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Tit. VI, Ch. 11. VITAL STATISTICS. §§ 1376-al7-1376-al8.
9 registrar of all physicians, midwives, undertakers or retail casket
10 dealers who have been registered in his district during the whole or
11 any part of the preceding calendar years. No fee or other compen-
12 sation shall be charged by local registrars to physicians, midwives,
13 undertakers or casket dealers for registering their names under this
14 section or making returns thereof to the state registrar.
[39 G. A., ch. 222, § 16.]
SEC. 1376-al7. Returns from public and private institutions.
1 All superintendents or managers, or other persons in charge of
2 hospitals, almshouses, lying-in or other institutions, public or private,
3 to which persons resort for treatment of diseases, confinement, or
4 are committed by process of law, shall make a record of all the per-
5 sonál and statistical particulars relative to the inmates in their insti-
6 tutions which are required in the forms of the certificates provided
7 for by this chapter, as directed by the state registrar ; and such record
8 shall be, by them, made for all inmates at the time of their admittance ;
9 and in case of persons admitted or committed for treatment of disease,
10 the physician in charge shall specify for entry in the record the nature
11 of the disease, and where, in his opinion, it was contracted. The per-
12 sonal particulars and information required by this section shall be
13 obtained from the individual himself if practicable to do so; and when
14 they can not be so obtained, they shall be obtained in as complete a
15 manner as possible from relatives, friends, or other persons acquainted
16 with the facts.
[39 G. A., ch. 222, § 17.]
SEC. 1376-al8. Blanks and instructions—defective certificates—
system of preservation—private records—transcripts.
1 The state registrar shall prepare, print and supply to all regis-
2 trars, all blanks and forms used in registering, recording and preserv-
3 ing the returns, or in otherwise carrying out the purpose of this
4 chapter ; and shall prepare and issue such detailed instructions as may
5 be required to procure the uniform observance of its provisions and
6 the maintenance of a perfect system of registration.
7 No other blanks shall be used than those supplied by the state
8 registrar. He shall carefully examine the certificates received monthly
9 from the local registrars, and if any such are incomplete or unsatis-
10 factory he shall require such further information to be supplied as
11 may be necessary to make the record complete and satisfactory.
12 All physicians, midwives, informants or undertakers, and all
13 other persons having knowledge of the facts, are hereby required to
14 supply such information as they may possess, upon a form provided by
15 the state registrar or upon the original certificate, regarding any
16 birth or death upon demand of the state registrar, in person, by mail,
17 or through the local registrar. No certificate of birth or death, after
18 its acceptance for registration by the local registrar, and no other
19 record made in pursuance of this chapter, shall be altered or changed in
20 any respect otherwise, than by amendments properly dated, signed
21 and witnessed.
22 The state registrar shall further arrange, bind and permanently
23 preserve the certificates in a systematic manner, and shall prepare
24 and maintain a comprehensive and continuous card index of all