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 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. C11. 854. 1901. 1297 yellow fever, typhus fever, smallpox (including varioloid), leprosy, the plague, diphtheria, or scarlet fever, may be brought into said District, or carried through the same in transit, upon a permit of the prolper municipal, county, or State authorities of the place at which _ _ suc person died; and whenever the remains of an(y deceased person Mum °‘P°"“‘°· ‘ have been conveyed, transferred, or removed beyon the limits of said District it shall be the duty of the person or agent or 1officer of the corporation having charge of such conveyance, transfer, or removal to detach, date, sign, and return to the health officer the permit authorizing such conveyance, transfer, or removal before six o’clock postmeridian of the Saturday following the day of such conveyance, transfer, or removal of said remains. Sec. 677. REPORTS OF DEA'1‘H.~·—It shall be the duty of any person or Reports of death. persons having custody or control of the dead body of any human being or any part of such body to report in writing or cause to be reported in writing, to the health officer of said District, within forty- eight hours after the death of the deceased, the name of said deceased and the location of the body or part thereof. No such body or part Odl§)§g>?;*gf€ <>f b¤¤i¤¤ thereof shall be kept in said District in such manner as to give rise to` any offensive odors to the annoyance of any person or persons in the ne1ghborhood or to the public, nor so as to be exposed to the public view; nor shall any suc body or part thereof be permitted by the rson or persons having custody or control of it to remain unburied flgr a longer period than one week after death without permission of the health offcer, unless it has been cremated or deposited in the vault of some cemetery; nor shall any person publicly exhibit in said District, for pay or otherwise, any dead body of any human being or any gart of such body without a permit from the health officer of said istrict so to do, except such exhibition be in connection with some Government museum or with some institution of learning permanently located in said District. - Sec. 678. PLACE or BURIAL—·NO person shall bury or cause to be Pl°°° °*b¤*i¤*· buried within said District the body or part of the body of any deceased person, except in such grounds as are now known and used as public or private burial groun s, or such as shall hereafter be designated by the Cognmissioners of Said District and authorized by them to be used as suc. ‘ SEo. 679. Moms or BURIAL.—NO body shall be buried in said Dis- M<>¢<== <>¤>¤¤i¤1- · trict in any vault unless the coffin be separately entombed in properly cemented Stone or brick work, so as to render such vault air-tight; such vault, after having been sealed, shall not be opened within ten years; no body shall be temporaril deposited in any vault for a longer period than one month, unless suclsi body is in an hermetically sealed metallic case, nor in any instance for a longer period than one year. Sec. 680. RE01>EN1Ne GRAVES.-—No rave in said District shall be R‘*°P°¤*¤€ &'*¤V•>¤· reopened, except for the purpose of isinterment, within ten years after the buriaf) of a erson above twelve years of age, or within eight years after the burial)of a child under twelve years of age, unless the grave has been, in the iirst instance, of sufficient depth to permit subsequent interments, in which case a_layer of earth of not less than one foot thick shall be left undisturbed over the previously buried coffin, unless such coilin has been separately entombed in properly cemented stone or brick work; but if on reopenin any grave the soil·be found to be offensive, such soil shall not be disturbed. In no case shall a grave be opened in which has been buried the body of any person who as died of Asiatic cholera, ellow fever, typhus fever, smallpox gncluding varioloid), leprosy, the plague, tetanus, diphtheria, or scarlet ever. W `Sec. 681. DEPTH or e1>;AvEs.—No coiiin shall be’ buried in said Dis- D°P“‘ °'g“"°“· trict so that any part thereof is within less than four feet of the ordivor. xxx1·————82 `