gcls_citycode_1894_037

Ordinances of the City of Greenville. 27

pay to the City the sum of fifty dollars for each day
such place or places may be kept or used for such purpose,
to be recovered in any Court having jurisdiction
thereof.

Sec. 7. If any person or persons shall bury any dead in
any burial ground or place within the limits of the City,
except such as are already set apart for such purpose,
such person or persons shall be liable for each such
offence to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars and
imprisonment not exceeding thirty days.

Sec. 8. It shall be the duty of the Chairman of the Board
of Health to furnish each practicing physician of the
City and the Coroner of Greenville County and Trial
Justices of the City of Greenville, with blank certificates
in the following form:

CERTIFICATE OF DEATH.
1. Full name of deceased. (If an infant not named, give parents' names.)
2. Age ____ years, months, days. Color.
3. Single, married, widow or widower.
4. Occupation.
5. Birthplace. (Country.)
6. How long a resident in the City.
7. Place of death ____ Ward and Street.
8. I do hereby certify that I attended deceased from ____ day of ____ 18 ____, to ____ day of ____ 18 ____; that I last saw ____ alive on the ____ day of ____ 18 ____, about ____ o'clock; and that the cause of death was ____.
________________ M. D.
Sec. 9. When any person shall die in the City, the physician
who shall have attended such person as physician
or surgeon shall fill up the blanks in the foregoing Section
to the best of his knowledge, and sign the same and
deliver it to the Chairman of the Board of Health; and
in case any person shall die in the City unattended by
any physician or surgeon, it shall be the duty of the
Coroner to furnish such certificate; and for each and
every neglect of the duty herein required, each and every
person offending shall forfeit and pay for the use of the
City the sum of twenty-five dollars.