Sec. 159. It shall be the duty of the parents of any child born in said city (and if there be no parent alive that has made such report, then of the next of kin of said child born), and of every person present at such birth, within ten days after such birth, to report to the Department of Health, in writing, as far as known, the date, borough and street number of said birth, and the name, sex and color of such child born, and the name, residence, birthplace and age of the parents, the occupation of the father and the maiden name of the mother. It shall be the duty of physicians and professional midwives to keep a register of the several births in which they have assisted professionally, which shall contain the date of birth, borough, street, and street number where such birth took place, the sex, color of the child, and also, as near as the same can be ascertained, the name of the said child, the number of previous children born of the mother, the number now living; the name, residence, birthplace and age of the parents; the occupation of the father and the maiden name of the mother; and to file a written copy of the said registry of birth with the Department of Health in the borough office of the borough where the birth occurred, within ten days after such birth, upon blank forms furnished by the said Department. Physicians and midwives shall certify they attended at the birth so reported, and that all the other facts stated in the copy of the said registry are true to the best of their knowledge, information and belief.

Sec. 160. It shall be the duty of the next of kin of any person deceased, and of each person being with such deceased person at his or her death, to report, in writing, to the Department of Health, within five days after such death, the age, color, nativity, last occupation and cause of death of such deceased person and the place of such person's death and last residence. Physicians who have attended deceased persons in their last illness shall make and preserve a registry of such death, Stating the cause thereof and specifying the date, hour, place and street number of such death, and shall, in the report of the death of such 1ersons, specify, as near as the same can be ascertained, the date of leath, sex, name and surname, age, occupation, term of residence in aid city, place of nativity, condition of life, whether single, married, idowed or divorced, color, last place of residence, the names and birth1:aces of the parents, the maiden name of the mother, and the cause 796

of death of such deceased persons and the coroners of the city, in such cases as an inquest may have been held, shall, in their certificates, conform to the requirements of this section.

Every physician in said city shall register his or her name and address in the office of the Bureau of Records of said Department.

Sec. 161. It shall be the duty of every person required to make or keep a registry of births, marriages or deaths, to present to the Bureau of Records, a copy of such registry signed by such person, within ten days after the birth or marriage, and within thirty-six hours, after the death of any person to whom such registry may or should relate, which shall thereupon be placed on file in the said Bureau.

Sec. 162. No person shall make, prepare, deliver or issue any false certificate, statement or report of a birth, marriage or death, or any such certificate, statement or report, which is not in accordance with the facts of the birth, marriage or death; all certificates, statements and reports of births, marriages or deaths, shall be signed by the person purporting to make the same, and no person shall sign or forge the name of another to any such certificate, statement or report.

Transportation of Dead Bodies.

Sec. 163. That no captain, agent, or person having charge of or attached to any ferry-boat, sailing, or other vessel, nor any person in charge of any car, stage, or other vehicle, or public or private conveyance, shall convey or allow to be conveyed thereon or by any means. aforesaid, nor shall any person convey or allow to be carried or conveyed, in any manner, from, through, into or within The City of New York, the dead body of any human being, or any part thereof, without a permit there for from the Board of Health. And the proper coupon for that purpose attached to any such permit, when issued, shall be preserved and returned to this Department, as its regulations may require, by the proper officer or person on each boat or vessel, and by the proper person in charge of any train of cars or vehicle on which any such body may be carried from said city. Provided, however, that the same effect shall be given, under this section, to transit permits issued severally by Boards of Health of cities, towns or villages in the State of New York, or by Boards of Health that may be hereafter organized,

pursuant to Laws of the State of New York, or when issued by the Health Officer of any such city, town or village, as to a transit permit issued from this Board, when the death of the person named in the permit shall have occurred in the city, town or village, from which such permit shall have been issued.

And provided that the same effect shall be given, under this section, to a transit permit issued under the laws of the State of New Jersey, as to a transit permit issued from this Board; subject, nevertheless, in every case to all the care, precautions and diligence prescribed by the rules and regulations of this Department. And provided, that the same effect be given, under this section, to a transit permit issued under the laws of the State of Connecticut, as to a transit permit from this Board; subject, nevertheless, in every case, to all the care, precautions and diligence prescribed by the rules and regulations of this Department.

Sec. 164. No person shall retain, expose, or allow to be retained or exposed, the dead body of any human being to the peril or prejudice of the life or health of any person.

Sec. 165. No person shall allow to be retained unburied the dead body of any human being for a longer time than four days or where death has resulted from small-pox, diphtheria (croup), scarlet fever, yellow fever, typhus fever, plague, Asiatic cholera or measles, for a longer time than twenty-four hours, after death of such person, without a permit from the Sanitary Superintendent or an Assistant Sanitary Superintendent, which permit shall specify the length of time during which such body may be retained unburied. This ordinance shall not apply to bodies retained in any public morgue in The City of New York.

Sec. 166. It shall be the duty of every person who has discovered or seen the body of a dead human being, or any part thereof (if there is reason for such person to think that the fact of the death, or the place of such body, or part thereof, is not publicly known), to immediately communicate to the Bureau of Records the fact of such discovery of such body, the place where, and time when, the same was discovered or seen, and where the same is or may be found, and any facts known by which said body may be identified, or the cause of death ascertained.

Cemeteries.

Sec. 167. No interment of the dead body of any human being, or disposition thereof in any tomb, vault, crematory, or cemetery, shall be made within The City of New York, without a permit therefor granted by the Board of Health, nor otherwise than in accordance therewith, and said dead body shall be placed in a metallic or tin-lined box, or a box so constructed as to prevent the issuance of any liquids therefrom; and no sexton or other person shall assist in, or assent to, or allow any such interment, or aid or assist about preparing any grave or place of deposit for any such body, or assist in the cremation of the same, for which such permit has not been given authorizing the same. And it shall be the duty of every person who shall receive any such permit, to preserve and to return the same to this Department, as its regulations may require.

Sec. 168. No new crematory, burying-ground, cemetery, tomb, or vault for dead human bodies shall be established, nor shall the remains of any dead body be placed in any existing burying-ground, vault, tomb, or cemetery in The City of New York, nor any of said receptacles be opened, exposed, or disturbed, except according to the terms of a permit therefor given by the Board of Health, and every body buried in any such place shall be buried to the depth of six feet below the surface of the ground, and four feet below any closely adjacent street, except that in the Borough of Queens a body may be buried to the depth of three feet below the surface of the ground.

No food, beverage or other article for human consumption shall be sold, exposed or offered for sale in any cemetery or burying-ground within The City of New York.

Sec. 169. Every person who acts as a sexton or undertaker in The City of New York, or has the charge or care of any crematory, vault, tomb, burying-ground, or cemetery for the reception of the dead, or where the bodies of any human beings are deposited, shall cause his or her name or residence, and the nature of his or her charge and duties, to be registered with this Department.

Sec. 170. Every sexton or other person having charge of any crematory, burying-ground, cemetery, tomb or vault in The City of New

York, shall, before twelve o'clock on Monday of each week, make return to this Department of the bodies and persons buried or cremated since their last return, and in such form, and specifying such particulars, as the special regulations of this Department shall require.

Coroners.

Sec. 171. At least two hours before the holding of any inquest within The City of New York upon a dead body, the coroner who has been notified of any death, or who may propose or intend to hold such inquest, shall transmit and cause to be delivered to the Bureau of Records written notice containing the following facts so far as known or reported to any such coroner:

1. The fact of any such call for the holding of an inquest, and by whom made, and when and from whom received by the coroner.

2. The place (giving the street and street number, and if there be none, then other particulars) where the body is.

3. What is reported to be the cause of the death.

4.

When and where the death took place, and where the body has since been.

5. When and where he proposes to hold the inquest, giving the street, the street number (or otherwise sufficiently designating such place), and the hour.

6. What physician, or physicians, or other professional person last attended such deceased person, or attended such person within fortyeight hours of such decease.

At any time after the commencement of any inquest, the coroner holding or who should hold, or who held such inquest, shall within twelve hours after the receipt of a written request so to do from the Sanitary Superintendent, answer in writing such of the following or such other questions as may be propounded to him by the said Sanitary Superintendent to the best of his knowledge, information, and belief.

Report of Coroner (here insert Coroner's name) upon the body of (here fill in name or description of deceased), on the (here fill in year, month and day), at (here mention street and number).