state the cause of death, so as to show the course of disease or sequence of causes resulting in the death, giving first the name of the disease causing death (primary cause) and the contributory (secondary) cause, if any, and the duration of each. Indefinite and unsatisfactory terms, denoting only symptoms of disease or conditions resulting from disease, will not be held sufficient for the issuance of a burial or removal permit; and any certificate containing only such terms, as defined by the State registrar, shall be returned to the physician or person making the medical certificate for correction and more definite statement. Causes of death which may be the result of either disease or violence shall be carefully defined; and if from violence, the means of injury shall be stated, and whether (probably) accidental, suicidal, or homicidal. And for deaths of nonresidents, transients or recent residents in hospitals or institutions, the physician shall supply the information required under this head item 18), if he is able to do so, and shall state where, in his opinion, the disease was contracted.

SEC. 7. Section 10 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 10. If the interment, or other disposition of the body is to be made within the State, the wording of the burial or removal permit may be limited to a statement by the registrar, and over his signature, that a satisfactury certificate of death having been filed with him, as required by law, permission is granted to inter, remove, or dispose otherwise of the body, stating the name, age, sex, cause of death, and other necessary details upon the form prescribed by the State registrar: Provided, That the transit permit prescribed by the State board of embalmers may be used in lieu of said burial or removal permit.

SEC. 8. Section 13 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 13. Within 36 hours after the date of each birth there shall be filed with the local registrar of the district in which the birth occurred a certificate of such birth, which certificate shall be upon the form adopted by the State board of health with a view to procuring a full and accurate report with respect to each item of information enumerated in section 14 of this act.

In sparsely settled districts or where there is no direct mail communication with the county seat a reasonable time shall be fixed by the local registrar.

In each case where a physician, or midwife, or person acting as midwife, was in attendance upon the birth, it shall be the duty of such physician to file in accordance herewith the certificate herein contemplated.

In case no physician was in attendance it shall be the duty of the midwife or person acting as midwife to file such certificate.

In every case it shall be the duty of the father or mother of the child, the householder or owner of the premises where the birth occurred or the manager or superintendent of the public or private institution where the birth occurred, each in the order named, within 10 days after the date of such birth, to report to the local registrar the fact of such birth. In such case and in case the physician, midwife, or person acting as midwife, in attendance upon the birth is unable, by diligent inquiry, to obtain any item or items of information contemplated in section 14 of this act, it shall then be the duty of the local registrar to secure from the person so reporting, or from any other person having the required knowledge, such information as will enable him to prepare the certificate of birth herein contemplated, and it shall be the duty of the person reporting the birth or who may be interrogated in relation thereto to answer correctly and to the best of his knowledge all questions put to him by the local registrar which may be calculated to elicit any information needed to make a complete record of the birth as contemplated by said section 14, and it shall be the duty of the informant as to any statement made in accordance herewith to verify such statement by his signature, when requested so to do by the local registrar.

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SEC. 9. Section 14 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 14. The certificate of birth shall contain the following items, which are hereby declared necessary for the legal, social, and sanitary purposes subserved by registration records:

(1) Place of birth, including State, county, township or town, village or city. If in a city, the ward, street, and house number; if in a hospital or other institution, the name of the same to be given, instead of the street and house number.

(2) Full name of child. If the child dies without a name, before the certificate is filed, enter the words "died unnamed." If the living child has not yet been named at the date of filing certificate of birth, the space for "full name of child" is to be left blank, to be filled out subsequently by a supplemental report, as hereinafter provided.

(3) Sex of child.

(4) Whether a twin, triplet, or other plural birth. A separate certificate shall be required for each child in case of plural births.

(5) For plural births, number of each child in order of birth.

(6) Date of birth, including the year, month, and day.

(7) Full name of father.

(8) Residence of father (giving city and State of residence).

(9) Color or race of father.

(10) Age of father at last birthday, in years.

(11) Birthplace of father; at least State or foreign country, if known.

(12) Occupation of father. The occupation to be reported if engaged in any remu nerative employment, with the statement of (a) trade, profession, or particular kind of work; (b) general nature of industry, business or establishment in which employed (or employer).

(13) Maiden name of mother.

(14) Residence of mother (giving city and State of residence).

(15) Color or race of mother.

(16) Age of mother at last birthday, in years.

(17) Birthplace of mother; at least State or foreign country, if known.

(18) Occupation of mother. The occupation to be reported if engaged in any remunerative employment, with the statement of (a) trade, profession, or particular kind of work; (b) general nature of industry, business or establishment in which employed (or employer).

(19) Number of children born to this mother, including present birth. (20) Number of children of this mother living.

(21) The certification of attending physician or midwife as to attendance at birth, including statement of year, month, day (as given in item 7), and hour of birth, and whether the child was born alive or stillborn. This certification shall be signed by the attending physician or midwife, with date of signature and address; if there is no physician or midwife in attendance, then by the father or mother of the child, householder, owner of the premises, or manager or superintendent of public or private institution where the birth occurred, or other competent person, whose duty it shall be to notify the local registrar of such birth, as required by section 13 of this act. (22) Exact date of filing in office of local registrar, attested by his official signature, and registered number of birth, as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 10. Section 18 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 18. The State registrar shall prepare and distribute all forms and blanks for use in registering, recording and preserving the returns, or in otherwise carrying out the purposes of this act; and shall prepare and issue such detailed instructions as may be required to procure the uniform observance of its provisions and the maintenance of a perfect system of registration; and no other forms or blanks shall be used

than those prepared by the State registrar. He shall carefully examine the certificates received monthly from the local registrars, and if any such are incomplete or unsatisfactory he shall require such further information to be supplied as may be necessary to make the record complete and satisfactory. Whenever a certificate is returned by a local registrar other than the registrar of the district in which the deceased resided, in the case of a death, or in which the father and mother of a child reside, in the case of a birth certificate, if the place of residence is a city within this State and having at least 2,500 inhabitants at the last Federal census, the State registrar shall mail to the local registrar of such city of residence, a complete copy of the certificate. And all physicians, midwives, informants, undertakers, clergymen, or judges, and all other persons having knowledge of the facts, are hereby required to supply, upon the forms provided or upon the original certificate, such information as they may possess regarding any birth or death or marriage upon demand of the State registrar, in person, by mail, or through the local registrar: Provided, That no certificate of birth or death or marriage, after its acceptance for registration by the local registrar, and no other record made in pursuance of this act, shall be altered or changed in any respect, except where supplemental information required for statistical purposes is furnished.

(a) Whenever it may be alleged that the facts are not correctly stated in any certificate of birth, death, or marriage, already registered, the local registrar shall require an affidavit under oath to be made by the person asserting the fact, setting forth the changes necessary to make the record correct, and supported by the affidavit of one other credible person having knowledge of the facts. Having received such affidavits, the local registrar shall file them together with an amended certificate and he shall note the fact of the amendment with its date on the margin of the otherwise unaltered original certificate. He shall transmit the original certificate with the affidavits and amended certificate attached when making his regular monthly returns to the State registrar. He shall also retain copies for his files. If the correction relates to a certificate previously returned to the State registrar the local registrar shall forthwith transmit the affidavits to the State registrar. If the correction is first made in the State bureau of vital statistics the State registrar shall transmit a certified copy of the amended certificate to the local registrar.

The State registrar shall further arrange, bind and permanently preserve the certificates in a systematic manner and shall prepare and maintain a comprehensive and continuous card index of all births and deaths registered; said index to be arranged alphabetically, in the case of deaths, by the names of decedents, and in the case of births, by the names of fathers and maiden names of mothers, and in the case of marriages by the names of both grooms and brides. He shall inform all registrars what diseases are to be considered infectious, contagious, or communicable and dangerous to the public health, as decided by the State board of health, in order that when deaths occur from such diseases proper precautions may be taken to prevent their spread. If any cemetery company or association, or any church or historical society or association, or any other company, society or association, or any individual, is in possession of any record of births or deaths which may be of value in establishing the genealogy of any resident of this State, such company, society, association or individual, may file such record or a duly authenticated transcript thereof with the State registrar, and it shall be the duty of the State registrar to preserve such record or transcript and to make a record and index thereof in such form as to facilitate the finding of any information contained therein. Such record and index shall be open to inspection by the public, subject to such reasonable conditions as the State registrar may prescribe. If any person desires a transcript of any record filed in accordance herewith, the State registrar shall furnish the same upon application, together with a certificate that it is a true copy of such record as filed in his office.

SEC. 11. Section 21 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 21. The State or local registrar shall forthwith upon request supply to any applicant a certified copy of the record of any birth or death or marriage registered under provisions of this act, for the making and certification of which he shall be entitled to a fee of 50 cents, to be paid by the applicant. And any such copy of the record of a birth or death or marriage when properly certified by the State or local registrar, shall be prima facie evidence in all courts and places of the facts therein stated. For any search of the files and records when no certified copy is made the State registrar or local registrar shall be entitled to a fee of 50 cents for each hour or fractional hour of time of search, such fee to be paid by the applicant. The State registrar shall keep a true and correct account of all fees by him received under these provisions, and such money so received by the State registrar shall be deposited with the State treasurer, who shall credit the amount to the fund provided and to be used for the payment of the traveling and contingent expenses of the State board of health, and the money so collected by the local registrar shall be paid by him into the county or city treasury, as the case may be: Provided, That the local registrar shall, upon request of any parent or guardian, supply, without fee, a certificate limited to a statement as to the date of birth of any child when the same shall be necessary for admission to school, or for the purpose of securing employment: And provided further, That the United States Census Bureau may obtain, without expense to the State, transcripts of births and deaths without payment of the fees herein prescribed. (b) If, upon such search it shall develop that for any cause any birth or death, or marriage, occurring in this State was not registered in conformity with the provisions of law in effect at the time when such birth or death or marriage occurred by the filing of the certificate therefor with the local registrar within a period of 1 year from the date of the event, any person beneficially interested in establishing of record the fact of such birth or death or marriage may petition the superior court of the county in which such birth or death or marriage is alleged to have occurred for an order judicially establishing the fact of such birth or death or marriage. Such petition shall be verified and shall contain all the data necessary to enable the court, upon hearing the same, to determine the fact of such birth or death or marriage upon the proofs adduced in behalf of the petitioner at the hearing thereof. A copy of such petition shall be served upon the local registrar of vital statistics, and also upon the district attorney of the county in which such birth or death or marriage is alleged to have occurred, and either of said officials shall have the right in his discretion to appear at such hearing and oppose the making of such order. Such hearing shall be had at such time as the court may appoint, not less than 10 days subsequent to the date of filing such petition, and notice thereof must be given by publication for the same time and in the same manner required by law to be given prior to the hearing of the petition for the admission to probate of any will, or the issuance of letters testamentary or of administration thereon.

If, upon such hearing, the proofs of the allegations of the petition are established, to the satisfaction of the court, the court may make an order determining that such birth, death or marriage did in fact occur in such county and at the time shown by the proofs adduced upon such hearing.

Such order must be made in the form and upon the blank prescribed and furnished by the State registrar and but one birth, death, or marriage may be included therein. And said order shall become effective upon the filing of a certified copy thereof with the local registrar of vital statistics, and the delivery therewith for transmittal to the State registrar of a standard certificate containing such facts and signatures as are obtainable, and upon the filing of a certified copy of said order with the State registrar.

SEC. 12. Section 23 of said act is hereby amended to read as follows:

SEC. 23. Under the supervision and direction of the State registrar, each local registrar is hereby charged with the strict and thorough enforcement of the provisions of this act in his registration district. He shall make an immediate report to the State registrar of any violation of this law coming to his knowledge, by observation or upon complaint of any person, or otherwise.

The State registrar is hereby charged with the thorough and efficient execution of the provisions of this act in every part of the State, and is hereby granted supervisory power over local registrars, deputy local registrars, and subregistrars, to the end that all of its requirements shall be uniformly complied with. The State registrar, either personally or by an accredited representative, shall have authority to investigate cases of irregularity or violation of law. When the State board of health or its secretary shall deem it necessary, it or he shall report cases of violation of any of the provisions of this act to the prosecuting attorney of the county, with a statement of the facts and circumstances; and when any such case is reported to him by the State board of health or its secretary, the prosecuting attorney shall forthwith initiate and promptly follow up the necessary court proceedings against the person or corporation responsible for the alleged violation of law. And upon request of the State board of health or its secretary, the attorney general shall assist in the enforcement of the provisions of this act.

Hotels Sanitary Regulation-Bedding-Ventilation-Individual Towels. (Ch. 228, Act May 11, 1917.)

SECTION 1. Every building or structure, kept as, used as, maintained as, or advertised as, or held out to the public to be, a place where sleeping or rooming accommodations are furnished to the public, or any part of the public, whether with or without meals, shall, for the purpose of this act, be deemed to be a hotel, and whenever the word "hotel" shall occur in this act, it shall be deemed to include lodging house and moming house.

SEC. 2. All bedding, bedclothes, or bedcovering, including mattresses, quilts, blankets, sheets, pillows or comforters, used in any hotel in this State must be kept clean and free from all filth or dirt: Provided, That no bedding, bedclothes or bedcovering, including mattresses, quilts, blankets, sheets, pillows or comforters, shall be used which is worn out or unfit for use by human beings according to the true intent and meaning of this act.

SEC. 3. Any room in any hotel in this State which is or shall be infected with vermin or bedbugs or similar things, shall be thoroughly fumigated, disinfected and renovated until such vermin or bedbugs or other similar things are entirely exterminated.

SEC. 4. Every room in any hotel in this State used for sleeping purposes, must be kept free from any and every kind of dirt or filth of whatsoever nature, and the walls, floors, ceilings and doors of every such room shall be kept free from dirt.

SEC. 5. Every room in any hotel, used for sleeping purposes, shall have devices, such as a window or transom, so constructed as to allow for proper and a sufficient amount of ventilation in each such room.

SEC. 6. Every bed, for the accommodation of any person or persons or guests, kept or used in any hotel in this State, must be provided with a sufficient supply of clean bedding and must be provided with sheets at least 81 inches wide and 98 inches long: Provided, however, That on every single bed there shall be sheets at least 50 inches wide and 98 inches long. Every bed shall be supplied with clean sheets and pillow slips as often as assigned to a different person.

SEC. 7. Every hotel, within this State, having a public washstand or washbowl, where different persons gather to wash themselves, must keep a sufficient supply of