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
Body of person dying in the State, which is not claimed by relatives,
notice having been given, shall be delivered to medical school unless
ten voters of the town object to such disposition in writing (Laws,
1893, ch. 254).
MARYLAND.
Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (Md. Code, art. 22, secs. 3, 4).
Shall bury the body when necessary at public expense (Md. Code, art.
22, sec. 7).
Removal, etc., from graveyard, etc. (except potter’s field), of a body
is a misdemeanor (Md. Code, art. 27, secs. 133, 134).
MASSACHUSETTS.
Medical examiners shall hold inquest, etc. (Pub. Stat., ch. 26, secs.
10, 11).
And shall deliver it to relatives or friends, or if no one claims it,
to overseer of poor etc., for burial (Laws, 1887, ch. 310).
Body shall not be buried in city or town or removed therefrom without a
permit (Laws, 1888, ch. 306).
Body of one dying of infectious disease shall not be transported
without permit, and only in a sealed case (Laws, 1883, ch. 124, sec. 2).
Body shall not be cremated without permit and inquest by medical
examiner, or within forty-eight hours after death, unless death was
occasioned by contagious disease (Laws, 1885, ch. 265, sec. 4).
Overseers of poor, mayor and alderman of city, or superintendent of
State alms-house, may deliver body of person required to be buried at
public expense, to any physician or surgeon or medical college unless
deceased requested to be buried, or relative request burial or claim
it, or deceased was a stranger or traveller (Laws, 1891, ch. 185).
Body of criminal executed shall be delivered for dissection to a
medical college if requested; if not, to friends or relatives, or, if
none, to any physician or surgeon (Pub. Stat., ch. 202, sec. 8).
Removal of body unlawfully from grave is punishable, or buying,
selling, or possessing for such purpose, is punishable (Pub. Stat., ch.
207, secs. 47, 48).
Concealing birth of child which, if born alive, would be a bastard, is
punishable (Pub. Stat., ch. 207, sec. 11).
Seizing dead body on execution is punishable (Pub. Stat., ch. 207, sec.
46).
Body of a prisoner shall be buried by sheriff at town expense if not
claimed by relatives or friends (Pub. Stat., ch. 220, sec. 31).
MICHIGAN.
Justice of the peace to hold inquest, etc. (How. Am. Stat., vol. 2,
sec. 9,583 _et seq._).
And shall bury the body at the State or town expense (How. Am. Stat.,
vol. 3, sec. 9,593).
Woman concealing death of issue which, if born alive, would be a
bastard, is punishable (How. Am. Stat., vol. 3, sec. 9,284).
Board of health, officers, sheriff, etc., of any prison, etc.,
poor-house, alms-house, having body required to be buried at public
expense, shall, if not claimed by relatives, or if it have died of any
infectious disease, deliver it to University of Michigan, etc., for
dissection, etc. (How. Am. Stat., vol. 3, sec. 2,284).
Body shall not be shipped out of State nor used in State for any
purpose but anatomical study (How. Am. Stat., vol. 3, sec. 2,286).
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