Non-resident poor person to be decently buried (Mill’s Stat., sec. 3,391).
Coroner to hold inquest, etc., or, if none, bury it decently at expense of county (Mill’s Stat., secs. 870-882).
Removal of body unlawfully for sale, dissection, etc., punishable (Mill’s Stat., sec. 1,367).
Board of health may direct removal of dead bodies from cemetery within a city (Laws, 1893, ch. 113, sec. 54).
Connecticut.
No body shall be buried or disinterred or removed beyond limits of any town unless a permit is obtained, and where deceased died of an infectious disease body shall be in a hermetically sealed case (Gen. Stat., secs. 106, 108, 113).
Custody of remains is in husband or wife or next of kin (Gen. Stat., sec. 536).
Coroner to hold inquest, etc. (Gen. Stat., secs. 2,005, 2,008). And deliver body to friends or, if none, to town authorities for burial (Gen. Stat., sec. 2,015).
Mayor, etc., may deliver bodies of those not buried within twenty-four hours after death to medical college for dissection, etc., unless relatives or friends do not consent, or deceased requested to be buried, or was a stranger or traveller (Gen. Stat., sec. 1,729).
Bodies of convicts dying in State prison and not having any known relatives, shall be delivered to medical institution of Yale College (Gen. Stat., sec. 1,732).