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structed that they can not be opened readily by anyone except those having charge of them. Nothing but ice and water shall be placed in receptacles used for the storage of drinking water. The receptacle for drinking water shall be kept thoroughly clean at all times and shall be drained and flushed at car cleaning terminals.

Persons employed to place ice and water in the receptacles must have clean hands and must rinse the ice immediately before depositing it in the vessel.

When a water-borne disease has developed in epidemic form in a municipality, water from such place for car tanks shall not be used without the approval of the State board of health.

RULE 5. The use of the common or public drinking cup is prohibited on all public conveyances and in waiting rooms.

RULE 6. All public conveyances, including toilet rooms therein, shall be kept in a reasonably clean condition at all times. Dry sweeping and dusting of occupied conveyances is strictly prohibited.

RULE 7. At cleaning terminals all passenger equipment shall be thoroughly cleaned and aired, and after such cleaning the hoppers, urinals, and toilet floors shall be mopped with a 14 per cent solution of formalin.

RULE 8. Upon arrival at cleaning terminals, sleeping cars shall be cleaned as follows:

The windows, doors, and ventilators shall be opened; the upper births let down; the seat bottoms and backs lifted out; the mattresses, blankets, pillows, curtains, etc., loosely arranged for airing. If the weather permits, the removable articles mentioned above shall be taken out of the car, dusted and aired in the open, and exposed to the sunlight for a time. The rest of the cleaning of the car shall be carried out as directed for day coaches under rule 7.

RULE 9. Thorough cleansing and renovation takes the place of fumigation. RULE 10. In all public conveyances the food boxes, refrigerators, lockers, drawers, and cupboards shall be kept thoroughly clean at all times.

RULE 11. The use of the common roller towel on common carriers and in waiting rooms is prohibited.

RULE 12. All toilet rooms, water-closets, urinals, and toilet appliances in stations shall be cleaned daily, and when vaults or surface receptacles are used in connection with closets at stations, such vaults or surface receptacles shall receive at least weekly treatment with fresh lime or some other agent approved by the local health officer.

Births and Deaths-Registration—Burial and Removal Permits. (Reg. Bd. of H., Nov. 8, 1920.)

REG. 69. Division of vital statistics.-RULE 1. The State board of health is authorized by law to make such rules as are necessary "to insure the faithful registration" of all births and deaths in the incorporated towns, cities, and counties, and in the central bureau of vital statistics.

RULE 2. The secretary of the State board of health is ex officio State registrar of vital statistics and has general supervision over all local registrars and the central bureau of vital statistics. The State board of capitol managers is required by law to provide suitable apartments for the said bureau, including a properly equipped fireproof vault and filing cases.

RULE 3. Each city, each incorporated town, and each county exclusive of such cities and towns constitutes a registration district.

RULE 4. Any local registrar who fails or neglects to discharge efficiently the duties of his office or who fails to make prompt and complete returns of births and deaths to the State registrar will be promptly removed from his office.

within 250 yards of a dwelling, unless there s health officer of said District the written cons fourths of the real property within 250 yards of s for shall have been issued by said health officer.

A butcher shop in which animals are killed or at retail on the premises may be established wh missioners of the District of Columbia, the locatio ment will not prove detrimental to health, depreci or constitute a nuisance to the neighborhood in w for shall have been issued by the health officer

Any person violating any of the provisions o conviction thereof, be punished for the first offen $100 and for a second or any subsequent offens $300, or by imprisonment in the workhouse for by both such fine and imprisonment in the discre Buildings to Be Used in Conduct of Offensive Tr (Reg. Commissioners, July

That the building regulations of the District of by striking out the first paragraph of section 168 the following:

SEC. 168a. No building to be used as an abb shop, soap or candle factory, or bone-boiling or offensive or unhealthy odors or gases are generat until there shall have first been obtained from th of Columbia a permit for the location or cond provided in Article XXa of the police regulations

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hold an inquest when necessary to determine the facts required by law. A certificate of death occurring without medical attendance must be signed by the coroner, who shall furnish such information as may be required by the State registrar properly to classify the death.

When a death results from an injury or accident within three months following date of such injury or accident, the coroner of the county where the death occurs must be notified before the body of the deceased is moved or prepared for burial.

RULE 9. The undertaker, or person acting as undertaker, or person or firm furnishing the box, coffin, or casket in which to bury a human body shall be held responsible for obtaining and filing the certificate of death with the local registrar and securing a burial or removal permit prior to any disposition of the body. In case of death of any person whose identity is uncertain or whose name can not be learned prior to burial or other disposition of the body the undertaker must file with the death certificate a detailed description of the deceased, including approximate weight, height, age, sex, race, color of hair and eyes, clothing, and any scars, deformity, or other distinguishing marks which might aid in a later identification. If possible the undertaker must also file with the death certificate of an unidentified person a photograph, preferably taken of the deceased before death.

The local registrar shall refuse to issue a burial or removal permit when the death certificate does not contain the essential information required by law or when he believes the case should be investigated by the coroner.

The undertaker must deliver the burial permit to the sexton or person in charge of the place of burial before interring the body, or shall attach the transit permit containing the removal permit to the box containing the corpse when shipped by a transportation company. If the destination is within the State of Colorado, the local registrar where interment is to be made shall take up the transit and removal permit and issue a burial permit.

RULE 10. If the interment or other disposition of the body is to be made within this State, the wording of the burial permit may be limited to a very brief statement by the local registrar as detailed upon the form prescribed by the State registrar.

RULE 11. No person in charge where interments are made shall permit burial or other disposition of any body unless accompanied by a burial, removal, or transit permit.

The person in charge of the burial ground shall write upon the permit the date of burial, and within 10 days forward it to the local registrar. The sexton must keep a record showing name of the deceased person, place of death, date of burial, and name and address of the undertaker. Violation of the provisions of this provision is a misdemeanor under the law.

RULE 12. All births must be immediately registered in the district where they

occur.

RULE 13. Within 10 days after date of birth the attending physician or midwife must file with the local registrar for the registration district in which the birth occurred a birth certificate completely filled out as required by the State registrar.

If there was no attending physician or midwife, then the father, mother, nurse, owner of premises, superintendent of the institution in which the birth occurred or other person knowing that a birth has occurred and believing that it may not have been reported, must report the birth to the local registrar, who shall immediately secure the necessary information and signatures to make a proper certificate of birth.

RULE 14. All birth certificates must be completely filled out in detail as indicated by the blank forms furnished by the State registrar to all local registrars. When the birth did not occur in a city or town, the direction and distance from the nearest post office must be stated.

It shall be the duty of all local registrars to require all physicians, midwives, coroners, and undertakers to write legibly and with pen and ink when filling out or signing birth and death certificates.

A certificate illegibly written or written with any kind of a pencil is in violation of the law and will not be approved by the State registrar.

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RULE 15. When the "given name of a living child does not appear in the birth certificate, the local registrar must deliver to the proper person a blank upon which a supplemental report may later be made, giving the full name of the child.

RULE 16. Every practicing physician, midwife, and undertaker must register his name, address, and occupation in the registration district in which he lives, with the local registrar, who shall supply each with a copy of the law relating to registration of vital statistics, together with the rules prepared by the State registrar relative to its enforcement.

Within 30 days after the close of each calendar year each local registrar is required by law to report to the State registrar the name and address of every practicing physician and midwife registered and resident in his registration district during all or any part of the preceding calendar year.

RULE 17. All superintendents, managers, or other persons in charge of State, county, city, public, or private hospitals, sanitariums, almshouses, lying-in institutions, places for care of the insane, or any institutions to which persons resort for treatment of disease or injury or confinement, or to which persons are committed by process of law, must keep a record of "personal and statistical particulars relative to the inmates of their institutions" in a form as directed by the State registrar.

RULE 18. All physicians, midwives, informants, undertakers, and all other persons having knowledge of the facts are "required to furnish such information as they may possess regarding any birth or death upon demand of the State registrar in person, by mail, or through the local registrar." (See sec. 252.)

RULE 19. In case of death from a communicable disease or when death has occurred without medical attendance, the local registrar must not issue a burial or removal permit until he is satisfied that there has been strict compliance with all laws and regulations covering such matters.

Each birth and death certificate must show the date of filing with the local registrar and its registered number, beginning with the first day of each calendar year. Birth and death certificates must be kept in two separate series. Each registrar must make a complete copy of every birth and death certificate upon a form identical with the original certificate to be preserved as a permanent local record.

On the 5th of each month the local registrar must forward to the State registrar the original birth and death certificates for the preceding month, along with a monthly report card showing the number of birth and death certificates recorded. Should no births or deaths occur during any month, the local registrar must forward to the State registrar the regular monthly report card showing that fact. "

RULE 20. The attending physician at time of death of any person must deliver to the proper person the required death certificate or be guilty of a misdemeanor.

RULE 21. Any physician or midwife in attendance upon a case of confinement or any person charged with responsibility for reporting births who shall neglect or refuse to report as explained in rule 13, will be guilty of a misde

meanor.

RULE 22. Any undertaker, person, or firm furnishing a box, casket, or coffin in which to bury a human body, or any person in any manner acting as an undertaker, who violates the requirements as stated in rule 9, will be guilty of a misdemeanor.

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RULE 23. Any registrar, deputy registrar, or subregistrar who shall refuse, fail, or neglect to enforce the registration law and rules in his district, or who shall neglect or refuse to perform any of the duties required by the law or by the instructions and directions of the State registrar, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

RULE 24. "Any person who shall willfully alter any certificate of birth or death on file in the office of the local registrar shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor."

RULE 25. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of the registration law, or shall willfully neglect or refuse to perform any duties imposed upon him by the registration law, or who shall furnish false information to a physician, midwife, undertaker, or informant, for the purpose of making incorrect certification of births or deaths, will be guilty of a misdemeanor.

RULE 26. Any transportation company or common carrier transporting or accepting through its agents or employees for transportation the body of a deceased person without an accompanying permit is guilty of a misdemeanor: Provided, That in case the death occurred outside of this State and the body is accompanied by a certificate of death or a burial or removal or transit permit issued according to law where the death occurred, such certificate or permit will authorize the transportation of the body into or through this State.

In case of the death of any person while upon a railway train within this State, the transportation company, without special permission from the State registrar, must deliver the body of the deceased to an undertaker in the first town or city where an undertaker is available, and if there be no physician in attendance upon the train at the time of the death notify immediately the coroner of the county in which the death occurred."

RULE 27. Local registrars must make immediate report of any violations of the law and rules. All registrars, when requested by the State registrar, are required by law to aid in the investigation of any irregularities.

The attorney general and all district attorneys on request of the State registrar are required under the law to aid in enforcing the law by whatever legal means may be necessary.

Dead Bodies-Transportation. (Reg. Bd. of H., Nov. 8, 1920.)

REG. 68. Transportation of the dead.-RULE 1. The documentary authority required by the Colorado State Board of Health for transportation of a dead body by a common carrier shall include a duplicate copy of the original death certificate, a removal permit by the local registrar, a certificate by the shipping undertaker, and a paster to be filled out by the transportation company.

The blank form prepared by the State registrar shall be used and must be completely filled out. Each body for transportation must be embalmed by an embalmer holding a license by authority of the Colorado State Board of Embalming Examiners: Provided, That embalming may not be required when destination is within this State and will be reached within 30 hours after death.

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