Chap. 351.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 1743-f of the Code of
Virginia, prescribing rules for the transportation of dead bodies, as
amended by act approved January 30, 1912. (S. B. 180.)

Approved March 27, 1914.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That.
section seventeen hundred and forty-three-f of the Code of Vir-
ginia prescribing rules for the transportation of dead bodies, as
amended by act approved January thirtieth, nineteen hundred and
twelve. be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:

Rule 1. Regulations regarding the transportation of the
dead.—A copy of the original death certificate on the standard cer-
tificate of death form, signed by attending phvsician, permit of
local board of health or registrar. and a transit label signed by the
shipping funeral director. and initial baggage agent, printed on
strong white paner, supplied through the State department of
health by the public printer. shall be required for the transporta-
tion by common carriers of bodies of persons dying in this State.
The death certificate shall contain such information as is required
in the standard form of death certificate, if obtainable. The health
cflicers or registrar’s permit. shall authorize the transportation of
the body of the person described in the physician’s certificate. The
shipping funeral director. shall state on the shipping label how
the body is prepared, and the local baggage agent shall state thereon
the route, name and address of escort.
she physician's anda health olmcer’s or registrar's permit snall
be given the escort, to be delivered with the body at destination.
The shipping label shall be securely attached to the outside case.
If the body is sent by express, the physician’s certificate, and the
permit shall be attached to the express way-bill, and delivered with
the body at the destination, and the shipping label shall be attached
to the outside case.

Rule 2. The transportation of bodies dead of smallpox, plague,
asiatic cholera, yellow fever, typhus fever, diphtheria (membranous
croup or diphtheretic sore throat), scarlet fever (scarlet rash or scar- °
latina), erysipelas, anthrax and leprosy shall be permitted only
under the following conditions: the body shall be thoroughly em-
balmed with an approved disinfectant fluid, all orifices shall be
closed with absorbent cotton, the body shall be washed with the
disinfectant fluid, enveloped in a sheet saturated with the same,
and placed at once in the coffin or casket, which shall be immedi-
ately closed, and the coffin or casket, or the outside case containing
the same, shall be metal or metal lined, and hermetically and per-
manently sealed.

Rule 3. The transportation of bodies dead of any diseases other
than those mentioned in rule two, shall be permitted under the
following conditions:

A. When the destination can be reached within twenty-four
hours after death, the coffin or casket shall be inclosed in a strong
outside box made of good sound lumber, not less than seven-eighths
of an inch thick. all joints must be tongued and grooved. top and
bottom, put on with cleats or cross pieces, all put securely together,
and be tightly closed with white lead. asphalt varnish or paraffin
paint; and a rubber gasket placed on the upper edge between the
- Jid and box: provided. however, that caskets containing embalmed
» bodies may be shipped to points in this State in tight ordinary
casket boxes: and provided further. that bodies addressed to the
. anatomical board of this State. may be received for shipment when
' prepared in such manner as the State board of health may direct.

B. When the destination cannot be reached within twenty-four
hours after death, the body shall be thoroughly embalmed, and the
coffin or casket placed in a strong well made outside shipping case.
Rule 4. No disinterred body, dead from any disease or cause,
- shall be transported by common carriers, unless approved by health

“ authorities having jurisdiction at the place of disinterment, and a

‘ transit permit, dnd transit label, shall be required, as provided in
- rule one. The disinterment and transportation of bodies dead of
- diseases mentioned in rule two shall not be allowed except upon
i, permission of the health authorities, at both places of disinterment,
- and the point of destination. All disinterred remains for trans-
+ portation, shall be incased in metal casket or metal lined boxes,
? and hermetically sealed; provided that bodies in a receiving vault
when prepared by licensed embalmer, shall not be regarded as
disinterred bodies until after the expiration of thirty days.

Rule 5. The outside case may be omitted in all instances when
the body is transported in hearse or funeral directors’s wagon.

Rule 6. Every outside case shall bear at least four handles,
and when over five feet six inches in length, shall bear six handles.

Rule 7. An approved disinfectant fluid shall contain not less
than five per centum of formaldehyde gas, the term embalming as
employed in these rules, shall require the injection by a licensed
embalmer, of not less than ten per centum of the body weight for
bodies of persons dead of diseases in rule two, injected arterially,
in addition to cavity injection: and not less than six per centum of
the body weight injected arterially in all other cases in addition to

cavity injection, and ten hours shall elapse between the time of em-
balming and the shipment of the body.

Rule 8. The attached form of death certificate, health offices or
registrar’s permit, and label as described herein, with these rules
printed thereon, shall be used in this State for the shipment of
bodies as herein provided.

Rule 9. Any violation of this act shall be deemed a misde-
meanor, and punishable by a fine of not less than ten nor more
than twenty-five dollars, for the first offense, and a fine of not less
than twenty-five dollars nor more than fiftv dollars, or imprison-
ment not exceeding thirty days. or both fined and imprisoned in the
discretion of the court, fer each additional offense.
of the original certificate filed at place of death.

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