273 CMR, § 8.04 - Vital Statistics Reporting
(1)
Reporting Birth. A naturopathic doctor attending a
birth shall report the birth as follows:
(a)
If a birth occurs in a hospital, or if a birth occurs elsewhere and the mother
and child are taken to a hospital for postnatal care immediately after birth,
the naturopathic doctor, within 24 hours after such birth, shall file with the
administrator, or other person in charge of the hospital or similar institution
in which the birth occurs, a report on forms furnished by the Commissioner,
stating the facts required by M.G.L. c. 46, § 1 to be shown on the record
of such birth.
(b) If the mother
and child are not admitted to a hospital for postnatal care immediately after
birth, within ten days after such birth, shall file with the clerk of the city
or town wherein such birth occurred, a report on forms prepared and furnished
by the Commissioner, stating the facts required to be shown on the record of
such birth.
(2)
Reporting Death. A naturopathic doctor after the death
of a person whom he has attended during such person's last illness, or a
naturopathic doctor declaring such person dead shall immediately furnish for
registration a standard certificate of death to an undertaker or other
authorized person or a member of the family of the deceased, stating to the
best of his or her knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, the disease
of which he or she died, defined as required by M.G.L. c. 46, § 1, where
the same was contracted, the duration of the illness from which he died, and
the date of death. The naturopathic doctor shall print or type on every
certificate furnished by him or her under 273 CMR 8.04 the cause, or causes, of
death and, directly below his or her signature, his or her name and the date
the certificate was signed. The foregoing provisions shall apply in the same
manner in the event of a child dying immediately after birth. Both the birth
and death of such child shall be recorded.
(3)
Certain Deaths Reported to
the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner. A naturopathic doctor
who has knowledge of a death which occurs under the circumstances enumerated in
M.G.L. c. 38, § 3 shall immediately notify the office of the chief medical
examiner, or the medical examiner designated to the location where the death
has occurred, of the known facts concerning the time, place, manner,
circumstances and cause of such death.
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