known, of the receipt of such body and that said body will be preserved intact for the space of ten days, in which time the said relative will be entitled to said body for Entitled to the purpose of interment, and shall pay such expenses, and body on the demonstrator of anatomy, in whose possession or under expenses. whose control the said body may be, shall deliver to such relative or such legal representative the said body, together with the said coffin and box enclosing the same; but in case said body shall not be requested by such relatives until after the same shall have been applied to the purposes intended, the remains thereof together with the coffin and box aforesaid

payment of

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