Section 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.Adopted by Mass Register Issue 1468, eff. 4/29/2022.