thereof, or to the mother thereof without the consent of the said father or reputed father to the use of his name, nor the use of the name of the mother without her consent to the use of her name.

§ 8. That in case of any death occurring without medical attendance, it shall be the duty of the undertaker or person acting as such to notify the local registrar and the coroner of such death, and in such cases, if no suspicion of death from violence, casualty or undue means exists, the local registrar may make the certificate and return from the statement of relatives or other persons having adequate knowledge of the facts: Provided, further, that if the registrar or coroner has reason to believe that the death may have been due to some cause which under the law is subject to investigation by the coroner the death shall then be referred to the coroner or other proper officer for his investigation and certification. The coroner or other proper officer whose duty it is to hold an inquest on the body of any deceased person, and to make the certificate of death required for a burial permit, shall state in his certificate the name of the disease causing death, or if from external causes, (1) the means of death; and (2) whether (probably accidental, suicidal, or homicidal; and shall, in any case, furnish such information as may be required by the State Board of Health in order to properly classify the death.

§ 9. That the undertaker or person acting as undertaker shall be responsible for obtaining and filing the certificate of death with the local. or sub-registrar of the district in which the death occurred, and for securing a burial or removal permit prior to any disposition of the body. He shall obtain the personal and statistical particulars required from the nearest of kin, or 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 coroner, if so directed by the local or sub-registrar, for the medical or coroner's certificate of the cause of death and other particulars necessary to complete the record. He shall then state the facts required relative to the date and place of burial over his signature and with his address, and present the completed certificate to the local or sub-registrar within the time limit for the issuance of a burial or removal permit; provided, that when the body is the subject of an inquest or an investigation by the coroner, the personal and statistical particulars required herein shall be obtained by the coroner at the time of the inquest or investigation, and over the signature and address of the informant: Provided, further, that for deaths in hospitals and institutions, the personal and statistical particulars required herein shall be furnished by the physician or person in charge of such hospitals or institutions, who shall obtain the information from the records of said hospital or institution, as made and provided for in section 16 of this Act.

The undertaker shall deliver the burial permit to the person in charge of the place where the body is to be buried or otherwise disposed of before the interment or other disposal of the body, or, when the body is shipped by any common carrier, the transit or removal permit must accompany the corpse to its destination, in accordance with the official rules of the State Board of Health governing transportation of the dead, and said permit shall be delivered to the person to whom the body is con

signed, or to the person in charge of the cemetery or other place where interment or other disposition is to be made.

§ 10. That if the interment or other disposition of the body is to be made within the State, the wording of the burial permit may be limited to a statement by the registrar and over his signature that permission is granted to inter, remove or otherwise dispose of the deceased, stating the name, age sex, cause of death and other necessary details upon the form prescribed by the State Board of Health.

§ 11. That no dead human body or part thereof shall be received by any person in charge of any premises in which interments and other disposition of human bodies are made unless said body or part thereof is accompanied by a burial permit, issued by any local registrar as herein provided. Each person in charge of any burial ground or other place of disposition of dead human bodies shall keep a record in a book provided for the purpose, of each interment or other disposition of a human body made in the cemetery or other place of disposal in his charge. Such register or record shall be in a form prescribed by the State Board of Health and shall at all times be open to the inspection of said Board, the local registrar or their duly authorized representatives. Each person. in charge of any burial ground or other place of disposition of a human body shall file the burial or removal permit with the local registrar of the district in which the interment is made within three days from the date of receipt of such body, and he shall immediately report any violations or attempted violations of this Act to the local registrar of his district: 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 three days with the registrar of the district in which the cemetery is located; and provided, further, that when the death occurs in another registration district in the State of Illinois that the local registrar of the district in which the body is buried or otherwise disposed of, shall within three days, return all such burial or removal permits to the local registrar issuing same, after having stated on the back of the permit any departure from the provisions of the permit as to place of burial or otherwise, and the local registrar of the district in which the death occurred shall note any such departure on the original death or stillbirth certificate and on the copy or copies thereof.

8 12. That all births that occur in the State shall be immediately registered in the districts in which they occur, as hereinafter provided. It shall be the duty of the attending physician or midwife to file a certificate of birth, properly and completely filled out, and in a form prescribed by the State Board of Health, with the local or sub-registrar of the district in which the birth occurred within ten days after the date of birth. If there be no attending physician or midwife, then it shall be the duty of the father, or in case of death or absence of the father, it shall be the duty of the mother, and in the event of the death or disability of the mother, then it shall be the duty of the householder where the birth occurred, to file such certificate of birth with the local registrar within ten days after such birth; or if the birth occurred in a public or

private institution, it shall be the duty of the manager or superintendent of such institution to file with the local or sub-registrar a certificate of such birth, properly and completely filled out as required by this Act: Provided, that in order to prevent blindness and otherwise conserve the health and life of infants, the State Board of Health on request of any health officer of any registration district, shall direct and require that persons, residing in such district, charged with the duty of reporting births, shall file with the local registrar such reports within twenty-four hours, and for this purpose, a short form on postal card may be used: Provided, further, that said brief postal card report shall not take the place of the complete report provided for in this Act, and that no fees shall be paid to registrars, deputy registrars or sub-registrars for receiving, handling, or recording such postal form reports.

13. That the certificate of birth shall contain at least the items of the standard certificate of birth as approved and adopted by the United States Bureau of the Census: Provided, that the certificate of birth and record thereof required by this Act shall not, in the case of an illegitimate child, contain the name of [or] other identifying fact, relating to the father or reputed father or to the mother thereof, without the consent of said father or reputed father to the use of his name, nor the use of the name of the mother without her consent to the use of her name.

§14. That when any certificate of birth of a living child is presented without the statement of the given name, then the local or subregistrar 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 such registrar as soon as the child shall have been named.

Where the birth of a child born prior to the taking effect of this Act has not been recorded, or in case of failure to report any birth which occurs subsequent to the taking effect of this Act within the time prescribed herein, such report may be received and filed by the local registrar, for the purposes and uses of this Act, when such report is accompanied by affidavits of the father or mother of the child, or if neither father nor mother of the child is living, of the nearest of kin or guardian.

§ 15. That every physician, midwife, undertaker and sexton shall, without delay register his or her name, address and occupation with the local registrar of the district in which he or she resides, or may hereafter establish a residence, and shall thereupon be supplied by the local registrar with a copy of this Act, together with such rules and regulations as may be prepared by the State Board of Health relative to its enforcement. Within thirty days after the close of each calendar year, each local registrar shall make a return to the State Board of Health of all physicians, midwives, undertakers and sextons who have been registered in his district during the whole or any part of the preceding calendar year: Provided, that no fee or any compensation shall be charged by local registrars to physicians, midwives, undertakers or sextons for registering their names under this section or for making returns thereof to the State Board of Health.

§ 16. 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 personal and statistical particulars relative to the inmates of their institutions at the date of taking effect of this Act, that are required in the forms of the certificates prescribed by the State Board of Health; and thereafter such record shall be, by them, made for all future inmates at the time of their admission. And in case of persons admitted or committed for medical or surgical treatment of disease or injury, the physician in charge shall specify for entry in the records the nature of the disease or injury, and where, in his opinion, it was contracted or received. The personal particulars and information required shall be obtained form the individual himself if it is practicable, to do so, and when they cannot be so obtained, they shall be secured in as complete a manner as possible from relatives, friends or other persons acquainted with the facts.

§ 17. That the State Board of Health shall prescribe all forms of reports of births, stillbirths and deaths and shall prepare, print and supply all local registrars with copies of all blanks and forms sufficient to carry out the provisions 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 maintenace of a perfect system of registration and no other blanks shall be used than those supplied by the State Board of Health: Provided, that in any city, incorporated town or village, the local department or board of health or the city clerk, as the case may be, may have printed blank forms bearing such items of record or instructions as may be necessary for the needs and purposes of carrying out the provisions of local ordinances, not in conflict with the forms prescribed or approved by the State Board of Health: And, provided, further, that the State Board of Health shall not supply the short form on postal cards for the reporting of births, mentioned in section 12 of this Act.

The State Board of Health shall carefully examine the certificates received monthly from the local registrars and of any such are incomplete or unsatisfactory shall require such further information to be furnished as may be necessary to make the records complete and satisfactory. All physicians, midwives, coroners, superintendents of hospitals or institutions, informants, undertakers or sextons, connected with any birth, stillbirth or death, and all other persons having knowledge of the facts, shall furnish such information as they may possess regarding any death, stillbirth or birth (excepting such information as may divulge the parentage of an illegitimate child, as provided in section 13 of this Act) upon demand of the State Board of Health, by mail, or through an accredited representative. Said board shall arrange, bind and permanently preserve the certificates in a systematic manner, and shall prepare and maintain a comprehensive card index of all births and deaths registered, and shall compile and publish for the information of the citizens of the State an annual report of births and deaths, which report shall contain such data as, in the opinion of the said board, will serve to promote public health and the general welfare of the citizens of the State.

§ 18. That it shall be the duty of the local registrars to supply blank forms of certificates to such persons as require them. Each

local registrar or sub-registrar shall carefully examine each certificate of birth, stillbirth or death when presented for record, to see that it has been made out in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the instructions of the State Board of Health, and if any certificate of death or stillbirth is incomplete or unsatisfactory, it shall be the duty of the local registrar to call attention to the defects in the return and at his discretion he may withhold issuing the burial or removal permit until such defects are corrected. If the certificate of death or stillbirth is properly executed and is complete, as far as is practicable, he shall then issue a burial or removal permit to the undertaker: Provided, That in case the death occurred from any disease that is communicable and dangerous to the public health, the permit for the removal or other disposition of the body shall be granted by the local or sub-registrar, under such rules as may be prescribed by the State Board of Health, or under local rules or ordinances not in conflict with the rules of the State Board of Health. If a certificate of birth is incomplete, the local registrar shall immediately notify the person making such report and require him or her to supply the missing items if they can be obtained. The local registrar shall number consecutively the certificates of births, stillbirths and deaths in three separate series, beginning with No. 1 for the first birth, stillbirth or death in each calendar year, and sign his name as local registrar in the attest of the date of filing in this office. He shall also make a complete and accurate copy or copies of each birth, stillbirth and death certificate registered by him on blank certificates of births, stillbirths and deaths, or in a record book of approved form prescribed by the State Board of Health. Local registrars shall deposit with the county clerks of their respective counties within sixty days after the close of each calendar year, one complete set of the records of births, stillbirths and deaths registered with them during the year, and the county clerks are charged with the binding and safe keeping of such records. Each local registrar shall, on the tenth day of each month, transmit to the State Board of Health all original certificates registered by him, including those received from his subregistrars, during the preceding month. Provided, That any city, incorporated town or village which is a registration district for the purposes of this Act, may cause to be made extra copies of any or all birth, stillbirth and death certificates filed with the local registrar, such extra copies to be in addition to those copies which are required. to be made for and turned over to the county clerk, as provided for in this Act, and such extra copies may be retained by any city, incorporated town or village as its permanent record.

If no birth, stillbirth or death occurred in any month, the local registrar shall, on the tenth day of the following month, report that fact to the State Board of Health on a card provided for that purpose.

§ 19. That each registrar for a registration district shall be paid. the sum of twenty-five cents ($0.25) for each birth, stillbirth and death certificate properly and completely made out, filed with and registered by him, up to an aggregate annual total of five thousand certificates, and for each such certificate so made out and filed with and registered by him, in excess of an annual total of five thousand certificates, the register shall be paid the sum of ten cents ($0.10): Provided, that