Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1Witthaus, R. A. (Rudolph August)
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Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic medicine and Toxicology. Vol. 1
Witthaus, R. A. (Rudolph August)
Medical jurisprudence; Poisons; Toxicology
Board of health, mayor, etc., or officer, etc., having control of any
alms-house, prison, hospital, jail, etc., shall surrender bodies to be
buried at public expense to any physician or surgeon for dissection,
etc., unless deceased during last illness requested to be buried, or
body is claimed by relatives or friends, or deceased was a stranger or
traveller who died unknown (Mill’s Stat., secs. 1,547, 1,548).
Non-resident poor person to be decently buried (Mill’s Stat., sec.
3,391).
Coroner to hold inquest, etc., or, if none, bury it decently at expense
of county (Mill’s Stat., secs. 870-882).
Removal of body unlawfully for sale, dissection, etc., punishable
(Mill’s Stat., sec. 1,367).
Board of health may direct removal of dead bodies from cemetery within
a city (Laws, 1893, ch. 113, sec. 54).
CONNECTICUT.
No body shall be buried or disinterred or removed beyond limits of
any town unless a permit is obtained, and where deceased died of an
infectious disease body shall be in a hermetically sealed case (Gen.
Stat., secs. 106, 108, 113).
Custody of remains is in husband or wife or next of kin (Gen. Stat.,
sec. 536).
Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (Gen. Stat., secs. 2,005, 2,008). And
deliver body to friends or, if none, to town authorities for burial
(Gen. Stat., sec. 2,015).
Mayor, etc., may deliver bodies of those not buried within twenty-four
hours after death to medical college for dissection, etc., unless
relatives or friends do not consent, or deceased requested to be
buried, or was a stranger or traveller (Gen. Stat., sec. 1,729).
Bodies of convicts dying in State prison and not having any known
relatives, shall be delivered to medical institution of Yale College
(Gen. Stat., sec. 1,732).
Body of one dying in a hospital shall not be examined unless father,
etc., consent, or if none, within forty-eight hours after death (Gen.
Stat., sec. 1,735).
Removal of body from grave unlawfully, or receiving, secreting, or
dissecting same, is punishable (Gen. Stat., 1880).
Body of executed criminal shall be buried by sheriff (Gen. Stat., sec.
1,640).
DELAWARE.
Coroner to hold inquest, etc., or may cause body to be disinterred (R.
L., ch. 33).
Removal of body from grave unlawfully, a misdemeanor (Laws, 1883, ch.
204).
FLORIDA.
Buying, selling, or having possession for purpose of buying or selling,
a dead body is punishable (R. L., sec. 2,625).
Concealing birth of issue which, if born alive, would be a bastard, is
punishable (R. L., sec. 2,393).
Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (R. L., secs. 3,011, 3,019).
GEORGIA.
Coroner to hold inquest or to disinter same for inquisition (Code,
secs. 590, 591, 410 _et seq._).
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