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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.

Number of Marriages reported for the month, 16; White, 3; Colored, 13. Number of Births Registered, 3; White, 3.

CITY OF SHREVEPORT.

Estimated Population, 18,000-Whites, 9000; Colored, 9000.

Childbirth.

Pericarditis.

Anemia

Inanition

Hydrocephalus

CAUSES OF DEATH.

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NON-RESIDENTS (Charity Hospital).

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Stillbirths-Whites, 1; Colored, 2; Total, 3.

Births Reported-Whites, 3, Col

ored, 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.

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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,

*14996. 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.

*15014. 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.

*15016. All the tombs must be kept 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 of fence.

*1503a. All sextons shall enter, within the shortest possible delay, all deceased persons who may be conveyed to their respective ceme

teries, in graves to be dug not less than three feet in depth, to be at a distance of at least two feet from each other, according to such limitations as shall be described by the Surveyor, and *1503b. In pursuance of such directions as they may receive. *1503c. And it shall be the duty of each of said sextons to keep a book in which they shall insert, according to their dates, the names, sex, age, business and place of birth of each and every person they shall bury in the ground or deposit in tombs; *1503d. To take care that no damage be done to the tombs and fences,

1503e. To prevent cattle and beasts from going into said cemeteries; *1503f. To deliver daily a certified copy of the burials set forth on their books, whenever required by the Mayor or Council, and *1503g. To deliver over to their successors said books.

1503h. And in default, refusal or neglect on the part of

any sexton

to comply with any or all the foregoing provisions he shall be fined by the Recorder having jurisdiction, from

for each and every offence, and in default of payment to imprisonment from .. days in the Parish Prison or

Police Jail, at the discretion of said Recorder.

*1504. It shall be unlawful hereafter for any person or corporation to bury any human body within the limits of a city or town anywhere outside of a duly authorized public cemetery.

1505. That any person violating this ordinance shall be punished by a fine not exceeding or imprisonment not exceeding......days in default of payment of the fine, and that all ordinances contrary to this ordinance be repealed. *1506a. No interment of the dead body of any human being, or disposition thereof in any tomb, vault or cemetery, shall be made without a permit therefor granted by the Board of Health, nor otherwise than in accordance therewith, and

1506b. No sexton or other person shall assist in, or assent to, or allow any such interment, or aid or assist about preparing any grave or place of deposit for any such body, for which such permit has not been given authorizing the same. And

*1506c. It shall be the duty of every person who shall receive any such permit, to preserve and to return the same to the Board of Health, as its regulations may require.