§ 4.
In public hospitals, penitentiaries, charitable or other similar homes or institutions, the duty of inspection falls upon the physician in chief.
Outside these institutions the inspectors must be chosen, in the first instance, from among physicians, after them surgeons, former assistants of military hospitals, and lastly, in default of such, from lay people. The latter must, however, be of undoubted respectability, and, before their appointment, must be properly instructed by the district physician, and subjected from time to time to an examination.
§ 6.
As a rule the inspection of dead bodies must be made once if by doctors, and twice if by laymen. In communities which possess a mortuary a second inspection has to be made, even though the regular inspection has previously been made by doctors or laymen.
§ 7.
The first inspection has to be made as soon as possible after death, and, where practicable, within twenty-four hours, and in cases described under § 6, sec. 2, at least before removal of the body to the mortuary.
The second inspection must take place just before burial.
§ 8.
The body, until the arrival of the Inspector, must be left in an undisturbed position, with the face uncovered, and free from closely-fitting garments.