Record of death occurred in hospital, jails and leper homes

Record of death occurred in hospital, jails and leper homes Where any person expires in civil or military hospitals, in the jails, asylum for abandoned persons, or in the leper homes, the directors or administrators of such establishment shall enter the birth record in the books which should be kept therein for this purpose, with all the declaration prescribed in this Code, and which may be available and within twenty four hours after the record is entered, shall remit authentic copy of the same to the official of the Civil Registration of the place where the hospital, prison, asylum, leper house is situated in order that the death record is transcribed in the Civil Registration records. § Sole paragraph – Such documents shall be filed with competent number of serial order of the registrations.