Each officer, agent and servant of every city in the State and of every almshouse, prison, morgue, hospital, jail or other public institution in such cities having charge or control of any dead human body which is required to be buried at the public expense and every officer or other person having charge or control of the body of any person upon whom the sentence of death for crime has been executed under the law shall notify the Board, or such person or persons as may, from time to time, be designated by the Board or their duly authorized officer or agent, whenever and as soon as any such body comes to his possession, charge or control, and shall, without fee or reward, deliver such body and permit the Board and its agents, and such physicians and surgeons as may, from time to time, be designated by the Board and have given the bond hereafter required, to take and remove any such body to be used for the advancement of medical science.