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A medical certificate subscribed by the attending physician, together with his address and date of making, stating fact and time of death, giving year, month, day and hour; time of attendance; when last seen alive; the disease or injury causing death, with contributory cause or complication, and the duration of the illness; if from violence, the means and circumstances of the injury and whether indicating accident, suicide or homicide. Provided, that the medical certificate shall be made and subscribed by the coroner whenever the cause of death is investigated by him. Provided further, that in cities of the first, second and third class the health officer, and in towns, villages and cities of the fourth class the local registrar, or a sub-registrar, shall make and subscribe the medical certificate for any death occurring therein without medical attendance or investigation by the coroner. If the local registrar, or sub-registrar, is unable to determine the cause of death he shall refer the case to a physician, or to the coroner, for certification.

When the death occurs in a hospital or other institution or place, other than the home of the deceased, a statement of the length of time at the place of death, length of time in the state, usual place of residence and where the disease was contracted.

A statement showing place and date of burial signed by the undertaker with his address.

In the case of a child dead at birth a certificate of birth having the word "stillbirth" inserted in place of the name, and, also a certificate of death shall be made and filed with the local registrar, and a burial permit issued as hereinafter provided. The medical certificate shall be signed by the attending physician and shall state the cause of death as "stillborn" with the cause of the stillbirth, whether a premature birth and, if so, the period of utero-gestation in months. Provided: that a certificate of birth or death shall not be required for a child that has not advanced to the fifth month of utero-gestation.

In case of stillbirths occurring without an attending physician the medical certificate shall be made and subscribed as is herein provided in case of death without a medical attendance.

Whenever the state registrar shall receive a death certificate which is incomplete or inaccurate, he shall endeavor to secure information relative to any errors or omissions, and shall make corrections on the original in red ink when additional information is secured, provided, that whenever a certified copy of any such corrected death certificate, is issued, the corrections shall be shown on the certified copy in red and the provisions of this act shall be printed or typed on the form used for such certification.

4653. Duties of local registrars The local registrar shall endorse on each certificate of birth and death filed with him the number of his district, the number of the certificate, in consecutive numbers, beginning with number one (1) for the first birth and the first death in each calendar year, the date when filed with him, his postoffice address, and subscribe the same. He shall record such certificates in a suitable record book and, on the tenth day of each month, transmit to the state registrar all original certificates filed with him during the preceding month. If no births or no deaths occurred in his district, within his knowledge, during any month, he shall report that fact to the state registrar on the tenth day of the following month. When required by the state registrar he shall supply any information, or data, necessary to make a complete record or to facilitate the administration of the provisions of this act. ('13 c. 579 § 5)

4654. Burial permits.-Upon the filing of a proper certificate of death, completely filled out, with the local registrar, or sub-registrar, but not otherwise, he shall issue a burial permit reciting the place and time of death; the full name, age, sex and nativity of the deceased; the cause of death; the name of the medical attendant; the time and place of interment; the name and address of the undertaker; that a certificate of death complying with the law has been filed in his office; and authorizing the burial or other disposition of the body. He shall sign the permit officially, date it the day of issue, and deliver it to the undertaker, or person applying therefor, who shall deliver it to the person in charge of the place of burial, or, when the body is transported by common carrier, to the person accompanying it, before interment or other disposition of the body is made. Provided, that when the body is transported from without for burial within the state, the transit permit issued in accordance with the law of the state where the death occurred, shall be accepted by the local registrar of the district in which the interment is made in place of a certificate of death and a burial permit issued accordingly, with the fact that the body is brought in for interment endorsed thereon. ('13 c. 579 § 6)

4656. Interment, duties of persons in charge of places of. ---The body of any person dying, or found dead, in this state, or the body of a stillborn infant, shall not be interred or otherwise disposed of, or removed from one registration district to another, or held for more than seventy-two hours after death, unless and until a proper certificate of death has been filed and a permit issued as provided for by this act. Where there is a person charged with the care or supervision of a ceme tery, burial place or other premises where bodies are interred or otherwise disposed of, the name of such person and his address shall be posted in a prominent and conspicuous place at the entrance to such premises. He

shall not inter, nor permit the interment or other disposition of the body of a deceased person until he receives a burial permit as herein provided. He shall keep a record of all interments, or other disposition of the body, made on the premises under his charge, stating the name of the deceased person, place of death, date of burial and the name and address of the undertaker. Such record shall be open to public inspection at all times. ('13 c. 579 § 8)

4657. Personal and statistical records of inmates of public nnd private institutions to be made and preserved. All superintendents, managers or persons in charge of lying-in or other hospitals, almshouses, charitable or other institutions, public or private, to which persons resort for confinement, treatment of disease, care, or are committed by process of law, shall, at once, make and preserve a record of all the personal and statistical particulars relative to the inmates now in, or hereafter admitted to their institutions, that are required to be stated in the certificate of birth and death provided for by this act, and on or before the tenth of each month shall file with the state board of health, on a blank provided by such board for the purpose, a report of births and deaths, or stillbirths, occurring in such institution during the previous month. If admitted for medical treatment of disease the physician in charge shall specify, in the record, the nature of the disease and where it was contracted. ('13 c. 579 § 9)

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4658. State board to furnish blanks, forms and books.— The state board of health shall prepare, provide and furnish to the local registrars, and other persons requiring them, all blanks, forms and books of record necessary for carrying out the purposes of this act.

Such blanks, forms and books shall be furnished at the expense of the state and printed by the state printing commission. Provided: that the books of record for the local registrar shall be paid for by the city, village or town comprising the registration district and furnished by the state at actual cost. These books shall be substantially made and shall contain space for recording all the facts shown on the original returns of births and deaths. ('13 c. 579 § 10)

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4659. State registrar to preserve certificates Instructions--Information. The state registrar shall arrange, bind and preserve in a systematic manner, all original certificates of birth and death returned to him and maintain a suitable index of the same. may assign to each registration district a number to be used as an identifying designation in connection with the name. He shall prepare and issue necessary instructions for the use of local registrars, physicians, undertakers and others required to furnish information under the provisions of this act.

If any such officers, or others, fail or refuse to obtain and furnish the information so required, the state board of health may obtain the same by other means and the reasonable cost thereof shall be paid by the city, village or town where the expense is necessarily incurred. 579 § 11)

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4660. Fees of local registrars, etc.-Each local registrar, except those acting in cities which have a population of more than 100,000, shall receive from the county in which his district is located, a sum of twenty-five cents for each birth and each death certificate. He shall receive the same fee for each monthly report card of no births or deaths having occurred in his district to his knowledge, providing such card is received by the state registrar before the fifteenth of the month following that to which it applies. Annually, on or before the first day of April, the state registrar shall tabulate all the facts shown in the returns of local registrars, except those acting in cities which have a population of more than 100,000, as having occurred during the preceding year, and transmit to the clerk of the district court of each county a certified copy of such tabulation, so far as the same relates to the vital statistics of such county, and each clerk of the district court shall file, index and preserve such certified copy, and the same shall be prima facie evidence of each and every fact contained therein. Such tabulation shall show the whole number of births and deaths, and reports of no births or deaths having occurred, transmitted by each local registrar during each year, but no fee shall be paid for "no report" cards if a report of a birth or death for that month is received later.

Upon the receipt and the filing of such certified copies the clerk of courts shall issue to each local registrar within his county a voucher for the amount due him as shown by such tabulated statement. Upon the presentation of such voucher to the county auditor, a warrant for the amount thereof shall be issued by him. The forms of indexes and indexing shall be prescribed by the state registrar and made in a suitable book furnished at the expense of the county. All statistics of births and deaths shall be so indexed without other compensation than the clerk's salary, except, that in counties where the clerk is not on a salaray basis he shall be paid five cents by the county, for each name so indexed. ('13 c. 579 § 12)

4660-A. Whenever the clerk of a district court shall report to the state registrar that a judgment has been entered determining the paternity of an illegitimate child the state registrar shall record the name of the father, and sufficient data to identify the judgment, in connection with the record of the birth of the child appearing in his office, and also

in connection with the record of the death of the child, if there be such record. A report by the clerk of the subsequent vacation of such judgment shall be recorded in like manner.

Likewise whenever any District Court shall enter a judgment that any person named on a birth certificate or death certificate, as the father of an illegitimate child, is not in fact the father of such child, the clerk of such court shall forward to the state registrar and to the local registrar of the district in which such birth or death is reported, a copy of its judgment; whereupon, it shall be the duty of such registrar to make such correction as to the statement of paternity of such birth or death certificate, and to attach to the original, or to his record of the original, a copy of such judgment.

4660-B. Except when so ordered by a court of record no member of the state board of health nor any state or local registrar, nor any person connected with the office of either, shall disclose the fact that any child was illegitimate. The district court shall have jurisdiction, upon petition against and notice to the state registrar, to issue such orders permitting or requiring the inspection of records of births and deaths, as to it may seem just and proper, and the making and delivery of certified copies thereof.

4661. The state registrar, or any local registrar, shall furnish any applicant therefor a certified copy of the record of any birth or death recorded under the provisions of this act; provided that the fact that any child was illegitimate, shall not be disclosed except when ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction in accordance with section 4660-B. For the making and certification of which the registrar shall be entitled to receive a fee of fifty cents, to be paid by the applicant. Such copy of the record of a birth or death, when certified by the state or local registrar to be a true transcript therefrom, shall be prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated in all courts in this state. The state registrar shall keep a correct account of all fees or moneys received by him under the provisions of this act, and pay the same over to the state treasurer at the end of each month.

Sec. 6. Penalties.-Section 4662, General Statutes, 1913, is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

4662. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act, or shall wilfully neglect or refuse to perform any duty imposed upon him thereby, or shall furnish false information affecting any certificate or record provided in this chapter, or who shall disclose any information in violation of section 4660-B or 4661, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than one

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