AD. 1901.]
PUBLIC HEALTH.
[No. 10.
907
burials.
3.-(1.) A register shall be kept by the person or persons in charge of a cemetery, at or near such cemetery, and the date of burial, name, sex, age, and registered cause of death of each person shall be entered therein against the number of the grave in which the corpse is interred.
(2.) The register shall be open to inspection by any member of the Board, or by any officer of the Board who may be directed to make such inspection, at any reasonable hour.
4. Each grave shall be dug to at least a depth of seven feet throughout.
5.-(1.) Except as regards the corpses of children under five years of age, only one corpse shall be placed in one grave.
(2.) In the case of the corpses of children under five years of age, two corpses may be placed in one grave.
6. The interspace between any two graves at any point shall be at least eighteen inches.
7. Each grave, on being filled in, shall be properly covered with turf or chunam or such other material as may be approved of by the Board.
8. No grave may be re-opened after a corpse has been interred therein, without the written permission of the Medical Officer of Health or other officer duly appointed by the Board for that purpose.
9. The person in charge of each cemetery shall give not less than two hours' notice to the Overseer, or other officer of the Board duly appointed for the purpose, of the intention to inter a corpse and the hour at which it is proposed that such interment shall take place.
Chinese Cemeteries.
10. Each cemetery shall be laid out in sections of such size and arranged in such manner as may be directed by the Board.
11. A plan of the cemetery or a tracing thereof as laid out shall be on view at or near to the cemetery and at the office of the Board.
12. The plan shall show the position of each grave-space in each section, and every such grave-space shall bear a number.
13. A register shall be kept in the English and Chinese languages at or near each cemetery, and the date of burial, name, sex, age, and registered cause of death of each person shall be entered therein against the number of the grave in which the corpse is interred.
14.-(1.) Except as regards the corpses of children under five years of age, only one corpse shall be placed in one grave.
(2.) In the case of the corpses of children under five years of age, two corpses may be placed in one grave.
15. Each grave, on being filled in, shall be covered with turf or chunam or such other material as may be approved of by the Board.