1893-1894 - The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

FIFTH BIENNIAL REPORT. 55
ance of such case of small-pox unless unable to do so \)y reason of poverty;
and it shall be lawful for any registered physician residing in this*
, on application of such resident adult, or parent, master
or guardian of such resident minor, as is unable by reason of poverty
to pay the vaccination fee, to vaccinate said adult or said minor and
present his bill therefor, properly authenticated, for an amount not
exceeding the fee iisually charged for such services, and to recover the
same of and from the corporation, f
Sec. 23. Every undertaker or other person who may have charge of
the funeral of any dead person shall procure a properly filled out certificate
of the death and its probable cause, in accordance with the form
prescribed by the State Board of Health (no other to be valid), and shall
present the same to the designated otlicer or member of the local Board
of Health and obtain a burial or transit permit thereupon at least twentyfour
hours before the time appointed for such funeral or removal; and
neither lie nor an}- other person shall remove any dead body until such
burial or transit permit shall have been procured.
Sec. 24. Every person undertaking preparations for the burial of a body
dead from communicable disease as hereinbefore enumerated shall adopt
such precautions as are set forth in the "Instructions for Quarantine and
Disinfection," furnished by the State Board of Health, to prevent the
spread of such disease.
Sec. 25. Every physician or midwife attending or present at the l)irih
of any human being within the shall, wdthin twenty-four hours
thereafter, certify the same to the health officerj upon blanks prescribed
by the State Board of Health to be furnished by said health officer. In
case there be no attending physician or midwife, then the next of kin or
other person present at such birth shall, within twenty-four hours thereafter,
report the same to the health officer, who shall then have the
proper blank filled out.
Sec. 26.
business in this
All physicians, midwives and undertakers practicing or doing
shall register their names and addresses with
the Secretary of the Board of HealthlT within thirty daj-s after the promulgation
of this ordinance; and hereafter within ten
days after beginning
practice or business.
Sec. 27. Such pertinent portions of chapter 214, Laws of 189o, as are
not included in the above sections are hereby adopted as a part of this
ordinance.
Sec. 28. Every person violating any section of this ordinance shall be
liable for every such offense, upon conviction before the mayor or other
*City or town.
flf preferred the vaccination of paupers might be required of the health officer,
where there is one. the town furni.shin.s: the virus, or the fee might be fixed in advance
by agreement with the physicians. The vaccination of tlie people is of tlie highest
importance and everj' effort should be made to accomplish it. The amount of rawmaterial
ready to be worked up by small-pox in this State is simply appalling.
JWhere there is no health officer substitute " Citv or Town Clerk.''
IJWhere there is no Board of Health substitute "City or Town Clerk."
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