Biennial report of the Territorial Board of Health of the Territory of Oklahoma. v. 2, 1893/94, Volume 2

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Democrat, 1894

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Page 56 - Every woman who solicits of any person any medicine, drug, or substance whatever, and takes the same, or who submits to any operation, or to the use of any means whatever, with intent thereby to procure a miscarriage, unless the same is necessary to preserve her life, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not less than one nor more than five years.
Page 15 - ... been approved by the State Board of Health, and the consent of the health authority of the locality to which the corpse is consigned...
Page 14 - Casket, hermetically sealed, and all enclosed in a strong, tight wooden box; or the body...
Page 15 - RULE 5. Every dead body must be accompanied by a person in, charge, who must be provided with a ticket, and also present a full first-class ticket marked "Corpse...
Page 15 - ... and a transit permit from board of health, or proper health authority, giving permission for the removal, and showing name of deceased, age, place of death, cause of death, and (if of a contagious or infectious nature) the point to which it is to be shipped, medical attendant, and name of undertaker.
Page 14 - State; when encased in a sound coffin or metallic case, and inclosed in a strong wooden box, securely fastened so it may be safely handled. But when it is proposed to transport them out of the State...
Page 54 - ... appoint some suitable person to fill such vacancy, and the person so appointed shall...
Page 12 - If any person shall fraudulently adulterate, for the purpose of sale, any drug or medicine, in such a manner as to render the same injurious to health, he shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one year, or by fine not exceeding four hundred dollars, and such adulterated drugs and medicines shall be forfeited and destroyed.
Page 56 - Every person who provides, supplies, or administers to any woman, or procures any woman to take any medicine, drug, or substance, or uses or employs any instrument or other means whatever, with intent thereby to procure the miscarriage...
Page 56 - Woman concealing birth of issue. A woman, who, having been convicted of endeavoring to conceal the still birth of any issue of her body, which, if born alive, would be a bastard, or the death of any such issue under the age of two years...

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