7. The birthplace of father, at least State or foreign country, if known.

8. The occupation of father 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).

9. The birthplace of mother, at least State or foreign country, if known.

10. The occupation of mother 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).

11. The register number and exact date of filing in the office of the clerk of courts shall be attested by his official signature.

REG. NO. 2. Supplemental birth report.—That when any certificate of a living child is presented without the statement of the given name, then the clerk of courts shall make out and deliver to the parents of the child a special blank for the supplemental report of the given name of the child, which shall be filled out as directed and returned to the clerk of courts as soon as the child shall have beeen named.

REG. NO. 3. Permit for burial or removal.-The body of any person whose death occurs in this State or which shall be found dead therein shall not be interred, deposited in a vault or tomb, cremated, or otherwise disposed of or removed from or into any registration district or be temporarily held pending further disposition more than 72 hours after death, unless a permit for burial, removal, or other disposition shall have been properly issued by the justice of the peace of the registration district in which the death occurred or the body was found. And no such burial or removal permit shall be issued by any registrar until, whenever practicable, a complete and satisfactory certificate of death has been filed with him as hereinafter provided: Provided, That when a dead body is transported from outside the State into a registration district for burial the transit or removal permit issued in accordance with the law and health regulations of the place where the death occurred shall be accepted by the justice of the peace of the district into which the body has been transported for burial or other disposition as a basis upon which he may issue a local burial permit; he shall note upon the face of the burial permit the fact that the body was shipped in for interment and give the actual place of death. REG. No. 4. Stillbirths.—A stillborn child shall be registered as a birth and also as a death, and separate certificates of both birth and death shall be filed with the clerk of courts, in the usual form and manner, the certificate of birth to contain in place of the name of the child the word "stillbirth": Provided, That a certificate of birth and a certificate of death shall not be required for a child that has not advanced to the fifth month of uterogestation. The medical certificate of the cause of the death shall be signed by the attending physician, if any, and shall state the cause of death as "stillbirth," with the cause of the stillbirth, if known, whether a premature birth, and, if born prematurely, the period of uterogestation, in months, if known; and a burial or removal permit of the prescribed form shall be required. Midwives shall not sign the certificate of death for stillborn children; but such cases, and stillbirths occurring without attendance of either physician or midwife, shall be treated as deaths without medical attendance. REG. NO. 5. Record of death forms.-That the certificate of death shall contain the following items, which are hereby declared necessary for the legal, social, and sanitary purposes subserved by registration records:

1. Place of death, including State, county, township, village, or city. If in a city the ward, street, and house number; if in a hospital or other insti

tution, the name of the same to be given instead of the street and house number. If in an industrial camp, the name of the camp to be given.

2. Full name of decedent. If an unnamed child, the surname preceded by "unnamed."

3. Sex.

4. Color or race-as black, white, mulatto (or other negro descent), Indian, Chinese, Japanese, or other.

5. Conjugal condition-as single, married, widowed, or divorced.

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

7. Age, in years, months, and days. If less than one day, the hours and minutes.

8. Occupation. The occupation to be reported of any person, male or female, who had 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).

9. Birthplace; at least the State or foreign country, if known.

10. Name of father.

11. Birthplace of father; at least State or foreign country, if known. 12. Maiden name of mother.

13. Birthplace of mother; at least the State or foreign country, if known. 14. Signature and address of the informant.

15. Official signature of the registrar, with the date when certificate was filed, and register number.

16. Date of death; year, month, and day.

17. Certification as to medical attendance on decedent, fact and time of death, time last seen alive, and the cause of death with contributory (secondary) cause or complication, if any, and duration of each, and whether attributed to dangerous or insanitary conditions of employment; signature and address of physician or official making the medical certificate.

18. Length of residence (for inmates of hospitals and other institutions; transients or recent residents) at place of death and in the State, together with the place where the disease was contracted, if not at the place of death, and former or usual residence.

19. Place of burial or removal; date of burial.

20. Signature and address of undertaker or person acting as such.

The personal and statistical particulars (Items 1 to 13) shall be authenticated by the signature of the informant, who may be any competent person acquainted with the facts.

The statement of facts relating to the disposition of the body shall be signed by the undertaker or person acting as such.

REG. NO. 6. Undertaker's duties.-That the undertaker, or person acting as undertaker, shall file the certificate of death with the justice of the peace of the district in which the death occurred and obtain a burial or removal permit prior to any disposition of the body. He shall obtain the required personal and statistical particulars from the person best qualified to supply them, over the signature and address of his informant. He shall then present the certificate to the attending physician, if any, or to the health officer or coroner, for the medical certificate of the cause of death and other particulars necessary to complete the record. And he shall then state the facts required relative to the date and place of burial or removal, over his signature and with his address, and present the completed certificate to the justice of the peace in order to obtain a permit for burial, removal, or other disposition of the body. The undertaker shall deliver the burial permit to the person in charge of the place of burial before interring or otherwise disposing of the body, or shall attach the

removal permit to the box containing the corpse when shipped by any transportation company, the said permit to accompany the corpse to its destination, where, if within the State of South Dakota, it shall be delivered to the person in charge of the place of burial.

REG. No. 7. Undertakers keep records and report.-Every person, firm, or corporation selling a casket, shall keep a record showing the name of the purchaser, purchaser's post office address, and name of deceased, date of death, and place of burial of deceased, which record shall be open to the inspection of the director of vital statistics at all times. On the first day of each month the person, firm, or corporation selling caskets shall report to the director of vital statistics each sale for the preceding month on a blank provided for that purpose: Provided, however, That no person, firm, or corporation selling caskets to dealers or undertakers only shall be required to keep such record, nor shall such report be required from undertakers when they have direct charge of the disposition of the dead body.

Every person, firm, or corporation selling a casket at retail, and not having charge of the disposition of the body, shall inclose within the casket a notice furnished by the director of vital statistics calling attention to the requirements of the law, a blank certificate of death, and the rules and regulations of the State board of health concerning the burial or other disposition of a dead body.

REG. NO. 8. Permission to remove or inter.-That 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 satisfactory 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 director of vital statistics.

REG. NO. 9. Sextons or others to require burial or removal permits. That the person in charge of any premises on which interments are made shall not inter or permit the interment or other disposition of any body unless it is accompanied by a burial permit or a removal or transit permit, as herein provided. And such persons shall indorse upon the permit the date of the interment, over his signature, and shall return all permits so indorsed to the clerk of courts of his district within 10 days from the date of interment. He shall keep a record of all bodies interred or otherwise disposed of on the premises under his charge, in each case stating the name of the deceased person, place of death, date of burial or disposal, and name and address of the undertaker, which record shall at all times be open to official inspect on: Provided, That the undertaker, or person acting as such, when burying a body in a cemetery or burial ground having no person in charge, shall sign the burial or removal permit, giving the date of burial, and shall write across the face of the permit the words "No person in charge," and file the burial or removal permit within 10 days with the justice of the peace of the district in which the cemetery is located.

REG. NO. 10. Records in private or public institutions.-That all superintendents or managers, or other persons in charge of hospitals, almshouses, lying-in or other institutions, public or private, to which persons resort for treatment of diseases, confinement, or are committed by process of law, shall make a record of all the persons and statistical particulars relative to the inmates in their institution at the date of approval of this regulation, which are required in the forms of the certificates, as directed by the director of vital statistics; and thereafter such record shall be, by them, made for all future inmates at the time of their admittance. And in case of persons admitted or

committed for treatment of disease, the physician in charge shall specify for entry in the record the nature of the disease, and where, in his opinion, it was contracted. The personal particulars and information required by this section shall be obtained from the individual himself if it is practicable to do so; and when they can not be so obtained they shall be obtained in as complete manner as possible from relatives, friends, or other persons acquainted with the facts. REG. NO. 11. Preserving church or historical society records.-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 director of vital statistics, and it shall be the duty of the director of vital statistics 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 director of vital statistics may prescribe. If any person desires a transcript of any record filed in accordance herewith, the director of vital statistics shall furnish the same upon application, together with a certificate that is a true copy of such record as filed in his office.

REG. NO. 12. Clerk of courts-Duty.—That each county superintendent of vital statistics shall supply blank forms of certificates to such persons as require them. Each county superintendent of vital statistics shall carefully examine each certificate of birth or death when presented for record in order to ascertain whether or not it has been made out in accordance with the provisions of these regulations and the instructions of the director of vital statistics; and if any certificate of death is incomplete or unsatisfactory it shall be his duty to call attention to the defects in the return and to withhold the burial or removal permit until such defects are corrected. All certificates, either of birth or death, shall be written legibly, in durable black ink, and no certificate shall be held to be complete and correct that does not supply all of the items of information called for therein, or satisfactorily explain for their omission. If the certificate of death is properly executed and complete, he shall then issue a burial or removal permit to the undertaker: Provided, That in case the death occurred from some disease which is held by the State board of health to be infectious, contagious, and communicable, and dangerous to the public health, no permit for the removal or other disposition of the body shall be issued by the registrar, except under such conditions as may be prescribed by the State board of health. If a certificate of birth is incomplete, the county superintendent of vital statistics shall immediately notify the informant, and require him to supply the missing items of information if they can be obtained. He shall number the certificates of birth and death consecutively in two separate series beginning with number 1 for the first birth and the first death in each calendar year, and sign his name as registrar in attest of the date of filing in his office. He shall make a complete and accurate copy of each birth and death certificate registered by him in a record book supplied by the director of vital statistics to be preserved permanently in his office as the local record, in such manner as directed by the director of vital statistics, and he shall on the tenth day of each month transmit to the director of vital statistics all original certificates registered by him for the preceding month. And if no births or deaths occur in any month he shall, on the tenth day of the following month, report that fact to the director of vital statistics on a card provided for that purpose.

VIRGINIA.

Venereal Diseases-Reports of Cases-Instructions, Circular of Information, and Copy of Law to Be Given Patient-Powers and Duties of Health Officers-Examination of Suspected Cases-Quarantine-Reports by Druggists-Unlawful for Infected Person to Expose Others to Infection-Issuance of Certificates of Freedom from Venereal Diseases-Information and Reports to Be Confidential. (Ch. 364, Act Mar. 20, 1920.)

1. That syphilis, gonorrhea, and chancroid, hereinafter designated venereal diseases, are hereby declared to be contagious, infectious, communicable, and dangerous to the public health.

2. Any physician or other person who makes a diagnosis in or treats a case of syphilis, gonorrhea, or chancroid, and every superintendent or manager of a hospital, dispensary, or charitable or penal institution, in which there is a case of venereal disease, shall report such case immediately in writing to the State board of health, stating the name and address, or the office number, age, sex, color, and occupation of the diseased person, the date of onset of the disease, and probable source of the infection, provided that the name and address of diseased person need not be stated, unless an inmate of a penal institution, except in those cases in which the attending physician knows or has good reason to suspect that a person having a venereal disease is conducting himself, or herself, in such a manner as to expose any other person to infection, when he shall notify the State board of health and the local health officer of the name and address of the diseased person and the essential facts in the case. The report shall be inclosed in a sealed envelope and sent to the State board of health, as above provided.

3. It shall be the duty of every physician and of every person who examines or treats a person having syphilis, gonorrhea, or chancroid to instruct him in measures for preventing the spread of such diseases, and to inform him of the necessity for treatment until cured and to hand him a copy of the circular of information and a copy of this act, both of which are obtainable for this purpose from the State board of health.

4. (a) All State, city, county, and other health officers shall use every available means to ascertain the existence of and to investigate all cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, or chancroid, within their several territorial jurisdictions, and to ascertain the sources of such infections. All health officers are hereby empowered and directed to make such examinations of persons reasonably suspected of having syphilis, gonorrhea, or chancroid as may be necessary for the carrying out of this act.

(b) Owing to the prevalence of such diseases amongst vagrants, prostitutes, keepers, inmates, employees, and frequenters of houses of ill fame, prostitution, and assignation, persons "not of good fame," persons guilty of fornication, adultery, lewd and lascivious conduct, and illicit cohabitation are to be considered and are hereby declared to be reasonably suspected of having syphilis, gonorrhea, or chancroid, and no person convicted of any of said charges shall be released until examined for such venereal diseases by the proper health officer, his deputy or assistants or agents.