1496e. (MODEL.) CITY OF BATON ROUGE. CAPITAL OF THE STATE, EAST BATON ROUGE PARISH. Population, Census 1890-Whites, 4444; Colored, 6034; Total, 10,478 Estimated Population, 1898-Whites, 5000; Colored, 7000; Total, 12,000. BOARD OF HEALTH. Thos. J. Buffington, M. D., President; J. W. Dupre, Secretary and Health Officer; Bernard Duchein, M. D., Mr. B. R. Meyer, Mr. M. J. Williams. Reports of Births, Deaths and Marriages, and complete classified Tables of Mortality for the month of June, 1898. Num Number of Marriages reported for the month, 16; White, 3; Colored, 13. ber of Births Registered, 3; White, 3. Childbirth. Pericarditis Anemia Inanition Hydrocephalus. CAUSES OF DEATH. CITY OF SHREVEPORT. Estimated Population, 18,000-Whites, 9000; Colored, 9000. Under 5 years. 10 to 60 years. Over 60 years. Stillbirths-Whites. 1: Colored, 2; Total. 3. Births Reported-Whites, 3, Colored. 5; Total, 8. Marriages-Whites, 4. Colored, 11; Total, 15. J. C. EGAN, M. D. Health Officer. All cases dying in Charity Hospital from city are included in City Mortuary Report. 1 1 16 21 Total. GRAND TOTAL. Over 60 years. Total. 172121 2 1 1 CHAPTER VII. REGULATIONS CONCERNING INTERMENTS, CEMETERIES, SEXTONS AND DEAD BODIES. N. B. The Regulations marked by a star are obligatory. The other Regulations are recommendatory and educational. Each Local Board will adopt those which it thinks best suited for its local conditions. * 1497. Every sexton or other person having charge of any cemetery, graveyard or burying ground shall, on Monday of each week, before the hour of 9 A. M., make a written report and hand the same into the office of the Board of Health; which said report shall contain the full name of each and every person buried in such cemetery, yard or ground, during the seven days next preceding 6 o'clock P. M. of the last Sunday before making such report, together with a statement of the color, sex, age, nativity, the cause of death of such person, occupation, place of death, social condition and birthplace of parents; also what interments were made in the ground, and what interments in vaults or tombs, together with the numbers and owners of said vaults or tombs, and such other information as the Board of Health may from time to time require. 1498. The penalty for violation of any section or portion of this regulation shall be a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars, recoverable before the Recorder of the district wherein the offence was committed, or, in default of payment of the fine imprisonment not exceeding thirty days for each and every offence. *1499a. The sextons of the various cemeteries in the parishes have authority, upon application of the proper owners or heirs of. tombs, vaults and graves, to open same, *1499b. But no tombs, vaults and graves shall be opened before one (1) year for an adult and six months for a child, where human bodies were interred, unless by a special permission from the Board of Health; provided, that no tomb, vault or grave shall be opened by any sexton, where death has resulted from any contagious disease, until two (2) years shall have elapsed from the date of such death and burial. And no human body or remains shall be disinterred, or disentombed, or removed or brought within the city without permission, in writing, from the proper officers of the Board of Health. *1500. At the expiration of every month it shall be the duty of keepers of burial grounds, within the to deliver to the Recorder of Births and Deaths of this parish all the original certificates required by the ordinances, by virtue of which the said keepers have received bodies for interment. 1500 (2) And the said Recorder of Births and Deaths shall carefully file and preserve such original certificates, and keep indexes of the same, so that they may be easily found and referred to, and shall give copies of the same, duly certified, whenever thereunto required by the persons interested. *150ra. All tombs must be built of the best kind of brick or stone, laid in mortar, with the proper proportion of the best cement and sharp sand, and covered with bitumen on the ground floor of each tomb, with walls not less than nine inches in thickness, and plastered. *1501b. All the tombs must be kept in good order, and to have them repaired, otherwise it shall be done by the locality at the expense of the owners, who shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars. *1502a. It shall be the duty of every person at whose domicile any person shall have died to cause the same to be buried within forty-eight hours after his death, and 1502b. Any person offending against this section of this ordinance shall pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars for each offence. 15030. All sextons shall enter, within the shortest possible delay, all deceased persons who may be conveyed to their respective ceme |