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 pauper or unknown, not an inmate of any penal, charitable, or
reformatory institution, and not claimed by relative or delivered for
dissection according to law, shall be buried at public expense (Laws,
1890, p. 283).
Corpse shall not be conveyed to or from a city without a permit (R. L.,
sec. 2,119).
Bodies of those dying in city hospitals, city or county infirmaries,
work-houses, asylums, charitable institutions, penitentiaries, or
jails, which are required to be buried at public expense, shall be
delivered to medical college or society for study, etc., unless claimed
by relative, or deceased was a stranger or traveller (except tramps)
(R. L., sec. 3,763).
Removing body from grave without authority for dissection or receiving
such body is punishable (R. L., sec. 7,034).
Body of executed criminal, if not claimed by relative or friends, may
be delivered for dissection, etc. (R. L., sec. 7,343, 1).
OKLAHOMA.
Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (Stat., sec. 1,745 _et seq._).
And bury the body at public expense if not claimed by relatives (Stat.,
sec. 1,759).
Concealing birth of issue which, if born alive, etc., or dying within
two years after birth, is punishable (Stat., sec. 2,179).
2,188-2,190 same as 305-307 N. Y. P. C.
2,191 ” 308 ” (except subd. 4)
2,192-2,193 ” 309-310 ”
2,198 ” 311 ” (ex. punishment)
2,199 ” 312 ”
2,202 ” 314 ”
Custody is in him whose duty it is to bury (Stat., secs. 21, 97).
Duty of burial of married woman, on husband; if not married woman, on
nearest of kin who is an adult and has sufficient means (Stat., sec.
2,195).
Refusal to bury by one on whom duty rests, is a misdemeanor (Stat.,
sec. 2,196).
OREGON.
Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (Crim. Code, sec. 453 _et seq._).
And bury body if not claimed by friends (Crim. Code, sec. 462).
Unmarried woman concealing birth of child so that it may not be known
whether it was born alive or not, is punishable (Crim. Code, sec. 649).
Bodies of criminals executed, those dying in hospitals, insane asylums,
alms-houses, or penitentiaries, may be delivered to medical college or
physician for dissection, etc., unless they shall have been interred,
or claimed by relatives, or relatives and friends do not consent, or
deceased expressed a wish to be buried; and they shall be used for such
purpose only and in this State (Hill’s Am. Laws, sec. 3,730 _et seq._).
Removal of body without authority, etc., is punishable (Crim. Code,
sec. 656).
PENNSYLVANIA.
Coroner to hold inquest in Philadelphia County only in case of a
violent death (Bright Pen. Dig., 1536, sec. 37).
And may in Berks and Lancaster Counties order a post mortem (Bright
Pen. Dig., 1536, sec. 38).
Concealing death of child which, if born alive, would be a bastard, is
punishable (Bright Pen. Dig., 431, sec. 158).
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