30 mars 1885 - An Act respecting the Study of Anatomy

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«Section 2: In all localities coming under the provisions of this Act, the body of any person found dead, publicly exposed, or sent to a public morgue, or who immediately before death had been supported in and by any public institution, shall be delivered to persons qualified as hereinafter mentioned, unless such body be within forty-eight hours after death claimed by relations or bona fide friends, or being a lunatic, dies in any Provincial Asylum for the insane; provided nevertheless, that the authorities in whose care any body may be, shall not deliver the same to any person other than a known relative unless such person shall pay to the said authorities the sum of five dollars to defray the funeral expenses of the body so claimed, the said sum to be paid over to the undertaker by the said authorities when satisfied that the body has been properly interred»
«Section 3: Any medical school obtaining any body as provided by section 2 of this Act, shall keep and preserve the same for a period of not less than five days, and in the event of any relative or bona fide friend claiming such body.within a period of five days from the receipt thereof by such medical school, the said medical school shall deliver over such body to the said relative or bona fide friend upon the receipt of the reasonable costs and charges for preserving and keeping the same, not to exceed the sum of ten dollars»