Оню OREGON PENNSYLVANIA RHODE ISLAND TENNESSEE UTAH VIRGINIA WASHINGTON WEST VIRGINIA WISCONSIN WYOMING ARKANSAS Physician to keep record of convicts, including nationality or race, weight, stature, former occupation and family history, together with health record. Superintendent to establish a rogues' gallery, in which shall be placed the pictures of all persons confined in the penitentiary. Warden shall keep records of all convicts, including name, height, apparent or alleged age, place of nativity, trade, complexion, color of hair and eyes, length of feet, and accurate measurements, together with natural or accidental marks which may serve to identify. If convict can write his signature shall be written under description. Prisoners may in discretion of board Warden to keep records of all convicts, Board to have records of all convicts R. S. 1910, Div. 3, C. 2, Sec. 2194. R. S. 1910, Title 33, C. 14, Sec. 4522. R. S. 1907, Page 3494, Sec. 43. R. S. 1909, Title 38, C. 360, Sec. 18. R. S. 1903, Sec. 7517. R. S. 1907, Title 72, C. 10, Sec. 2245. Clerk to keep a register describing R. S. 1904, Title all prisoners. Names of prisoners and crimes to be recorded. State auditor to keep a public record of all convictions. Clerk to keep record describing all prisoners. Clerk shall keep record of all convicts received, discharged, pardoned or dead and such other matters as may be necessary in statistics of this kind. State board of charities and reform to keep records of all prisoners, including name, date of sentence, age, sex, color, religion and nativity, nature of crime and ability to read or write. 55, C. 202, Sec. 4114. R. S. 1910, Title 78, C. 2, Secs. 8542-4. R. S. 1906, C. 4657. R. S. 1898, C. 201, Sec. 4902. 4. Use of dead body for scientific purposes:1 1 This is not permitted in Wyoming. R. S. 1910, C. 41, Sec. 520. R. S. 1908, C. 35, Sec. 2668. CALIFORNIA COLORADO CONNECTICUT ILLINOIS INDIANA it may be delivered to them for dissec- Any sheriff or keeper of a county jail The officers having control of any almshouse, prison, etc., may surrender the dead bodies of such persons as must be buried at public expense to any licensed physician of the state to be by him used for the advancement of science. If the deceased during his last illness requested to be buried, or if within 24 hours after his or her death any relative or friend require body for burial, body shall be buried. After having been used for scientific purposes body must be buried. The body of any convict who has been executed shall be buried in the ordinary manner at expense of state, unless claimed by relative or friend, desiring to give it Christian burial. The bodies of convicts who die in the state prison shall, if unclaimed for a period of 24 hours, be at the disposal of the professors of anatomy and surgery in the medical institution of Yale University, to be used for the purpose of advancing medical science in this state and shall be subject to their order. Superintendent of penitentiary in whose custody is the body of any deceased person required to be buried at public expense shall give permission to remove body to any physician or surgeon or to any medical college or school upon offer to remove free of charge, after notice has been given to relatives who may wish to bury body, and provided further that any medical college that shall receive the bodies of deceased persons for purposes of scientific study, shall furnish the same to students of medicine and surgery at a price not exceeding $5.00 for each and every deceased body so furnished. It shall be the duty of any officer in charge of a prison, etc., having in charge the dead bodies of any person IOWA KANSAS KENTUCKY MAINE not claimed by relatives or legal repre- Superintendent of any penitentiary It shall be lawful for the faculty of any regularly-organized medical college in the state authorized to confer the degree of doctor of medicine, to claim and receive the dead body of any criminal which would otherwise be buried in the potter's field; such body to be used within the state for the advancement of medical science and instruction of students. The president and secretary of the college must give bond that body is only required for scientific purposes within the State of Kansas. The remains after serving such purpose must receive decent burial. It shall be lawful for the professor of any medical college or school which is incorporated under the laws of the state to secure from the superintendent or warden, any unclaimed body, after relatives and friends have been notified, and three days have elapsed without action on their part. The professor is to have body embalmed and preserve the same for 30 days without dissecting it. During the 30 days body shall be delivered to friends on request. After such body has been examined as herein provided it shall be buried at expense of college. Officers of any prison having charge over dead bodies required to be buried at public expense, shall deliver same to board composed of professors of anatomy and surgery in medical schools of state, who shall remove such bodies R. S. 1907, Title 24, C. 9, Sec. 4946. R. S. 1909, C. 75, R. S. 1909, Sec. 2645. R. S. 1903, C. 17, MARYLAND MICHIGAN MISSOURI NEBRASKA NEW HAMPSHIRE NEW JERSEY NORTH CAROLINA NORTH DAKOTA to be used within the state for the ad- The bodies of deceased convicts may Officer in charge of any prison having in charge the dead body of any convict, not claimed and which must be buried at public expense, shall deliver such body within 36 hours after death to the demonstrator of anatomy of a college of medicine. After bodies have been used for scientific purposes they shall be decently buried. Officer in charge of any prison shall give over the bodies of any convicts which are unclaimed by relatives and would otherwise have to be buried at public expense, to the state board for the disposition of human bodies, which is composed of the professors of anatomy of all incorporated schools. Warden of state prisons, etc., to deliver the bodies of convicts, with consent of relatives, if they are known and without if not known, to medical colleges for purposes of scientific study. It shall be the duty of the keeper of any state prison or jail, to notify physicians or surgeons who have previously made request in writing, whenever the body of any person would have to be buried at public expense. The person receiving such a body must give bond that it will only be used in the pursuit of science, and after the use allowed by law will be decently buried. If body is claimed by relatives or friends within 36 hours after death it shall be given them. Officers of prison, etc., shall deliver to duly incorporated pathological association bodies of dead convicts which require to be buried at public expense, unless claimed by relatives. Bodies of all persons imprisoned at Superintendent shall give over to any R. S. 1904, Art. 27, Sec. 623. R. S. 1897, Sec. 5897. R. S. 1909, C. 78, Art. 3, Secs. 8324-30. R. S. 1911, Sec. 9899. R. S. 1901, C. 136, Secs. 1-4. R. S. 1910, Page 3325, Sec. 12. R. S. 1908, C. 89, R. S. 1905, C. 24, OHIO OREGON PENNSYLVANIA SOUTH CAROLINA SOUTH DAKOTA TENNESSEE to remove bodies in. All bodies so used are to be decently buried or cremated. Warden of penitentiary in whose charge are unclaimed bodies which must otherwise be buried at public expense shall hold such bodies not less than 36 hours and notify a professor of a college which by its charter is empowered to teach anatomy. After bodies have been subjected to examination they shall be decently buried. It shall be lawful for professors and teachers in medical colleges and schools in this state, or for any medical and surgical association, or regular physician or surgeon, to claim and receive the body of any person executed pursuant to sentence of law, and of all persons dying in the penitentiary while under sentence of law for crime, to be used for the purpose of medical and surgical study, provided said body shall not have been interred or claimed by relatives within 24 hours after death, and that person has not expressed a distinct wish for burial. Bodies must be decently buried after having been used for scientific purposes. Officer of any prison, etc., in charge of dead body of a convict which must otherwise be buried at public expense, is requested to notify state board of anatomy and permit it to use body for scientific purposes. Officers of any prison, jail, etc., having control of a human body which is required to be buried at public expense, and that of any person upon whom the sentence of death has been executed under the law, shall notify the board for distribution of human bodies for scientific purposes. No notice shall be given of bodies claimed by relatives. After bodies have been used for scientific purposes they shall be decently buried. Persons in charge of unclaimed dead body of a convict to give notice to department of medicine of the state university, within 24 hours after receipt of body, specifying in such notice the probable cause of death. Such bodies shall be embalmed and held at university for 60 days during which time any friend of deceased requesting body for burial shall receive it. Bodies must be decently buried after having been used for scientific purposes. The bodies of dead criminals are delivered to physicians pursuant to the law. R. S. 1910, Secs. 9984-6. R. S. 1910, C. 6, R. S. 1903, Page 320, Secs. 1-7. Civil Code, 1912, Code of Crimi nal Procedure, 1910, Sec. 682. R. S. 1896, Part 4. C. 8, Art. 3, Sec. 6775. |