Upon the decease of any person within the limits of the jurisdiction
of this Board, it shall be the duty of the City Clerk to issue to
the person or persons having charge of the body of the deceased a
burial permit of the form prescribed by the State Department of Health,
such permit to be issued upon a physician's certificate of the
cause of death, or upon the inquisition of a coroner. In case no physician's
certificate can be obtained and no inquest shall have been held, such
permit may be granted upon affidavit duly verified by some person
or persons known to the officers granting such permit, stating the
circumstances, time and cause of death as nearly as the same can be
ascertained. Such certificate of death must be presented and the burial
permit issued at least 12 hours before the appointed time for the
funeral or removal of the corpse. This regulation shall also apply
to stillbirths.
Transit permits shall be issued by the City Clerk for presentation
of the same requisites as are necessary to obtain burial permits.
The Health Officer is directed and empowered to execute and
enforce all sanitary regulations of general obligation now or hereafter
to be published by this Board; also to enter upon or within any premises
where conditions dangerous to the public health are known or believed
to exist and to examine into the nature of complaints made by any
of the inhabitants concerning sources of danger or injury to health;
and he shall preserve accurate records of his official action and
report the same to the Board of Health at its next meeting. And whenever,
in his judgment, danger to the public health shall arise requiring
special regulation not of general application, he shall forthwith
notify the Mayor, who shall thereupon convene the Board to take such
action as may be necessary and proper.