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J-  L.  FAIRBANKS  DIV. 

Tbomai  Groom  & Co. 

Stationers 

105  State  St.,  Boston 


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To  dnplicate  this  book  order 

No-  ^69  VO 


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Copies  of  returns  of  dentils  recorded  during  the  previous  month  which  occurred  in  your  city  or  town  in  case  the  deceased 
resided  in  another  city  or  town  at  the  time  of  death  should  be  made  forthwith  and  transmitted  on  Form  R-302  to  the  clerk 
of  the  city  or  town  in  which  the  deceased  resided.  (See  Chap.  40,  Sec.  12,  G.  L.) 


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(City  or  town  making  return) 

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No. 


2 FULL  NAME 


tHIje  (Eommanfacalil}  of  ,JHassacf{us£tts 

OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

COPY  OF 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 

(%°»s«  IIor.oTiospital 

f Toothy  “ Jo's  0pE"" i^lllvah 5t‘  1 give  its  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 

f at  u.  s.  Spanish 


Registered  No. 


| (If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution. 


(If  deceased  is  a mai0g£,  4*  dfvjoQgl(Avoman,  give  also  maiden  name.)  Winthro  tyStfiSSs 


(a)  Residence.  No St 

(Usual  place  of  abode)  hOf?  itc-.  1 *7  (If  nonresident,  give  <§y  or  town  and  State) 

Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  institution years  months  days.  In  this  community  yrs.  mos.  days. 

(Before  death)  (Specify  whether) 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


ME 


TUflBA,Tfc  OF  DEATH 


3 SEX 


M 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE! 

v: 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  wordL 

married  Marrisa 


WIDOWED 
or  DIVORCED 


18  DATE  OF 
DEATH  


(Month) 


(Day) 


(Year) 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  orKilvdr^ed^  • lltJ.  i‘ o 


19  I H S#5c  E R 44-F  Y , attended  deoea45  from 

im....,  19 45 , 19 


HUSBAND  of 
(or)  WIFE  of 


(Give  maiden  name  of  wife  in  full) 
(Husband’s  name  in  full) 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive 


~69~ 


years 


I last  saw  h alive  on 9.2.3jQ9.p.«  death  is  said  to 

have  occurred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at m. 




7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  h 


8 


-74 


AGE Years 


If  less  than  1 day 


Usual 

9 Occupation : 


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inutes 


xj . S » Government 


.Hyportenslon.&...hyp.er.t.ena.lv.e 

Due  to hear? t di.sease .. .... ... 

Generalized  art.erio  sclerosl 


2-iyp.s.. 


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


none 


Due  to. 


T1  Social  Security  No.. 


oaten  »Kass , 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City)  

(State  or  country)  q*} 


Other  conditions 

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations 


OT  14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
H ; FATHER  (City) 

z ; (State  or  country) 


Ireland 


Ddl^nical 


CC  j 15  MAIDEN  NAME 

< I OF  MOTHER 
Q-  


-it 


el-ett  Birch  ell 


Of  autopsy 

What  test  confirmed  diagnosis? 
20  Was  disease  or 
If  so,  specify 


Physician 


Underline 
the  cause  to 
which  death 
should  b e 
charged sta- 
tistically. 


deceased?.. 


16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
MOTHER 


“Ireland- 


(State  or 


r&cgflorn*  Kane  Heap. 


ir  injury  in  any  w$y  related  to  occupation  of 

Samuel  S.Groonsteln 

(Signed) S.O.ldi.Qr.a.’ lORM*. ffS. M.  8 5 

(Addre^t  y Josephs v Qlrt  w-  lyW<M  111  19 


17 


Informant 

(Address) 


^ Relation,  if  any  ^ 


21  PLACE  OF  BURIAL,  JowA  1945 

CREMATION  OR  REMOVAC  .*“*.•  

(Cemetery).  (City  or  Town) 

DATE  OF  BURIAL  JoUtl  1 ...0  ■ L&  lQy 19 


22  name  of  79  AtlfiHEltf"  St  .’“irithrop 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR  


A TRUE  COPY. 
ATTEST: 


fRegi/trar  fU  C£ty  or  town  \yfere  death  occurn 


ADDRESS 


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DATE  FILED  ' 19 


Reoeived  and  filed f. -....L 19 

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r(ffbc  QIomiiuin(ui-;tItIj  of  JHnssnrlyttsctts 

OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

MEDICAL  EXAMINER’S 
CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


To  be  filed  for  burial  permit 
with  Board  of  Health 
or  its  Agent. 


Registered  No. 


2 


(If  death  occurred  iii  a hospital  or  Institution, 
(five  its  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 


2 FULL  NAME 

(If  deceased  is  a ma 

(a)  Residence.  No. 

(Usual  place  of  abode) 


■x  I r>  \ / ^PHYSICIAN— IMPORTANT 

Q...(/3AJLa^.lAJ^.^LS. J (Was  deceased  a OTXi 


widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.) 
. St. 


| U.  S.  War  Veteran,  Ur^yit 
^ if  so  specify  WAR) 


- J 


Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  Institution years  months 

(Before  death)  (Sppcify  whether) 


days. 


(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 
In  this  community  yrs.  mos. 


days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 

Female 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

White 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 
MARRIED 

WIDOWED  w . 

or  divorced  Married 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced 

HUSBAND  of  

<*)  wife  * ->. 

(Husband’s  name  in  full) 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive  years 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


S 


AGE  J§A..  Years Months Days 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours Minutes 


Usual 


9 Occupation : 


Houaewif  e 


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


At  Home 


11  Social  Security  No 

12  birthplace  (City)  Worcester. 


(Slate  or  country) 


Maaa 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 


Albert  Dorman 


14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
FATHER  (City)  . 
(State  or  country) 


.IS.r.cester. 


Nias  a. 


is  maiden  name  Qertrude  Robinson 

OF  MOTHER 


16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 

MOTHER  (City)  AUgUSta 

(State  or  country) 


Maine 


17 


Informant  Albert  ...I «...  .flouthirtek  / 

r A.i.ir.-~>  45  SLrenfr  at.,  Wlnthrop 


l_  HEREBY  CERTIFY  _thal  a satisfactory  standard  certificate  of  death  was 
thp^buyla[  oy  transit  permit  was  issued: 


filed  With  me  BEFORE 

^nature  of  Jneavof  Board  o 

±-J.. 

Hcial  Designation)  (J  /j  (Date  of  Issue  of  Permit) 


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MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


IS  DATE  OF 
DEATH  




(Month) 


.3. - l.£9.£. 

(Day)  (Year) 


19  I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  I have  Investigated  the  death 
of  the  person  above-named  and  that  the  CAUSE  AND  MANNER  thereof 
was  involved,  state  fully.) 

f..£rfLv*_£l_ 7. 


arenas  fotlowji_(I^p  injury 


20  Accident,  suioide,  or  homlolde  (specify) 

Date  of  ooourrenoa 19.. 


Where  did 
Injury  occu/? 


/ 


place? 


Manner  of 
Injury  


(Specify  type  of  j>lace) 


Nature  of 


Injury 


While  at  work? Was  there  an  autopsy? 


21  Was  disease  or  injury  in  an/\vay  rotated  tc 
If  so,  specify 


(Signed) 

(Address) 


to  occupation  of  deceased? 





(City  or  town  and  State) 

Did  Injury  ocour  In  or  about  home,  on  farm,  In  Industrial  plaoe,  or  In  publlo 


f.int.nr.^p. 


22  Wiut.hr.op. W.iut.ur  _ 

Place  of  Burial,  Cremation  or  Removal.  (City  or  Town) 

DATE  OF  BURIAL. .. Jun..... .8,.. JL9..i5 19 


23  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR 


ADDRESS  


Reoelved  and  filed 19. 


/ 


(Registrar) 


V 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS  OF  THE 

COMMONWEALTH  OF  MASSACHUSETTS 

GOVERNING  THE 

RETURN  OF  CERTIFICATES  OF  DEATH 


A physician  or  registered  hospital  medical  offioer  shall  forthwith,  after 
the  death  of  a person  whom  he  has  attended  during  his  last  illness,  at  the 
request  of  an  undertaker  or  other  authorized  person  or  of  any  member  of 
the  family  of  the  deceased,  furnish  for  registration  a standard  certificate  of 
death,  stating  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief  the  name  of  the 
deceased,  his  supposed  age,  the  disease  of  which  he  died,  defined  as  required 
by  section  one,  where  same  was  contracted,  the  duration  of  his  last  illness, 
when  last  seen  alive  by  the  physician  or  officer  and  the  date  of  his  death  . . . 
Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  4 0,  Sec.  9. 

A physician  or  officer  furnishing  a certificate  of  death  as  required  by  the 
preceding  section  or  by  section  forty-five  of  chapter  one  hundred  and  four- 
teen, shall,  if  the  deceased,  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief,  served 
in  the  army,  navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  United  States  in  any  war  in  which 
it  lias  been  engaged,  insert  in  the  certificate  a recital  to  that  effect,  speci- 
fying the  war,  and  shall  also  certify  in  such  certificate  both  the  primary 
and  the  secondary  or  immediate  cause  of  death  as  nearly  as  he  can  state 
the  same.  For  neglect  to  comply  with  any  provision  of  this  section,  such 
physician  or  officer  shall  forfeit  ten  dollars.  For  the  purposes  of  this  sec- 
tion and  of  sections  forty-five,  forty-six  and  forty-seven  of  said  chapter  one 
hundred  and  fourteen,  tiie  word  ‘‘war”  shall  include  the  China  relief  ex- 
pedition and  the  Philippine  insurrection,  which  shall,  for  said  purposes,  be 
deemed  to  have  taken  place  between  February  fourteenth,  eighteen  hundred 
and  ninety-eight  and  July  fourth,  nineteen  hundred  and  two,  and  the  Mexi- 
can border  service  of  nineteen  hundred  and  sixteen  and  nineteen  hundred 
and  seventeen.  G.  L.  Chap.  46,  Sec.  10. 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  or  otherwise  dispose  of  a human 
body  in  a town,  or  remove  therefrom  a human  body  which  has  not  been 
buried,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from  the  board  of  health,  or  its 
agent  appointed  to  issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  from 
the  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  person  died;  and  no  undertaker  or  other 
person  shall  exhume  a human  body  and  remove  it  from  a town,  from  one 
cemetery  to  another,  or  from  one  grave  or  tomb  other  than  the  receiving 
tomb  to  another  in  the  same  cemetery,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from 
the  board  of  health  or  its  agent  aforesaid  or  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  body  is  buried.  No  such  permit  shall  be  issued  until  there  shall 
have  been  delivered  to  such  board,  agent  or  clerk,  as  the  case  may  be,  a 
satisfactory  written  statement  containing  the  facts  required  by  law  to  be 
returned  and  recorded,  which  shall  be  accompanied,  in  case  of  an  original 
interment,  by  a satisfactory  certificate  of  the  attending  physician,  if  any, 
as  required  by  law,  or  in  lieu  thereof  a certificate  as  hereinafter  provided. 
If  there  is  no  attending  physician,  or  if,  for  sufficient  reasons,  his  certificate 
cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  or  is  insufficient,  a physi- 
cian who  is  a member  of  the  board  of  health,  or  employed  by  it  or  by  the 
selectmen  for  the  purpose,  shall  upon  application  make  the  certificate  re- 
quired of  the  attending  physician.  If  death  is  caused  by  violence,  the 
medical  examiner  shall  make  such  certificate.  If  such  a permit  for  the 
removal  of  a human  body,  not  previously  interred,  from  one  town  to  an- 
other within  the  commonwealth  cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the 
puipose,  the  certificate  of  death  made  as  above  provided  and  in  the  pos- 
session of  the  undertaker  desiring  to  make  such  removal  shall  constitute  a 
permit  for  such  removal;  provided,  that  such  body  shall  be  returned  to  the 
town  from  which  it  was  removed  within  thirty-six  hours  after  such  re- 
moval, unless  a permit  in  the  usual  form  for  the  removal  of  such  body  has 
been  sooner  obtained  hereunder.  If  the  death  certificate  contains  a recital, 
as  required  by  section  ten  of  chapter  forty-six,  that  the  deceased  served  in 
the  army,  navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  United  States  in  any  war  in  which 


it  has  been  engaged,  such  recital  shall  appear  upon  the  permit.  The  board 
of  health,  or  it-  agent,  upon  receipt  of  such  statement  and  certificate,  shall 
forthwith  countersign  it  and  transmit  it  to  the  clerk  of  the  town  for  regis- 
tration. The  person  to  whom  the  permit  is  so  given  and  the  physician  cer- 
tifying the  cause  of  death  shall  thereafter  furnish  for  registration  any  other 
necessary  information  which  can  be  obtained  as  to  the  deceased,  or  as  to 
the  manner  or  cause  of  the  death,  which  the  clerk  or  registrar  may  re- 
quire.— Chap.  114,  Sec.  45,  G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition). 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  a human  body  or  the  ashei 
thereof  which  have  been  brought  into  the  commonwealth  until  he  hat  re- 
ceived a permit  so  to  do  from  the  board  of  health  or  its  agent  appointed  to 
issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  body  is  to  be  buried  or  the  funeral  is  to  be  held,  or  from  a per- 
son appointed  to  have  the  care  of  the  cemetery  or  burial  ground  in  which 
the  interment  is  made.  ...  Chap.  114,  Sec.  46,  G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edi- 
tion). 

Medical  examiners  shall  make  examination  upon  the  view  of  the  dead 
bodies  of  only  such  persons  a»  are  supposed  to  have  died  by  violence.  If  a 
medical  examiner  has  notice  that  there  is  within  his  county  the  body  of 
such  a person,  he  shall  forthwith  go  to  the  place  where  the  body  lies  and 
take  charge  of  the  same;... — General  Laws,  Chap.  38,  Sec.  6. 

...  He  shall  in  all  cases  certify  to  the  town  clerk  or  registrar  in  the 
place  where  the  deceased  died  his  name  and  residence,  if  known;  otherwise 
a description  as  full  as  may  be,  with  the  cause  and  manner  of  death. — 
General  Laws,  Chap.  38,  Sec.  7. 

. . . The  medical  examiner  certifies  the  cause  and  manner  of  death  to  the 
best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief. 

RULES  OF  PRACTICE 

The  fulfillment  of  the  purpose  of  these  laws  calls  for  the  observance  of 
the  following  rules  of  practice: 

(1)  Attending  physioians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those  of 
persons  to  whom  they  have  given  bedside  care  during  a last  illness  from 
disease  unrelated  to  any  form  of  injury. 

(2)  Board  of  Health  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those 
of  persons  who,  though  disabled  by  recognized  disease  unrelated  to  any 
form  of  injury,  have  died  without  recent  medical  attendance  or  whose  physi- 
cian is  absent  from  home  when  the  certificate  of  death  is  needed. 

(RI  Medical  Examine”  will  investigate  and  certify  to  all  deaths  sup- 
posably  due  to  injury.  These  include  not  only  deaths  caused  directly  or  in- 
directly by  traumatism  (including  resulting  septicemia),  and  by  the  action 
of  chemical  (drugs  or  poisons),  thermal,  or  electrical  agents,  and  deaths 
following  abortion,  but  also  deaths  from  disease  resulting  from  Injury  or 
Infection  related  to  occupation,  the  sudden  deaths  of  persons  not  disabled 
by  recognized  disease,  and  those  of  persons  found  dead. 


STATEMENT  OF  CAUSE  OF  DEATH 
Medical  Examiners  in  certifying  to  a death  will  state  the  cause  and 
manner  thereof,  and  will  specify:  (1)  Under  cause,  the  nature  of  an  injury 
and  of  its  consequences;  and  (2)  under  manner,  the  mode  of  its  production 
together  with  the  circumstances  when  these  are  known.  For  example:  “Com- 
pound fracture  of  the  femur  with  ensuing  septicemia  (gas  bacillus)  caused 
by  a steam  railway  accident.”  “Pistol  shot  wound  of  the  chest  with  asso- 
ciated hemorrhage,  homicidal.”  “Asphyxiation  by  suspension,  suicidal.” 
“Syncope  while  under  the  influence  of  ether  administered  as  a surgical 
anaesthetic."  “Fracture  of  the  skull  with  associated  internal  injury  sus- 
tained under  circumstances  unknown.” 

If  disease  or  injury  was  related  to  occupation,  specify.  If  investigation 
shows  the  death  to  have  been  due  to  disease,  specify:  (1)  Under  cause  its 
known  or  presumable  nature;  and  (2)  under  manner,  indicate  the  circum- 
stances leading  to  medico-legal  inquiry.  For  example:  “Hemorrhage  spon- 
taneous of  the  brain  (basal  ganglia)  (found  dead  in  bed).”  “Heart  disease, 
presumably  coronary  sclerosis.  (Sudden  death.)” 


DESCRIPTION  (for  unknown  person) 


NOTICE  TO  UNDERTAKERS:  No  embalming;  fluid,  or  any  substitute  therefor,  shall  be  injected  into  the  body  of 
any  person  supposed  to  have  met  his  death  by  violence,  until  a permit,  signed  by  the  Medical  Examiner,  has  first  been 
obtained. — General  Laws,  Chap.  38,  Sec.  14. 

THIS  CERTIFICATE  CONSTITUTES  SUCH  PERMIT 

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60m  (e)-l-41-4667 


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rl 

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Bris  tol 


(County) 

Pall  River 


(City  or  Town) 


No. 


Pall  Hlver 

(City  or  town  making  return) 

leglstered  No *3.. 

Roc  e E&v/thom©  La  t hr  op  Hospital  C If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 

St.  | gjve  ;ts  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 


®he  (Ecimmmt&ii'altlf  of  Massachusetts 

OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

COPY  OF 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


Margaret  A*  beagle  foru.  s. 

2 FULL  NAME .. ^ War  Veteran. 

(If  deceased  is  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.)  1 specify  WAR)  

(.,  Residence.  Re £3  FsiTVieW s, | Wh  %«. 

(Usual  place  of  abode)  (If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 


Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  Institution year* 

(Before  death)  (Specify  whether) 


‘ months 


2Q, 


ays. 


In  this  oommunity 


yrs. 


day*. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX  4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

Female  White 


5 SINGLE 
MARRIED 
WIDOWED 
or  DIVORCED 


(write  the  word) 

Single 


5a  If  married,  widowed, 
HUSBAND  of  

or  divorced 

(or)  WIFE  of  

(Give  maiden  name  of  wife  in  full) 

(Husband’s  name 

in  full) 

6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive  

7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter 

that  fact  here. 

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AGE LL...  Years 

Months Days 

If  less  than  1 day 
Hours Minutes 

Usual 

housework 

Industry 

uwn  iiuL'it 

Ti  Social  Seourity  No. 

12  BIRTHPLACE  (City) 
(State  or  country) 

xiurniw 

13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 

Could 

not 

be 

learned 

14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 

FATHER  fCitvl  . 

If 

IV 

(State  or  country) 

15  MAIDEN  NAME 

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OF  MOTHER 

16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
MOTHER  (City) 

(State  or  country) 

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^ Relation,  if  any  ^ 


DATE  FILED 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


18  nrA/TEM0F  January  4 , 1945 

(Month) (Day) 


(Tear) 


19  I Hrfr/^E  SlYj.  £ E R TA,f.  Y 
9 19.. 


Jjhat  .l^att&ided  deoeased  f/t>i*Tv 
19 


, ...  h. mii',.  r — 


have  occurred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at m 


Immediate  cause  of  death 

Cancer  of  left  breast 


Oue  to.. 


Due  to.. 


Duration 


5..yr.! 


Other  conditions 

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Physician 


Underline 

Major  findings: 

Of  operations the  cause  to 

which  death 

Date  of -hould  be 

charged  *ta- 

: -Ic  1 X)  ncoplc  listically. 

What  test  confirmed  diagnosis? r I 

20  Was  disease  or  injury  in  any  way  related  to  oooupatlon  of  deceased? __ 

„ „ no 

If  80,  speolfy.. 


Of  autopsy.. 


(Signed) •>••••.  /*•  O. 

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(Address) 


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Hov;a  r d ^ • R & yno  Id  S 


DATE  OF  BURIAL 


22  NAME  OF 


FUNERAL  DIRECTOR 
AOORESS  ’.T" 


tWpop  0 Mas  s. 


Received  and  filed 19 


|H|| 

(Registrar  of  City  or  "Tbwn  where  deceased  resided) 


R £ C E 1 V ‘ 


•strict*  from  the  laws  on  back  ot  certificate. 

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OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTIC* 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


To  be  tiled  for  burial  permit 
with  Board  of  Health 


or  its  Agent. 


151  Lincoln  JJfc  . t | (If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  Institution, 


Registered  No. 

red  in  a hospital 
give  its  NAME  instead  ot  street  and  number) 


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(If  deceased  19  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.)  | *-*.  S.  War  Veteran, 

^ if  so  specify  WAR)..M.V.n.S: 

(a)  Residence.  No 15X...LtaC0lja....Sf.».y SL  


(Usual  place  of  abode) 


Length  of  stay:  In  nnsoltal  nr  Institution 

(Refnre  death)  (Specify  whether) 


years 


months 


days. 


(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 

In  this  community  ^.J^yrs,  mos,  days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


3 SEX 

Male 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

Wni  te 


SINOLE  (write  the  word) 

MARRIED 

WIDOWED 

or  oivorced  Married 


18  d°eaTtEh0F Jan...  s ,.  1945 

(Month) 


(Day) 


(Year) 


5a  If  married, 


19  I HEREBY  CERTIFY, 


That  I attended  deoeased  from 


HUSBAND 
(or)  WIFE  of 


(Cive  maiden  name  of  wife  in  full) 
(Husband's  name  in  full) 


I las1 


, 1 9.U.£....,  -to  ..^T.LrtriA 6. 19&£... 

ir  law  h...Lrv^.  alive  on ^.C2Ua..«...6. 19.HL,  death  is  said  to 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive  pT yearsl 


have  occurred  on  tho  date  stated  above,  at S m. 


Immediate  oauae  of  death.. 


*1  IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


SoeM. Years 


Months 


200a 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours Minutes 


Usual 

9 Occuoaticn: 


R= 1 1.  r.etl . 


Oue  to  . 


Industry  _ . , . . 

10  or  Business:  .CliA'.ldr.0i4a...lli$).l0y.eP.. 


Oue  to.. 


11  Social  Security  No UOT1  A . 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City)  ItQCiUL&UCL 


( Slate  or  country) 


Maine 


Other  conditions.. 

( Include  pregnancy 


k*T.. 

in  3 months  of  death) 


13  NAME  OF 

father  Oscar  Healey 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations  . 


14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 


FATHER  (City)  . 
(State  or  country) 


Rocicland 


Date  of.. 


Maine 


15  MAIOEN  NAME 

of  mother  Elvira  Hosier 


Of  autopsy 

What  test  confirmed  diagnosis?  .. 


Duration 


••iM+'QfPfANT 


Lx 


IMPORTANT  , 
Physician 


Underline 
the  cause  to 
which  death 
should  h • 
charged  sta- 
tistically. 


16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 


MOTHER  (City)  . 
(State  or  country) 


Roctciand 


20  Was  disease  pr  injury  in  any  way  related  to  oooupatlon  of  deoeased  ? LLttT' 
If  so,  $peoify.....7. .. A 

(Slgned)..7X-af^i_<_*a Xfc:. M.  D. 


Maine 


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17 


Informant  Etnal  W.  Healey.  ( W’  M ‘ny 

(Address)  iji  Lincoln  St.'.  a/.. 


21  .Wi.nt.ur.Qi>. QSMm 

Place  of  Burial,  Cremation  or  Removal.  (City  or  Town) 

DATE  OF  BURIAL...  J.&tt. ...... IQ. ».. .19.45 W 


I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  a satisfactory  standard  oertlfloata  of  death  was 
(lied  ^Ith  BEFORE  the  burial  or  transit  permit  wat  Issued! 

(Sifiiaiiire  of  of  Board  oil  nr  othft)  / 

/.Lb./. 

(Official  Deslgnationf//  / (Date  of  I«eue  of  /Permit 


22  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR 


r 


address  ..1.47....Iiia.t!ur.o.jri....S.t..* , ...Wimorap. _.. 


Reoeived  and  Nled.. 


V 


V u\piei  tees  / 


extracts  from  the  laws  OF  the 
COMMONWEALTH  OF  MASSACHUSETTS 
GOVERNING  THE 

return  of  certificates  of  death 

r-rtitUrid  hosDital  medical  officer  shall  forthwith,  after 
f £r"n  whom  he his .ttUd  during  hie  Let  illness.  at  the 
the  death  of  a person  wnom  «.r  person  or  of  anv  member  of 

requeel  of  an  u'idert.ker  or  othe_^  ( <Unrt,rd  certificate 

^riie  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief  the  name  of  the 
death  ...  Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  46,  Sec.  9. 

humlred  and  fourteen,  the  word  war  ►h»l.,1"cl',  e ‘ e , he 

can  border  service  of  nineteen  hundred  and  sixteen  and  nineteen  bund 
•nd  aeventeen.  G.  L.  Chap.  46,  Sec.  10.  ....  . . 

No  undertaker  or  other  peraon  shall  bury  or  otherwise  dispose  of  a human 

KfS  M3U1TS1?  aWW  &vS 

£SS  Ss.  ~h=  rvsi  rsu-JST.wa  lag 

tomb  to^ another  in  the  same  cemetery,  until  he  has  received,,  perrmt  from 

where” the  bod^U* burfed!*  No^ch  permit  shall  be  issued  until  there  shall 
Sve  been  delivered  to  such  board,  agent  or  clerk,  as  the  case  may  be. 
a satisfactory  written  statement  containing  the  facts  required  by l*w 
returned  and  recorded,  which  shall  be  accompanied,  in  case  of  an  original 
interment  by  a satisfactory  certificate  of  the  attending  .physician,  if  any, 

I*  there'^^no^tUmding  'phvsfieianf  mr*  if^  for^uthcient  8reasm!^*h\Vcenrfl^a?e 

c?an°»hoe ia^j^membm^of  *theU  boari/1  o'ffi  emp* & 'the 

quired'^n?  ihe"  a t^endhlg^phy  stcfan.  **1?  death' f^ca^ed'^^vUitenw^'tl^^Mlj 
cal  examiner  shall  make  such  certificate.  If  such  a permit  for  the  removal 
ot  a human  body,  not  previously  interred,  from  one  town  to  another  within 
the*  commonwealth  cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  the 
^rtiflcate  of  death  made  as  above  provided  and  in  the  possession  of  the 
undertaker  desiring  to  make  such  removal  shall  constitute  a permit  for 
mch  removal!  prodded,  that  such  body  shall  be  returned  to  the  town  from 
which  it  was  removed  within  thirty-six  hours  after  such  removal  mdes. 
a 'permit  in  the  usual  form  for  the  removal  of  such  body  has  been  sooner 
obtained  hereunder.  If  the  death  certificate  contains  a recital,  as  required 


hv  section  ten  of  chapter  forty-six,  that  the  deceased  served  In  tne  aray, 
na»y*or  Marine  rorpsof  the  United  State,  in  any  war  in  which  it  ha,  been 
engaged,  such  recital  shall  appear  upon  the  permit.  The  board I of ' 
or  its  agent,  upon  receipt  of  such  statement  and  certificate,  shall  forthwith 
countersign  it  and  transmit  it  to  the  clerk  of  the  town  for  registration. 
The  person  to  whom  the  permit  is  so  given  and  the  physician  certifying 
the  cause  of  death  shall  thereafter  furnish  for  registration  any  oiher  necea- 
gary  information  which  can  be  obtained  as  to  the  deceased,  or  as  to  the 
manner  or  cause  of  the  death,  which  the  clerk  or  registrar  uiay  require. — 
Chap.  114.  Sec.  4 5.  G.  L„  (Tercentenary  Edition). 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  a human  body  or  the  ashea 
thereof  which  have  been  brought  Into  the  comnionwealih  until  he  has  re- 
ceived a ireriitit  so  to  do  from  the  board  of  health  or  its  agem  appointed  to 
issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  bodv  is  to  be  buried  or  the  funeral  is  to  be  held,  or  from  a person 
appointed  to  have  the  care  of  the  cemetery  or  burial  ground  in  which  the 
interment  is  made Chap.  114.  Sec.  4 6.  G.  L„  (Tercentenary  Edition). 

Medical  examiners  shall  make  examination  upon  the  view  of  the  dead 
bodies  of  only  such  persons  as  are  supposed  to  have  died  by  violence. 

If  a medical  examiner  has  notice  that  there  is  within  Ins  county  the  Imdy 
of  such  a person,  he  shall  forthwith  go  to  the  place  where  the  body  lies 
and  take  charge  of  the  same;  . . . — General  Laws,  Chap.  38,  Sec.  6. 

RULES  OF  PRACTICE 

The  fulfillment  of  the  purpose  of  these  laws  calls  for  the  observance  of 
the  following  rules  of  practice: 

(1)  Attending  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those  of 
persons  to  whom  they  have  given  bedside  care  during  a last  illness  from 
disease  unrelated  to  any  form  of  injury. 

(2)  Board  of  Health  phyaiolana  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those 
of  persons  who,  though  disabled  by  recognized  disease  unrelated  to  anv 
form  of  injury,  have  died  without  recent  medical  attendance  or  whose  physi- 
cian is  absent  from  home  when  the  certificate  of  death  is  needed. 

(*)  Medloal  Examiners  will  investigate  and  certify  to  all  death*  tup- 
posably  due  to  injury.  These  include  not  only  deaths  caused  directly  oi  in- 
directly by  traumatism  (including  resulting  septicemia),  and  by  the  action 
of  chemical  (drugs  or  poisons),  thermal,  or  electrical  agents,  and  death* 
following  abortion,  but  also  deaths  from  diseasa  resulting  from  injury  or 
Infeotion  related  to  oooupatlon,  the  sudden  deaths  of  persons  not  disabled 
by  reoognized  disease,  and  those  of  persons  found  dead. 

Statement  of  Cause  of  Death. — Cause  of  death  means  the  disease,  or 
complication  which  cauaea  death,  not  the  mode  of  dying,  e.  g.,  heart  failure, 
asphyxia,  asthenia,  etc.  As  principal  cause  name  the  disease  causing  death. 
As  related  causes,  name  earlier  morbid  conditions,  if  any,  related  to  the 
principal  cause  and  any  important  complication  of  the  principal  cause. 

Statement  of  Oooupatlon. — Precise  statement  of  occupation  ia  very  im- 
portant, so  that  the  relative  healthfulnesa  of  various  pursuits  can  be  known. 
Make  some  entry  in  this  section  for  every  persou  aged  10  years  or  over. 
If  the  occupation  had  been  given  up  or  changed  on  account  of  the  disease 
causing  death,  report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  illness.  If  the  deceased 
had  retired  from  business,  report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  retiremenL 
Children  not  gainfully  employed  may  be  returned  as  at  school  or  at  home. 
For  a woman  whose  only  occupation  was  that  of  home  housework,  write 
housework.  For  a person  engaged  in  domestic  service  for  wages,  however, 
designate  the  occupation  by  the  appropriate  terms,  at  housekeeper — -private 
family,  cook — hotel,  etc.  For  a person  who  had  no  occupation  whatever 
write  none. 


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OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


(City  or  town  making  return) 


Registered  No 

( (If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 
St.  I give  its  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 


(II  V.  S. 

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specify  WAR) 'LG...... 


2 FULL  

(If  deceased  is  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.) 

(a)  Residence.  No.  dze.: .^St. 

(Usual  place  of  abode)  ^ — (If  nonresident^  give  city  or  town  and  state) 

ength  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  institution  --years  - months  e)  days.  In  this  community  7*.  yrs.  mos.-^  days. 

(Specify  whether)  octy 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 


S SINGLE 
MARRIED 
WIDOWED 
or  DIVORCED 


(write  the  word) 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced 
HUSBAND  of 

(or)  WIFE  of... 

(Husband’s  ffode  in  full) 

G Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive /£>■  . years 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  eater  that  fact  here. 


8 

AGE 


..Years Months.. 


Usual 

9 Occupation: 


3? 


..Days 


Ii  less  than  1 day 
Hours Minutes 


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12  BIRTHPLACE  (City)  


(State  or  country) 


13  NAME  OF  '—7-'# 

FATHER  / £c<T14*.<Z<L. 

14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 

FATHER  (Citvl  

— // 

(State  or  country) 

15  MAIDEN  NAME<^3>  * 
OF  MOTHER 

16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 

MOTHER  (City)  

V^,^T . 

(State  or  country) 

Informant  ^ 
(Address) 


6 / to  A>£Z 


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CERTIFY  that  a satisfactory  standard  certificate  of  death  was 
"'"'ORE  the  J»urlal  or  transit  permit  was  issued: 


Board  of  H<^thi\S£bther 

Ljlfc/M- 

(Date  of  Issue  of  Permit),  ' ' 


DEATH 


(Year) 


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L.fZ i9...7^to 7.....^ wk.X' 

1 last  sat  eatb  is  said 

to  have 


22  NAME 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR  L.  .. 

ADDRESS 


City/oc'Town)  . _ 

'koJL 


Received  and  filed 

A TRUE  COPY  ATTEST: ' 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS  OF  THE 

COMMONWEALTH  OF  MASSACHUSETTS 

GOVERNING  THE 

RETURN  OF  CERTIFICATES  OF  DEATH 

A physician  or  registered  hospital  medical  officer  shall  forthwith, 
after  the  death  of  a person  whom  he  has  attended  during  his  last 
illness,  at  the  request  of  an  undertaker  or  other  authorized  person 
or  of  any  member  of  the  family  of  the  deceased,  furnish  for  regis- 
tration a standard  certificate  of  death,  stating  to  the  best  of  his 
knowledge  and  belief  the  name  of  the  deceased,  his  supposed  age, 
the  disease  of  which  he  died,  defined  as  required  by  section  one, 
where  same  was  contracted,  the  duration  of  his  last  illness,  when  last 
seen  alive  by  the  physician  or  officer  and  the  date  of  his  death  . . . 
Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  46,  Sec.  9. 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  or  otherwise  dispose  of  a 
human  body  in  a town,  or  remove  therefrom  a human  body  which 
has  not  been  buried,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from  the  board 
of  health  or  its  agent  appointed  to  issue  such  permits,  or  if  there 
is  no  such  board,  from  the  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  person  died  ; 
and  no  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  exhume  a human  body  and 
remove  it  from  a town,  from  one  cemetery  to  another,  or  from  one 
grave  or  tomb  other  than  the  receiving  tomb  to  another  in  the  same 
cemetery,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from  the  board  of  health  or 
its  agent  aforesaid  or  from  the  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  body  is 
buried.  No  such  permit  shall  be  issued  until  there  shall  have  been  de- 
livered to  such  board,  agent  or  clerk,  as  the  case  may  be,  a satisfac- 
tory written  statement  containing  the  facts  required  by  law  to  be 
returned  and  recorded,  which  shall  be  accompanied,  in  case  of  an 
original  interment,  by  a satisfactory  certificate  of  the  attending 
physician,  if  any,  as  required  by  law,  or  in  lieu  thereof  a certificate 
as  hereinafter  provided.  If  there  is  no  attending  physician,  or  if,  for 
sufficient  reasons,  his  certificate  cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for 
the  purpose,  or  is  insufficient,  a physician  who  is  a member  of  the 
board  of  health,  or  employed  by  it  or  by  the  selectmen  for  the  pur- 
pose, shall  upon  application  make  the  certificate  required  of  the  at- 
tending physician.  If  death  is  caused  by  violence,  the  medical  exam- 
iner shall  make  such  certificate.  If  such  a permit  for  the  removal  of 
a human  body,  not  previously  interred,  from  one  town  to  another 
within  the  commonwealth  cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the 
purpose,  the  certificate  of  death  made  as  above  provided  and  in  the 
possession  of  the  undertaker  desiring  to  make  such  a removal  shall 
constitute  a permit  for  such  removal  ; provided,  that  such  body  shall 
be  returned  to  the  town  from  which  it  was  removed  within  thirty- 
six  hours  after  such  removal,  unless  a permit  in  the  usual  form  for 
the  removal  of  such  body  has  been  sooner  obtained  hereunder.  If  the 
death  certificate  contains  a recital,  as  required  by  section  ten  of 
chapter  forty-six,  that  the  deceased  served  in  the  army,  navy  or 
marine  corps  of  the  United  States  in  any  war  in  which  it  has  been 
engaged,  such  recital  shall  appear  upon  the  permit.  The  board  of 
health,  or  its  agent,  upon  receipt  of  such  statement  and  certificate, 
shall  forthwith  countersign  it  and  transmit  it  to  the  clerk  of  the 
town  for  registration.  The  person  to  whom  the  permit  is  so  given 
and  the  physician  certifying  the  cause  of  death  shall  thereafter  fur- 
nish for  registration  any  other  necessary  information  which  can  be 


obtained  as  to  the  deceased,  or  as  to  the  manner  or  cause  of  the 
death,  which  the  clerk  or  registrar  may  require.— Chap.  114,  Sec.  46, 
G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition.) 


No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  a human  body  or  the 
ashes  thereof  which  have  been  brought  into  the  commonwealth  until 
he  has  received  a permit  so  to  do  from  the  board  of  health  or  its 
agent  appointed  to  issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board, 
from  the  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  body  is  to  be  buried  or  the 
funeral  is  to  be  held,  or  from  a person  appointed  to  have  the  care 
of  the  cemetery  or  burial  ground  in  which  the  interment  is  made. . . . 
Chap.  114,  Sec.  46,  G.  L„  ( Tercentenary  Edition.) 


RULES  OF  PRACTICE 

The  fulfillment  of  the  purpose  of  these  laws  calls  for  the  observ- 
ance of  the  following  rules  of  practice : 

(1)  Attending  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those 
of  persons  to  whom  they  have  given  bedside  care  during  a last  ill- 
ness from  disease  unrelated  to  any  form  of  injury. 

(2)  Hoard  of  Health  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only 

as  those  of  persons  who,  though  disabled  by  recognized  disease  un- 
related to  any  form  of  injury,  have  died  without  recent  medical 
attendance  or  whose  physician  is  absent  from  home  when  the 
certificate  of  death  is  needed.  , 

(3)  Medical  Examiners  will  investigate  and  certify  to  all  deaths 
supposably  due  to  injury.  These  include  not  only  deaths  caused 
directly  or  indirectly  by  traumatism  (including  resulting  septice- 
mia), and  by  the  action  of  chemical  (drugs  or  poisons),  thermal, 
or  electrical  agents,  and  deaths  following  abortion,  but  also  deaths 
from  disease  resulting  front  injury  or  infection  related  to  occupa- 
tion, the  sudden  deaths  of  persons  not  disabled  by  recognized 
disease,  and  those  of  persons  found  dead. 


Statement  of  Cause  of  Death.— —Cause  of  death  means  the  disease, 
or  complication  which  causes  death,  not  the  mode  of  dying,  e.  g., 
heart  failure,  asphyxia,  asthenia,  etc.  As  principal  cause  name  the 
disease  causing  death.  As  related  causes,  name  earlier  morbid  con- 
ditions, if  any,  related  to  the  principal  cause  and  any  important 
complication  of  the  principal  cause. 


Statement  of  Occupation. — Precise  statement  of  occupation  is  very 
important,  so  that  the  relative  healthfulness  of  various  pursuits 
can  be  known.  Make  some  entry  in  this  section  for  every  person 
aged  10  years  or  over.  If  the  occupation  had  been  given  up  or 
changed  on  account  of  the  disease  causing  death,  report  the  usual 
occupation  prior  to  illness.  If  the  deceased  had  retired  from  busi- 
ness, report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  retirement.  Children  not 
gainfully  employed  may  be  returned  as  at  school  or  at  home.  For  a 
woman  whose  only  occupation  was  that  of  home  housework,  write 
housework.  For  a person  engaged  in  domestic  service  for  wages, 
however,  designate  the  occupation  by  the  appropriate  terms,  as 
housekeeper — private  family,  cook — hotel,  etc.  For  a person  who  had 
no  occupation  whatever  write  none. 


SPACE  FOR  ADDITIONAL  INFORMATION 


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Danvers 

(City  or  Town) 

no.  ...Danvers £.t.a..t.e HQ.s.p.i.t.al . si.  j 


tUlje  (Emttmtmfbraltlf  of  JWasBacljttsetis 

OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

COPY  OF 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


Danver s 

(City  or  town  making  return) 


Registered  No. 


7 


(If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 
give  its  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 


2 FULL  NAME. 


?.avis f rto™. 

(If  deceased  is  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.)  1 speoify  WAR)  

, . _ „ 249  Lahore  Drive  ..  Winthrop^ 

(a)  Residence.  No SL  .-ft. 

(Usual  place  of  abode)  (If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 

Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  Institution years  months  7 days. 

(Before  death)  (Specify  whether) 


In  this  oommunlty 


days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


3 SEX 


male  white 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 

MARRIED 

WIDAWfiB-rj  ed 


18  ddeaaTth0F  . Jan ....  8 , 1945 

(Month)  (Day)  (Year) 


&*Maxy. B.<j 

(Give  maiden  name  of  wife  in  full) 

(or)  WIFE  of  

(Husband's  name  in  full) 

6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive  Q..Q. years 


19  I HEREBY  CERTIFY,  That  I attended  deoeased  from 

e J.&xu I 19 45,  toJj&Jl* feU v, 19....4.5 

I last  saw  h iffi.. alive  on Jan  . _ 8 5(|eaih  Is  said  to 

have  occurred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at..<ff..T...^.^ m. 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  faot  here. 


'Tr£e  r io  sfcdlae 'vo'tid he  art di'sea^e" 

i r-IBG-, 


8 

AGE ^..+Years 


ei> 


Months.. 


..Days 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours Minutes 


Due  to.. 


usual  Manufact  urer 

9 Oooupatlon:  


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


Fire  works 


Due  to.. 


11  sooiai  security  no cannot b.e le.ajxie.5I 

12  BIRTHPLACE  (City)  l h})..B Q.St.Q.h 


Other  conditions 

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


(State  or  country) 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 

Warren  Davis 

14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
FATHER  (City) 
(State  or  country) 

Bolton 

Canada 

15  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 

Ellen  Cragg 

16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
MOTHER  (City) 

Milton 

(State  or  country) 

Major  findings: 
Of  operations.. 


Date  of  . 


Physician 

Underline 
the  cause  to 
which  death 
should  b e 

, charged  sta- 

Of  autopsy ..  ,, 

Clinl  Cfii  tiatically. 

What  test  oonfirmed  diagnosis? .Y±.±.....±..r’.“±.. 

20  Was  disease  or  injury  in  any  way  related  to  occupation  of  deoeased? 

If  so,  speoify.pa.s.„.a.a.^.e.....g.u.0.n.i..c.on.t.0 

(Sioned > -•  "Dali 1/12*  M*4Ife 


Duration 


Relation,  if  any 


jar;- 


-) 


(Address)  Date.. 

21  place  of  BURiA’uinthrc p in throp 

CREMATION  OR  REMOVAL 5. 

(Cemetery)  n / T 1 / ^yCity  or  Town) 

DATE  OF  BURIAL  ... 19 


DATE  FILED 


1^7^‘ty 


22  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR 


ADDRESS 


JotUl'F.  c;  •Malay 


or  town  where  death  occurred) 

19  . 


Reoeived  and  filed 19 

(Registrar  of  City  or  Town  where  deceased  resided) 


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OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


(City  or  town  making  return) 


Registrar’*  No. 


9 


3 FULL  NA 


(a)  Residence.  No, 


(Usual  place  of  abode) 


gt  ( (If  death^occurred  in  a>  hospital  or  institution, 

l i 


give  its  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 


(If  deceased  is  a m^Fied,  widowed  or  <Jj,vorced woman,  give 


PHYSICIAN— IMPORTANT 

(Was  deceased  a 

U.  S.  War  /eteran, 

if  so  specify  WAR) 


Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  Institution 


(Before  death) 


(Specify  whether) 


years 


months 


days. 


:,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 

In  this  community  vj*  yrs.  mos.  days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 
MARRIED  v.  » 

WIDOWED  <<i  t, 


18  DATE  OF 
DEATH  _ 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 

^ 


A;  CtflUtll-l. 


or  DIVORCED 


(Month) 


(Day) 


1 - 


(Year) 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced 
HUSBAND  of 


19 


EREBY  CERTIFY 


That  I attended  deceased  from 

i9. 


t Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive 


<2?-^rL 


7,  19^ , to  ft*  , 

I last’  saw  h t\' alive  on — j — Ijr,  19 , death  is  said  to 

have  occurred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at  U-3&  pc  M 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


Years-O^  Months^f^^ 


AGftrf. 


7 

Days 


If  less  than  1 day 
_Hours Minutes 


Immediate  cause  of  death 

-SLc>.y  ?*  t a YnD 


OtilQ 


Usual 
9 Occupation : 


Due  to_ 


Industry 
10  or  Business: 


Due  to- 


ll Social  Security  No 


her  conditions- 


(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings: 

’ ~f  operations- 


-Date  of- 


Of  autopsy- 


What  test  confirmed  diagnosis 7- 


Duration 

IMPORTANT 

fit 


IMPO 

T- 


IMPORTANT 

Physician 


1 

1 


Underline 
the  cause  to 
which  death 
should  be 
charged  sta- 
tistically. 


Informant  - 
(Address)  J 


Relation,  if  any 


I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  a satisfactory  standard  certificate  of  death 
wa*,fila4^ with  jjrt  BI^FTDRIJ  the  buYial  or  transit  permit  was  issued: 

Sl  ' 


Boar 


lesignatlom) 


20  Was  disease  or  injury  in  any  way  related  to  occupation  of  deceased 
If  so.  aoecifv . * ^ 1 

fSigneHl  TO-Vtl  j 

uhrajUlA><U*J 

+ , M T) 

(Address)  ll  A. 

P Tl 

r- V wftcX- 

si  q ./  1 

Date. iU an  : 19  -- 

21  13&UUL  iULAta* 

m.7  ‘i"?j 

Place  of  Burial,  CrematiiM  or 
- DATE  OF  BURIAL____J|i 

Removair 

(City  or  Tows)  Vg,.^ 

o iTj^F 

22  NAME  OF  Z<& 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR  OL7 

rj$  QJLl  . 

ADDRESS 

g^--^sgtrfz. 

Received  and  filed 

10 

A TRUE  COPY  ATTEST: 

(Registrar) 

EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS  OF  THE 
COMMONWEALTH  OF  MASSACHUSETTS 
GOVERNING  THE 

RETURN  OF  CERTIFICATES  OF  DEATH 

A physician  or  registered  hospital  medical  officer  shall  forthwith,  after 
the  death  of  a person  whom  he  has  attended  during  his  last  illness,  at  the 
-equest  of  an  undertaker  or  other  authorized  person  or  of  any  member  of 
he  family  of  the  deceased,  furnish  for  registration  a standard  certificate 
>f  death,  stating  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief  the  name  of  the 
deceased,  his  supposed  age,  the  disease  of  which  he  died,  defined  as  re- 
luired  by  section  one,  where  same  was  contracted,  the  duration  of  his  last 
llness,  when  last  seen  alive  by  the  physician  or  officer  and  the  date  of 
lis  death  . . . Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  46,  Sec.  9. 

A physician  or  officer  furnishing  a certificate  of  death  as  required  by  the 
receding  section  or  by  section  forty-five  of  chapter  one  hundred  and  four- 
;een,  shall,  if  the  deceased,  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief,  served 
n the  army,  navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  United  States  in  any  war  in  which 
t has  been  engaged,  insert  in  the  certificate  a recital  to  that  effect,  speci- 
ying  the  war,  and  shall  also  certify  in  such  certificate  both  the  primary 
ind  the  secondary  or  immediate  cause  of  death  as  nearly  as  he  can  state 
he  same.  For  neglect  to  comply  with  any  provision  of  this  section,  such 
ihysician  or  officer  shall  forfeit  ten  dollars.  For  the  purposes  of  this  sec- 
ion  and  of  sections  forty-five,  forty-six  and  forty-seven  of  said  chapter 
ine  hundred  and  fourteen,  the  word  “war”  shall  include  the  China  relief 
ixpedition  and  the  Philippine  insurrection,  which  shall,  for  said  purposes, 
>e  deemed  to  have  taken  place  between  February  fourteenth,  eighteen 
mndred  and  ninety-eight  and  July  fourth,  nineteen  hundred  and  two,  and 
he  Mexican  border  service  of  nineteen  hundred  and  sixteen  and  nine- 
een  hundred  and  seventeen.  G.  L.  Chap.  46,  Sec.  10. 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  or  otherwise  dispose  of  a human 
lody  in  a town,  or  remove  therefrom  a human  body  which  has  not  been 
turied,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from  the  board  of  health,  or  its 
gent  appointed  to  issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  from 
he  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  person  died;  and  no  undertaker  or  other 
lerson  shall  exhume  a human  body  and  remove  it  from  a town,  from  one 
emetery  to  another,  or  from  one  grave  or  tomb  other  than  the  receiving 
orab  to  another  in  the  same  cemetery,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from 
he  board  of  health  or  its  agent  aforesaid  or  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
rhere  the  body  is  buried.  No  such  permit  shall  be  issued  until  there  shall 
lave  been  delivered  to  such  board,  agent  or  clerk,  as  the  case  may  be, 

. satisfactory  written  statement  containing  the  facts  required  by  law  to  be 
eturned  and  recorded,  which  shall  be  accompanied,  in  case  of  an  original 
nterment,  by  a satisfactory  certificate  of  the  attending  physician,  if  any, 
s required  by  law,  or  in  lieu  thereof  a certificate  as  hereinafter  provided, 
f there  is  no  attending  physician,  or  if,  for  sufficient  reasons,  his  certificate 
annot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  or  is  insufficient,  a physi- 
ian  who  is  a member  of  the  board  of  health,  or  employed  by  it  or  by  the 
electmen  for  the  purpose,  shall  upon  application  make  the  certificate  re- 
uired  of  the  attending  physician.  If  death  is  caused  by  violence,  the  medi- 
al examiner  shall  make  such  certificate.  If  such  a permit  for  the  removal 
■f  a human  body,  not  previously  interred,  from  one  town  to  another  within 
he  commonwealth  cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  the 
ertificate  of  death  made  as  above  provided  and  in  the  possession  of  the 
indertaker  desiring  to  make  such  removal  shall  constitute  a permit  for 
uch  removal;  provided,  that  such  body  shall  be  returned  to  the  town  from 
vhich  it  was  removed  within  thirty-six  hours  after  such  removal,  unless 
: permit  in  the  usual  form  for  the  removal  of  such  body  has  been  sooner 
ibtained  hereunder.  If  the  death  certificate  contains  a recital,  as  required 


by  section  ten  oi  chapter  torty-six,  mat  the  deceased  served  in  the  army, 
navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  United  States  in  any  war  in  which  it  has  been 
engaged,  such  recital  shall  appear  upon  the  permit.  The  board  of  health, 
or  its  agent,  upon  receipt  of  such  statement  and  certificate,  shall  forthwith 
countersign  it  and  transmit  it  to  the  clerk  of  the  town  for  registration. 
The  person  to  whom  the  permit  is  so  given  and  the  physician  certifying 
the  cause  of  death  shall  thereafter  furnish  for  registration  any  other  neces- 
sary information  which  can  be  obtained  as  to  the  deceased,  or  as  to  the 
manner  or  cause  of  the  death,  which  the  clerk  or  registrar  may  require. — 
Chap.  114,  Sec.  45,  G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition). 


Medical  examiners  shall  make  examination  upon  the  view  of  the  dead 
bodies  of  only  such  persons  as  are  supposed  to  have  died  by  violence. 
If  a medical  examiner  has  notice  that  there  is  within  his  county  the  body 
of  such  a person,  he  shall  forthwith  go  to  the  place  where  the  body  lies 
and  take  charge  of  the  same;  . . . — General  Laws,  Chap.  38,  Sec.  6. 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  a human  body  or  the  ashes 
thereof  which  have  been  brought  into  the  commonwealth  until  he  has  re- 
ceived a permit  so  to  do  from  the  board  of  health  or  its  agent  appointed  to 
issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  body  is  to  be  buried  or  the  funeral  is  to  be  held,  or  from  a person 
appointed  to  have  the  care  of  the  cemetery  or  burial  ground  in  which  the 
interment  is  made.  . . . Chap.  114,  Sec.  46,  G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition). 

RULES  OF  PRACTICE 

The  fulfillment  of  the  purpose  of  these  laws  calls  for  the  observance  of 
the  following  rules  of  practice: 

(1)  Attending  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those  of 
persons  to  whom  they  have  given  bedside  care  during  a last  illness  from 
disease  unrelated  to  any  form  of  injury. 

(2)  Board  of  Health  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those 
of  persons  who,  though  disabled  by  recognized  disease  unrelated  to  any 
form  of  injury,  have  died  without  recent  medical  attendance  or  whose  phy- 
sician is  absent  from  home  when  the  certificate  of  death  is  needed. 

(3)  Medical  Examiners  will  investigate  and  certify  to  all  deaths  sup- 
posably  due  to  injury.  These  include  not  only  deaths  caused  directly  or 
indirectly  by  traumatism  (including  resulting  septicemia),  and  by  the 
action  of  chemical  (drugs  or  poisons),  thermal,  or  electrical  agents,  and 
deaths  following  abortion,  but  also  deaths  from  disease  resulting  from 
injury  or  infection  related  to  occupation,  the  sudden  deaths  of  persons  not 
disabled  by  recognized-  disease,  and  those  of  persons  found  dead. 


Statement  of  Cause  of  Death. — Cause  of  death  means  the  disease,  or 
complication  which  causes  death,  not  the  mode  of  dying,  e.  g.,  heart  failure, 
asphyxia,  asthenia,  etc.  As  principal  cause  name  the  disease  causing  death. 
As  related  causes,  name  earlier  morbid  conditions,  if  any,  related  to  the 
principal  cause  and  any  important  complication  of  the  principal  cause. 


Statement  of  Occupation. — Precise  statement  of  occupation  is  very  im- 
portant, so  that  the  relative  healthfulness  of  various  pursuits  can  be  known. 
Make  some  entry  in  this  section  for  every  person  aged  10  years  or  over. 
If  the  occupation  had  been  given  up  or  changed  on  account  of  the  disease 
causing  death,  report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  illness.  If  the  deceased 
had  retired  from  business,  report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  retirement. 
Children  not  gainfully  employed  may  be  returned  as  at  school  or  at  home. 
For  a woman  whose  only  occupation  was  that  of  home  housework,  write 
housework.  For  a person  engaged  in  domestic  service  for  wages,  how- 
ever,  designate  the  occupation  by  the  appropriate  terms,  as  housekeeper— 
private  family,  cook — hotel,  etc.  For  a person  who  had  no  occupation 
whatever  write  none. 


SPACE  FOR  ADDITIONAL  INFORMATION 


If  deceased  was  a U.  S.  War  Vetsran,  Q.  L.  Chap.  46,  Section  10,  requires  physloians  to  Insert  a reoital  to  that  effeot. 


101  A 


No. 


2 FULL  NAME 


(City  or  ' 

3 ± 


®hc  (JTonimoti&traHIt  of  ^fa^sarlptartt* 
OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTIC* 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


To  bo  filed  for  burial  permit 
with  Board  of  Health 


Registered  No, 


or  its  Agent,  . 

ill 


iXL- 


( (If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 
”*•  | jive  its  N All K instead  of  street  and  number) 


ased  is  a married,  widowed  pr  divorced  woman,  jive  also J mait 

. 3.U.. UlL&a use. w...Qdj.. ,.y>2e....: 


(a)  Residence.  No. 

(Usual  place  of  abode) 

Length  of  stay:  In  nnsoltal  nr  Institution 

(Before  death)  (Specify  whether) 


PHYSICIAN  - IMPORT^ 

(Was  deoeased  a /,')  s*-, 

U.  S.  War  Veteran,  if 

so  specify  WARpO..C^^..jrj 


(If  nonresident,  gTee-eity  of  town  and  State) 

year*  months  days.  In  this  community  , - 0 yrs.  mos.  day*. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


3 SEX  - <*  Lui-urt  un 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 


5 SINGLE 
MA, 
WIDOWED 


18  DATE  OF  '71  _ / X » / ^ 

death J /.qtJTLX. 

/ / (Month)  (Thy)  (Tear) 

I HERLfir  C E,.R  T I F 

.^19 


19 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced 

HUSBAND  of  

(Give  maiden  name  of  wife  in  full) 

(or)  WIFE  of  

(Husband's  name  in  full) 

6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive  years 


V,  /that 




I attended  deceased  from 
, 19. 


*1  IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


I last  saw  h •^/'T.allve  on......^:C zz.  , death  is  said  to 

have  occurred  on  tha  data  stated  above,  at .../&. m. 

Immediate  oause  of  death.. 

" PORTANT 


zJA 


Years  Months Days 


Usual 

9 Occuoation: 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours Minutes 


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


I.  

Due  to 

to7^..^^.Iv..T.....v **7^ 


ll  Social  Security  No.  ... 

'2  BIRTHPLACE  (Cily) 
( Siste  or  country) 


Due 


Other  condltlofis.. 

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


13  NAME  OF  / 

father^ AbfJ /VLAJJ Ae 

0/(1  Q 0 

14  BIRTHPLACE  OF  Y ‘ 
FATHER  ( Cilv) 

(State  or  country) 

15  MAIDEN  NAM SyAA 

of  mother 

Major  findings: 
Of  operations . 


Of  autopsy 

What  test  confirmed  diagnosis?. 


IMPORTANT 

Physician 


Data  of.. 


MOTHER  (City) 
(Staleor  country) 


20  Was  disease  or  injury  in  any  way  related  to  oooupatlon  of  deoeased?.. 

If  so,  speoify 

m.  d. 

fate  i9...^J- 


21 

Place  of  Burial,  Creniat, 
DATE  OF  BURIAL. 


or-Hemoval.  (City  or  Town)  v 

19.^6 


22  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRKTOI 


I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  a satisfactory  standard  oertifioate  of  death  was 
filed  with  me  BEFORE  the  6uri»T  or  transit  permit  was  Issued: 



/ / t® ^nature  of  Agent  of  Board  of  JfpaWf  or  other)  , 

(Official  Designation)!/  7/  (hate  of  faeue  of  Pernili) 


ADDRESS 


Reoelved  and  died.. 


19.. 


( Registrar) 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS  OF  THE 
COMMONWEALTH  OF  MASSACHUSETTS 
GOVERNING  THE 

RETURN  OF  CERTIFICATES  OF  DEATH 

A physioian  or  registered  hospital  medical  offioer  shall  forthwith,  after 
the  dealt)  of  a person  whom  he  has  attended  during  his  last  illness,  at  the 
request  of  an  undertaker  or  other  authorized  person  or  of  any  member  of 
the  family  of  the  deceased,  furnish  for  registration  a standard  certificate 
of  deaih.  slating  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief  the  name  of  the 
deceased,  his  supposed  age,  the  disease  of  which  he  died,  defined  as  re- 
quired by  section  one.  where  same  was  contracted,  the  duration  of  his  last 
Illness,  when  last  seen  alive  by  the  physician  or  officer  and  the  date  of  hia 
death  ...  Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  4 6,  Sec.  6. 

A physician  or  officer  furnishing  a certificate  of  death  as  required  by  the 
preceding  section  or  by  section  forty-five  of  chapter  one  hundred  and  four- 
teen, shall,  if  the  deceased,  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief,  served 
in  the  army,  navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  I’nited  States  in  any  war  in  which 
It  has  been  engaged,  insert  in  the  certificate  a recital  to  that  effect,  sjieci- 
fying  the  war.  and  shall  also  certify  in  such  certificate  both  the  primary 
and  the  secondary  or  immediate  cause  of  death  as  nearly  as  he  can  state 
the  same.  For  neglect  to  comply  with  any  provision  of  this  section,  such 
physician  or  officer  shall  forfeit  ten  dollars.  For  the  purposes  of  this  sec- 
tion and  of  sections  forty-five,  fortv-si*  and  forty-seven  of  said  chapter  one 
hundred  and  fourteen,  the  word  “war”  shall  include  the  China  relief  ex- 
pedition and  the  Philippine  insurrection,  which  shall,  for  said  purposes,  be 
deemed  to  have  taken  place  between  February  fourteenth,  eighteen  hundred 
and  ninety-eight  and  July  fourth,  nineteen  hundred  and  two,  and  the  Mexi- 
can border  service  of  nineteen  hundred  and  sixteen  and  nineteen  hundred 
and  seventeen.  G.  L.  Chap.  4 6,  Sec.  10. 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  or  otherwise  dispose  of  a human 
bodv  in  a town,  or  remove  therefrom  a human  body  which  has  not  been 
buried,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from  the  board  of  health,  or  its 
agent  appointed  to  issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  from 
the  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  person  died;  and  no  undertaker  or  other 
person  shall  exhume  a human  body  and  remove  it  from  a town,  from  one 
cemetery  to  another,  or  from  one  grave  or  tomb  other  than  the  receiving 
tomb  to  another  in  the  same  cemetery,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from 
the  board  of  health  or  its  agent  aforesaid  or  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  body  is  buried.  No  such  permit  shall  be  issued  until  there  shall 
have  been  delivered  to  such  board,  ageot  or  clerk,  as  the  case  may  be, 
a satisfactory  written  statement  containing  the  facts  required  by  law  to  be 
returned  and  recorded,  which  shall  be  accompanied,  in  case  of  an  original 
interment,  by  a satisfactory  certificate  of  the  attending  physician,  if  any, 
as  required  by  law.  oi  in  lieu  thereof  a certificate  as  hereinafter  provided. 
If  there  is  no  attending  physician,  or  if,  for  sufficient  reasons,  his  certificate 
cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  or  is  insufficient,  a physi- 
cian who  is  a member  of  the  board  of  health,  or  employed  by  it  or  by  the 
selectmen  for  the  purpose,  shall  upon  application  make  the  certificate  re- 
quired of  Ihe  attending  physician.  If  death  is  caused  by  violence,  the  medi- 
cal examiner  shall  make  such  certificate.  If  such  a permit  for  the  removal 
of  a human  body,  not  previously  interred,  from  one  town  to  another  within 
the  commonwealth  cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  the 
certificate  of  death  made  as  above  provided  and  in  the  possession  ot  the 
undertaker  desiring  to  make  6uch  removal  shall  constitute  a permit  for 
such  removal;  provided,  that  such  body  shall  be  returned  to  the  town  from 
which  it  was  removed  within  thirty-six  hours  after  such  removal,  unless 
a permit  in  the  usual  form  for  the  removal  of  such  body  has  been  sooner 
obtained  hereunder.  If  the  death  certificate  contains  a recital,  as  required 


by  section  ten  of  chapter  forty-six,  that  the  deceased  aerred  in  the  army, 
navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  I'nited  States  in  any  war  In  which  It  has  been 
engaged,  such  recital  shall  appear  upon  the  permit.  The  board  of  health, 
or  its  agent,  upon  receipt  of  such  statement  and  certificate,  shall  forthwith 
countersign  it  and  transmit  it  to  the  clerk  of  the  town  for  registration. 
The  person  to  whom  the  permit  is  so  given  and  the  physician  certifying 
the  cause  of  death  shall  thereafter  furnish  for  registration  any  other  neces- 
sary information  which  can  be  obtained  as  to  the  deceased,  or  a*  to  the 
manner  or  cause  of  the  death,  which  the  clerk  or  registrar  may  require. — 
Chap.  114.  Sec.  46,  G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition). 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  a human  body  or  the  ashes 
thereof  which  have  been  brought  into  the  commonwealth  until  he  has  re- 
ceived a permit  so  to  do  from  the  board  of  health  or  its  agent  appointed  to 
issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  body  is  to  be  buried  or  the  funeral  is  to  be  held,  or  from  a person 
appointed  to  have  the  care  of  the  cemetery  or  burial  ground  in  which  the 
interment  is  made.  ...  Chap.  114.  Sec.  46.  G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Editiou). 


Medical  examiners  shall  make  examination  upon  the  view  of  the  dead 
bodies  of  only  such  persons  as  are  supposed  to  have  died  by  violence. 
If  a medical  examiner  has  notice  that  there  is  within  his  county  the  body 
of  such  a person,  he  shall  forthwith  go  to  the  place  where  the  body  liea 
and  take  charge  of  the  same;... — General  Laws,  Chap.  38,  Sec.  6. 

RULES  OF  PRACTICE 

The  fulfillment  of  the  purpose  of  these  laws  calls  for  the  observance  of 
the  following  rules  of  practice: 

(1)  Attending  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those  of 
persons  to  whom  they  have  given  bedside  care  during  a last  illness  from 
disease  unrelated  to  any  form  of  injury. 

(2)  Board  of  Health  physiolans  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those- 
of  persons  who,  though  disabled  by  recognized  disease  unrelated  to  any 
form  of  injury,  have  died  without  recent  medical  attendance  or  whose  physi- 
cian is  absent  from  home  when  the  certificate  of  death  is  needed. 

(3)  Medloal  Examiners  will  investigate  and  certify  to  all  death*  tup* 
posably  due  to  Injury.  These  include  not  only  deaths  caused  directly  or  in- 
directly by  traumatism  (including  resulting  septicemia),  and  by  the  action 
of  chemical  (drugs  or  poisons),  thermal,  or  electrical  agents,  and  death* 
following  abortion,  but  also  deaths  from  diseas*  resulting  from  injury  or 
Infeotion  related  to  oooupation,  the  sudden  deaths  of  persons  not  disabled 
by  reoognized  disease,  and  those  of  persons  found  dead. 


Statement  of  Causa  of  Death. — Cause  of  death  means  the  disease,  or 
complication  which  causes  death,  not  the  mode  of  dying,  e.  g.,  heart  failure, 
asphyxia,  asthenia,  etc.  As  principal  cause  name  the  disease  causing  death. 
As  related  causes,  name  earlier  morbid  conditions,  if  any,  related  to  the 
principal  cause  and  any  important  complication  of  the  principal  cause. 


Statement  of  Oooupation. — Precise  statement  of  occupation  is  very  im- 
portant, so  that  the  relative  healthfulness  of  various  pursuits  can  be  known. 
Make  some  entry  in  this  section  for  every  persou  aged  10  years  or  over. 
If  the  occupation  had  been  given  up  or  changed  on  account  of  the  disease 
causing  death,  report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  illness.  If  the  deceased 
had  retired  from  business,  report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  retiremenL 
Children  not  gainfully  employed  may  be  returned  as  at  school  or  at  home. 
For  a woman  whose  only  occupatiou  was  that  of  home  housework,  write 
housework.  For  a person  engaged  in  domestic  service  for  wages,  however, 
designate  the  occupation  by  t J>e  appropriate  terms,  as  housekeeper — private 
family,  cook — hotel,  etc.  For  a person  who  had  no  occupation  whatever 
write  none. 


SPACE  FOR  ADDITIONAL  INFORMATION 


I R- 


§ S.u££qUk 

W (County) 


tElfe  (Ecnruttunfitcalflj  of  ^Inssaaciptsett* 
OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


(City  or  town  making  return) 


-f  H? 

Registered  No 


o Winthrop 

(City  or  Town) 

< ■.)„+.  tt_.  _ 4 + oT  I (W  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 

£ No /. .i.Q.If  h 3C.Q.B Q.?....lID.WD..i.s'.X hQ.  .§. P. j. .XtS X St.  I sive  its  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 


Eft 


2 full  name. Elizabeth .H,....F^llram Hl.land j wle?y*\»ran. 

(If  deceased  is  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.)  f specify  WAB).. 


(a)  Residence.  No £12 

(Usual  place  of  abode) 
fcngth  of  stay : In  hospital  or  institution 


.Linc.Qln...S.i.... 

St.  ... 

(Specify  whether) 

years  1 months  ^ days. 

(If  nonresident,  givcdjty  or  town  and  state) 

In  this  community  2 J yrs.  m0s.  days. 

PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX  j 4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

female  I White 


S SINGLE 
MARRIED 
WIDOWED 
or  DIVORCED 


(write  the  word) 

Marrlett- 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced 

HUSBAND  of  

JOhll Civejfcide^njeafrd6  in  full) 
(or)  WIFE  of ^>yti 

(HusBana's*  name  in  full) 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive  . 


.6.9.. 


..years 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours Minutes 


Usual 

9 Occupation: Housewife-- 


10  or 


In<&83: Own Home., 


11  Social  Security  No. 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City) 


Bob  ton 


13  NAME  OF 

FATHER  John 

Fulham 

14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 

FATHER  (City)  

(State  or  country) 

Ireland 

15  MAIDEN  NAME 

OF  MOTHER  Ellen 

Leonard 

16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 

MOTHER  (Citv)  

(State  or  country) 

Ireland 

17 


Informant...  John Hi.la.nd. 

(Add^) LlnccOBu^ 


I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  a satisfactory  standard  certfficate  of  death  was 
Hied  /rith  me  BEFORE  the  burial  or  transit  permiLiwas  Issued: 


ADDRESS  .... 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


18  DATE  OF 
DEATH 


UX 


7SZZZM? 

(Day) (Year) 


BY  CERT  UFX  • lTbat  I attended  deceased  from 

.,  19...^ 

I last  saw  h...cC&LaIive  on 19.H/^fc  death  is  said 

to  have  occurred  on  the  dat^itated  above,  at..^.*../JD$in. 

Immediate  cause 


Due  to  S 

/ 


Other  conditions  

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings 
Of  operations 


ate 


oU±/±uy..^ 


Of  autopsy  

What  test  confirmed  diagnosis  ? . 


PHYSICIAN 

Underline 
the  cause  to 
which  death 
should  be 
charged  sta- 
tistically. 


20  Was  disease  or  Injury  lo  any  way  related  lo  occopatlon  ol  deceased  T .... 

If  to,  specify.. 

(Signed) I y. M.  D. 

19  S/.C 

— Wlnthrop — fflnthitfep 

•/• 

Place  of  Burial,  Cremation  or  Removal^ 

DATE  OF  BURIAL JaD*  ../Jkjg.,, 

22  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR 


21 


Received  and  filed 

a"  TRUE ' CO W ATTEST: 


-•» 

/ 

(Registrar) 


V 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS  OF  THE 

COMMONWEALTH  OF  MASSACHUSETTS 

GOVERNING  THE 

RETURN  OF  CERTIFICATES  OF  DEATH 

A physician  or  registered  hospital  medical  officer  shall  forthwith, 
after  the  death  of  a person  whom  he  has  attended  during  his  last 
illness,  at  the  request  of  an  undertaker  or  other  authorized  person 
or  of  any  member  of  the  family  of  the  deceased,  furnish  for  regis- 
tration a standard  certificate  of  death,  stating  to  the  best  of  his 
knowledge  and  belief  the  name  of  the  deceased,  his  supposed  age, 
the  disease  of  which  he  died,  defined  as  required  by  section  one, 
where  same  was  contracted,  the  duration  of  his  last  illness,  when  last 
seen  alive  by  the  physician  or  officer  and  the  date  of  his  death  . . . 
Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  46,  Sec.  9. 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  or  otherwise  dispose  of  a 
human  body  in  a town,  or  remove  therefrom  a human  body  which 
has  not  been  buried,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from  the  board 
of  health  or  its  agent  appointed  to  issue  such  permits,  or  if  there 
is  no  such  board,  from  the  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  person  died  ; 
and  no  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  exhume  a human  body  and 
remove  it  from  a town,  from  one  cemetery  to  another,  or  from  one 
grave  or  tomb  other  than  the  receiving  tomb  to  another  in  the  same 
cemetery,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from  the  board  of  health  or 
its  agent  aforesaid  or  from  the  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  body  is 
buried.  No  such  permit  shall  be  issued  until  there  shall  have  been  de- 
livered to  such  board,  agent  or  clerk,  as  the  case  may  be,  a satisfac- 
tory written  statement  containing  the  facts  required  by  law  to  be 
returned  and  recorded,  which  shall  be  accompanied,  in  case  of  an 
original  interment,  by  a satisfactory  certificate  of  the  attending 
physician,  if  any,  as  required  by  law,  or  in  lieu  thereof  a certificate 
as  hereinafter  provided.  If  there  is  no  attending  physician,  or  if,  for 
sufficient  reasons,  his  certificate  cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for 
the  purpose,  or  is  insufficient,  a physician  who  is  a member  of  the 
board  of  health,  or  employed  by  it  or  by  the  selectmen  for  the  pur- 
pose, shall  upon  application  make  the  certificate  required  of  the  at- 
tending physician.  If  death  is  caused  by  violence,  the  medical  exam- 
iner shall  make  such  certificate.  If  such  a permit  for  the  removal  of 
a human  body,  not  previously  interred,  from  one  town  to  another 
within  the  commonwealth  cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the 
purpose,  the  certificate  of  death  made  as  above  provided  and  in  the 
possession  of  the  undertaker  desiring  to  make  such  a removal  shall 
constitute  a permit  for  such  removal  ; provided,  that  such  body  shall 
be  returned  to  the  town  from  which  it  was  removed  within  thirty- 
six  hours  after  such  removal,  unless  a permit  in  the  usual  form  for 
the  removal  of  such  body  has  been  sooner  obtained  hereunder.  If  the 
death  certificate  contains  a recital,  as  required  by  section  ten  of 
chapter  forty-six,  that  the  deceased  served  in  the  army,  navy  or 
marine  corps  of  the  United  States  in  any  war  in  which  it  has  been 
engaged,  such  recital  shall  appear  upon  the  permit.  The  board  of 
health,  or  its  agent,  upon  receipt  of  such  statement  and  certificate, 
shall  forthwith  countersign  it  and  transmit  it  to  the  clerk  of  the 
town  for  registration.  The  person  to  whom  the  permit  is  so  given 
and  the  physician  certifying  the  cause  of  death  shall  thereafter  fur- 
nish for  registration  any  other  necessary  information  which  can  be 


obtained  ns  to  the  deceased,  or  as  to  the  manner  or  cause  of  the 
death,  which  the  clerk  or  registrar  may  require.— Chap.  114,  Sec.  46, 
G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition.) 


No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  a human  body  or  the 
ashes  thereof  which  have  been  brought  into  the  commonwealth  until 
he  has  received  a permit  so  to  do  from  the  board  of  health  or  its 
agent  appointed  to  issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board, 
from  the  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  body  is  to  be  buried  or  the 
funeral  is  to  be  held,  or  from  a person  appointed  to  have  the  care 
of  the  cemetery  or  burial  ground  in  which  the  interment  is  made,  . . . 
Chap.  114,  Sec.  46,  G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition.) 


RULES  OF  PRACTICE 

The  fulfillment  of  the  purpose  of  these  laws  calls  for  the  observ- 
ance of  the  following  rules  of  practice : 

(1)  Attending  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those 
of  persons  to  whom  they  have  given  bedside  care  during  a last  ill- 
ness from  disease  unrelated  to  any  form  of  injury. 

(2)  Board  of  Health  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only 

as  those  of  persons  who,  though  disabled  by  recognized  disease  un- 
related to  ar.y  form  of  injury,  have  died  without  recent  medical 
attendance  or  whose  physician  is  absent  from  home  when  the 
certificate  of  death  is  needed.  , 

(3)  Medical  Examiners  will  investigate  and  certify  to  all  deaths 
sapposably  due  to  injury.  These  include  not  only  deaths  caused 
directly  or  indirectly  by  traumatism  (including  resulting  septice- 
mia), and  by  the  action  of  chemical  (drugs  or  poisons),  thermal, 
or  electrical  agents,  and  deaths  following  abortion,  but  also  deaths 
from  disease  resulting  from  injury  or  infection  related  to  occupa- 
tion, the  sudden  deaths  of  persons  not  disabled  by  recognized 
disease,  and  those  of  persons  found  dead. 


Statement  of  Causo  of  Death. — Cause  of  death  means  the  disease, 
or  complication  which  causes  death,  not  the  mode  of  dying,  e.  p., 
heart  failure,  asphyxia,  asthenia,  etc.  As  principal  cause  name  the 
disease  causing  death.  As  related  causes,  name  earlier  morbid  con- 
ditions, if  any,  related  to  the  principal  cause  and  any  important 
complication  of  the  principal  cause. 


Statement  of  Occupation. — Precise  statement  of  occupation  is  very 
important,  so  that  the  relative  healthfulness  of  various  pursuits 
can  be  known.  Make  some  entry  in  this  section  for  every  person 
aged  10  years  or  over.  If  the  occupation  had  been  given  up  or 
changed  on  account  of  the  disease  causing  death,  report  the  usual 
occupation  prior  to  illness.  If  the  deceased  had  retired  from  busi- 
ness, report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  retirement.  Children  not 
gainfully  employed  may  be  returned  as  at  school  or  at  home.  For  a 
woman  whose  only  occupation  was  that  of  home  housework,  write 
housework.  For  a person  engaged  in  domestic  service  for  wages, 
however,  designate  the  occupation  by  the  appropriate  terms,  as 
housekeeper — private  family,  cook — hotel,  etc.  For  a person  who  had 
no  occupation  whatever  write  none. 


SPACE  FOR  ADDITIONAL  INFORMATION 


•strict*  from  the  laws  on  back  of  certificate. 

If  deceased  was  a U.  S.  War  Veteran,  G.  L.  Chap.  46,  Seotlon  10,  requires  physicians  to  Insert  a reoital  to  that  effeot. 


•301  A 


fl 

2 

o 

u. 

o 

id 

o 

5 

V.Q. 


Suffolk 

(County) 


.Wi.jft6Jur.oj? 

(City  or  Town) 


tUbr  CToitimoti&traHIt  of  (iftasssrlfttsrtfa 
OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTIC* 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


1 


To  be  filed  for  burial  permit  ! 
with  Board  of  Health 
or  its  Agent. 

4 o 

JL.-W- 


Registered  No 

u.  fih  WonHai  oa  ir®  ( (It  death  occurred  In  ■ hospital  or  Inatltution, 

No.  - 51.  j ?(ve  jti  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 


2 FULL  NAME. 


J JEWS'* ^portant 


(If  deceased  Is  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  alio  maiden  name.) 

(a)  Residence.  No JS.Ci....WQfi.filS.i.a.fe...AY..e..a., St 

(Usual  place  of  abode) 


/(£?. 
1 U.  S. 
^ if  ao 


War  Veteran, 
apeoify  WAR) HOZ1S  • 


Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  nr  Institution 

( Before  death)  (Specify 


rhether) 


yeara 


months 


days. 


(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 
in  this  oommunity  rs.  mos.  days. 


personal  ano  statistical  particulars 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


3 SEX 

Male 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

Whi  u e 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 
MARRIED 
WIDOWED 

or  divorced  Married 


IS  DATE  OF  T 1Cl  1C  ,,- 

DEATH  Jan* .4?.j....l.S.'io.. 


(Month) 


(Day) 


(Year) 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  diaorced  _ . . , 

husband  of  FlftfeAi.e.  Thoeup.aQn...^^ 

(Give  maiden  name  of  wife  in  hill) 

(or)  WIFE  of  

(Husband’s  name  In  full) 

....59. 


19  l,H  ER  EB  Y CERTIFY,  That  I attended  deoeased  from 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive 


years 


».w.£.£..A#?..,  19..^..,  /..f....,  19 

I last  saw  h....Uri.r)..  alive  on 19  ;Jj"death  Is  said  to 

have  occurred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at !p.r&.40fi..m. 


*1  IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


Immediate  oause  of  death.. 


8 rj  A o , r,  I If  less  than  1 day 

AGE  (.7m.  Years  ..£....  Months ltd  Days  I Hours Minutes 


Usual  _ 

9 Occuoation:  Iie.t  IX.e.d.. 




S.Jc.r..«.!»..i.s 


Due  to 


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


Brito.....C.oai9k 


Due  to  . 


11  Social  Security  No. p Q 1 i (?  - 


Other  conditions.. 


(Slate  or  country) 

Nova.  Scotia. 

13  NAME  OF 

father  James 

Henry 

£L:ith 

14  birthplace  of 

FATHER  ( Citv)  

(State  or  country) 

No/a 

Scotia 

15  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 

Mary  Orchard. 

16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 

MOTHER  fCitv)  

(Slate  or  country) 

No/a 

Scotia 

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations. 


Date  of.. 


Of  autopsy 

What  test  confirmed  diagnosis?. 


Duration 


lALHOaXAMT 


At 


#«•' 


i 


IMPORTANT i 
Physician 


L’nderline 
the  cause  to 
which  death 
>houl<l  h e 
charged  sta- 
tistically. 


20  Was  disease  or  injury  in  ony 
If  so,  speoify 


(Signed) 
(A 


eoity.....^«  j 

ned  ) .....  ^.A.M7%ArfsL. 
ddfess) 


17 


' , . _ . . Relation,  If  any 

Informant  I.lQj^la...I..,....Sua  tA ( WlX© ) 

(Address)  COKOOgSiasli/e  ■ , nuw\f66 


M.  D, 

21  ..£urLfc.i&.»....Lam..~^ .31 

Place  of  Burial,  Cremation  or  Kemo^ji.  (City  or  Town) 

DATE  OF  BURIAL J.*a.e....22.,...l&.*& 19. 


to  oooupation  of  deoeased  ? fll.i.?. 

D. 

iff 


22  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR^. , . „ , „ 

address  1*7  W-nturop  St . , Wintnrop 


Reoeived  and  filed 




19 


(Registrar) 


7 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS  OF  THE 
COMMONWEALTH  OF  MASSACHUSETTS 
GOVERNING  THE 

RETURN  OF  CERTIFICATES  OF  DEATH 

A physioian  or  registered  hospital  medical  offioer  shall  forthwith.  after 
ie  death  of  a person  whom  he  has  attended  during  his  last  illness,  at  the 
*i|uesl  of  an  undertaker  or  other  authorized  person  or  ol  any  member  of 
he  family  of  the  deceased,  furnish  for  registration  a standard  certificate 
f death,  stating  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief  the  name  of  the 
eceascd,  his  supposed  age,  the  disease  of  which  he  died,  defined  ae  re- 
uired  by  section  one.  where  same  was  contracted,  the  duration  of  hia  last 
1 1 ness,  when  last  seen  alive  by  the  physician  or  officer  and  the  date  of  hia 
eath  . . . Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  <6,  Sec.  9. 

Al  physician  or  officer  furnishing  a certificate  of  death  as  required  by  the 
receding  section  or  by  section  forty-five  of  chapter  one  hundred  and  four- 
een,  shall,  if  the  deceased,  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief,  served 
a the  army,  navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  I'nited  States  in  any  war  in  which 
t has  been  engaged,  insert  in  the  certificate  a recital  to  that  effect,  speci- 
ying  the  war.  and  shall  also  certify  in  such  certificate  both  the  primary 
nd  the  secondary  or  immediate  cause  of  death  as  nearly  as  he  can  state 
he  same.  For  neglect  to  comply  with  any  provision  of  this  section,  such 
.hysician  or  officer  shall  forfeit  ten  dollars.  For  the  purjioses  of  this  sec- 
ion  and  of  sections  forty-five,  forty-six  and  forty-seven  of  said  chapter  one 
lUinlred  and  fourteen,  the  word  "war”  shall  include  the  China  relief  ex- 
edition  and  the  Philippine  insurrection,  which  shall,  for  said  purposes,  he 
leetucd  to  have  taken  place  between  February  fourteenth,  eighteen  hundred 
nd  ninety-eight  and  July  fourth,  nineteen  hundred  and  two,  and  the  Mexi- 
in  border  service  of  nineteen  hundred  and  sixteen  and  nineteen  hundred 
>nd  seventeen.  G.  L.  Chap.  46,  Sec.  10. 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  or  otherwise  dispose  of  a human 
Kxjv  in  a town,  or  remove  therefrom  a human  body  which  has  not  been 
turied,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from  the  board  of  health,  or  its 
igent  appointed  to  issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  from 
he  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  |>erson  died;  and  no  undertaker  or  other 
terson  shall  exhume  a human  body  and  remove  it  from  a town,  from  one 
temetery  to  another,  or  from  one  grave  or  tomb  other  thau  the  receiving 
;omb  to  another  in  the  same  cemetery,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from 
;he  board  of  health  or  its  agent  aforesaid  or  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
vhere  the  body  is  buried.  No  such  permit  shall  be  issued  until  there  shall 
tave  been  delivered  to  such  board,  ageot  or  clerk,  as  the  case  may  be, 
l satisfactory  written  statement  containing  the  facts  required  by  law  to  be 
etumed  and  recorded,  which  shall  be  accompanied,  in  case  of  an  original 
nterment,  by  a satisfactory  certificate  of  the  attending  .physician,  if  any, 
is  required  by  law.  oi  in  lieu  thereof  a certificate  as  hereinafter  provided, 
f there  is  no  attending  physician,  or  if,  for  sufficient  reasons,  his  certificate 
tannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  or  is  insufficient,  a physi- 
:ian  who  is  a member  of  the  board  of  health,  or  employed  by  it  or  by  the 
lelectmen  for  the  purpose,  shall  upon  application  make  the  certificate  re- 
quired of  the  attending  physician.  If  death  is  caused  by  violence,  the  medi- 
cal examiner  shall  make  such  certificate.  If  such  a permit  for  the  removal 
jf  a human  body,  not  previously  interred,  from  one  town  to  another  within 
ie  commonwealth  cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  the 
certificate  of  death  made  as  above  provided  and  in  the  possession  of  the 
indertaker  desiring  to  make  such  removal  shall  constitute  a permit  for 
luch  removal;  provided,  that  such  body  shall  be  returned  to  the  town  from 
which  it  was  removed  within  thirty-six  hours  after  such  removal,  unless 
i permit  in  the  usual  form  for  the  removal  of  such  body  has  been  sooner 
obtained  hereunder.  If  the  death  certificate  contains  a recital,  as  required 


by  section  ten  of  chapter  forty-six,  that  the  deceased  served  in  the  army, 
navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  United  States  in  any  war  in  which  It  has  been 
engaged,  such  recital  shall  appear  upon  the  permit.  The  board  of  health, 
or  its  agent,  upon  receipt  of  such  statement  and  certificate,  shall  forthwith 
countersign  it  and  transmit  it  to  the  clerk  of  the  town  for  registration. 
The  person  to  whom  the  permit  is  so  given  and  the  physician  certifying 
the  cause  of  death  shall  thereafter  furnish  for  registration  any  other  neces- 
sary information  which  can  be  obtained  as  to  the  deceased,  or  as  to  the 
manner  nr  cause  of  the  death,  which  the  clerk  or  registrar  may  require. — 
Chap.  114.  Sec.  4 5,  G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition). 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  a human  body  or  the  ashee 
thereof  which  have  been  brought  into  the  commonwealth  until  he  has  re- 
ceived a iiermit  so  to  do  front  the  board  of  health  or  its  agent  appointed  to 
issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  hoard,  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  body  is  to  be  buried  or  the  funeral  is  to  he  held,  or  from  a |>erson 
appointed  to  have  the  care  of  the  cemetery  or  burial  ground  in  which  the 
interment  is  made.  ...  Chap.  114.  Sec.  46.  G.  L,  (Tercentenary  Editiou). 


Medical  examiners  shall  make  examination  upon  the  view  of  the  dead 
bodies  of  only  such  persons  as  are  supposed  to  have  died  by  violence. 
If  a medical  examiner  has  notice  that  there  is  within  his  county  the  body 
of  such  a person,  he  shall  forthwith  go  to  the  place  where  the  body  lies 
and  take  charge  of  the  same;... — Ceneral  Laws,  Chap.  38,  See.  6. 

RULES  OF  PRACTICE 

The  fulfillment  of  the  purpose  of  these  laws  calls  for  the  observance  of 
the  following  rules  of  practice: 

( 1 ) Attending  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those  of 
persons  to  whom  they  have  given  bedside  care  during  a last  illness  from 
disease  unrelated  to  any  form  of  injury. 

(2)  Board  of  Health  physioians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  aa  those 
of  persons  who,  though  disabled  by  recognised  disease  unrelated  to  any 
form  of  injury,  have  died  without  recent  medical  attendance  or  whose  physi- 
cian is  absent  from  home  when  the  certificate  of  death  is  needed. 

(8)  Medioal  Examiners  will  investigate  and  certify  to  all  deaths  sup- 
posably  due  to  Injury.  These  include  not  only  deaths  caused  directly  ot  in- 
directly by  traumatism  (including  resulting  septicemia),  and  by  the  action 
of  chemical  (drugs  or  poisons),  thermal,  or  electrical  agents,  and  deaths 
following  abortion,  but  also  deaths  from  disease  resulting  from  injury  or 
Infeotion  related  to  oooupation,  the  sudden  deaths  of  persons  not  disabled 
by  reoognized  disease,  and  those  of  persons  found  dead. 


Statement  of  Cause  of  Death Cause  of  death  means  the  disease,  or 

complication  which  causes  death,  not  the  mode  of  dying,  e.  g.,  heart  failure, 
asphyxia,  asthenia,  etc.  Aa  principal  cause  name  the  disease  causing  death. 
As  related  causes,  name  earlier  morbid  conditions,  if  any,  related  to  tha 
principal  cause  and  any  important  complication  of  the  principal  cause. 


Statement  of  Oooupation. — Precise  statement  of  occupation  is  very  im- 
portant, so  that  the  relative  healthfulness  of  various  pursuits  can  be  known. 
Make  some  entry  in  this  section  for  every  person  aged  10  years  or  over. 
If  the  occupation  had  been  given  up  or  changed  on  account  of  the  disease 
causing  death,  report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  illness.  If  the  deceased 
bad  retired  from  business,  report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  retiremeoL 
Children  not  gainfully  employed  may  be  returned  as  at  school  or  at  home. 
For  a woman  whose  only  occupation  was  that  of  home  housework,  write 
housework.  For  a person  engaged  in  domestic  service  for  wages,  however, 
designate  the  occupation  by  tj)e  appropriate  terms,  aa  housekeeper — private 
family,  cook — hotel,  etc.  For  a person  who  had  no  occupation  whatever 
write  none. 


SPACE  FOR  ADDITIONAL  INFORMATION 


If  deceased  was  a U.  S.  War  Veteran,  G.  L..  Chap.  4B,  Sec.  10,  requires  physicians  to  insert  a recital  to  that  effect. 


/■W 

< 

W 

P" 


i A 


Suffolk 


(County) 


No. 


(City  or  Town) 

51  A tlantlc  St. 


(Eummojtfoeaitlj  of  $&assatl]usztt% 

OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


To  be  filed  tor  burial  permit 
with  Board  of  Health 
or  It*  Agent. 

A O 

Registrar’s  No.  A .3 


(.  f (If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 
( give  its  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 


Charles  J.  Tiews 


2 FULL  NAME 

(a) 

Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  Institution 


(If  deceased  is  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.) 


{PHI 

(Was 
U.  S. 
if  so 


PHYSICIAN— IMPORTANT 

deceased  a 
War  Veteran, 
specify  WAR) 


Residence.  No.  _ 

(Usual  place“of~abode 


(Before  death) 


(Specify  whether) 


years 


months 


days. 


(If  nonresident, 

In  this  commun^P 


yrs. 


town  and  5-tgte) 

rass.  days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


3 SEX 

Male 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

White 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 
MARRIED 
WIDOWED  MPY’Tifil 
or  DIVORCED  1Vldl  1 -1  ™ 


18  DATE  OF 
DEATH  _ 

ft 


(Year) 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced  _ _ , 

husband  of  Mary  V . Sullivan  xirew-s-- 

(Give  maiden  name  of  wife  in  full) 

(or)  WIFE  of 

(Husband’s  name  in  full) 


F last  saw  h 


HERE  VY  C E R T I F Y i That  I attended  deceased  from 


19  I HERE  yy  C E R T I F 
, to — 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive_ 


~EJ.. 


19. 


19.V.iSr  death  is  said 

1 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


have  occurred  on  the  date(«tated  above,  a t.f.~0.» ^LM . 

Immediate  cause  oi  death 


Years Months Days 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours Minutes 


Usual 
9 Occuoa 


Jtth 


am 


10 

Industry 
or  Business: 

U,  s.  Army 

11 

Social  Security  No. 

— 

12  BIRTHPLACE  (Citv) 

New  York„ 

(State  or  country) 

N.Y . 

13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 

Charles  Tiews 

H 

14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
FATHER  (City) 

New  York 

w 

(State  or  country) 

n.  t; 

« 

< 

15  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 

Anna  Miller 

16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
MOTHER  (City) 

New  York 

(State  or  country) 

N.  Y. 

Due  to- 


Other  conditions- 


(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings: 

Of  operations 


Date  of 


Of  autopsy 

What  test  confirmed  diagnosis?- 


IMPORTART 

Physician 


Underline 
the  cause  to 
which  death 
should  be 
charged  sta- 
tistically. 


I nformant M&  ry  V 

(Address) 


Tantl 


,ation,  if  any 


20  Was  disease  or  injury  in  any  way  related  to  occupation  of  deceased?- 
If  so,  specify- 

(Signed)— -4  — s > M.  D. 

(Address)  

21  Wlnthrop 

Place  of  Burial,  Cremation 
DATE  OF  BURIAL 


Lr*$..  ~...i9  y£r 


was  filed  with  me  BEFORE  the  burial  or  transit  permit  was  issued: 

I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  a^satis^actory  standard  certificate  of  death 


t a .satisfactory  standan 

..QUldUm 

t of  Bi  ----- 

t 


(Signature  of  Agent  of  Board  of  Health  or  other) 

(Lcua^T Qmax^M/ 

(Official  l^signation)  f~j  (Date  of  Issfie  6f  Permit) 


22  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR /..J 

ADDRESS 
Received  and  filed- 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS  OF  THE 
COMMONWEALTH  OF  MASSACHUSETTS 
GOVERNING  THE 

RETURN  OF  CERTIFICATES  OF  DEATH 

A physician  or  registered  hospital  medical  officer  shall  forthwith,  after 
the  death  of  a person  whom  he  has  attended  during  his  last  illness,  at  the 
request  of  an  undertaker  or  other  authorized  person  or  of  any  member  of 
the  family  of  the  deceased,  furnish  for  registration  a standard  certificate 
of  death,  stating  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief  the  name  of  the 
deceased,  his  supposed  age,  the  disease  of  which  he  died,  defined  as  re- 
quired by  section  one,  where  same  was  contracted,  the  duration  of  his  last 
illness,  when  last  seen  alive  by  the  physician  or  officer  and  the  date  of 
his  death  . . . Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  46,  Sec.  9. 

A physician  or  officer  furnishing  a certificate  of  death  as  required  by  the 
preceding  section  or  by  section  forty-five  of  chapter  one  hundred  and  four- 
teen, shall,  if  the  deceased,  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief,  served 
in  the  army,  navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  United  States  in  any  war  in  which 
it  has  been  engaged,  insert  in  the  certificate  a recital  to  that  effect,  speci- 
fying the  war,  and  shall  also  certify  in  such  certificate  both  the  primary 
and  the  secondary  or  immediate  cause  of  death  as  nearly  as  he  can  state 
the  same.  For  neglect  to  comply  with  any  provision  of  this  section,  such 
physician  or  officer  shall  forfeit  ten  dollars.  For  the  purposes  of  this  sec- 
tion and  of  sections  forty-five,  forty-six  and  forty-seven  of  said  chapter 
one  hundred  and  fourteen,  the  word  “war”  shall  include  the  China  relief 
expedition  and  the  Philippine  insurrection,  which  shall,  for  said  purposes, 
be  deemed  to  have  taken  place  between  February  fourteenth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  ninety-eight  and  July  fourth,  nineteen  hundred  and  two,  and 
the  Mexican  border  service  of  nineteen  hundred  and  sixteen  and  nine- 
teen hundred  and  seventeen.  G.  L.  Chap.  46,  Sec.  10. 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  or  otherwise  dispose  of  a human 
body  in  a town,  or  remove  therefrom  a human  body  which  has  not  been 
buried,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from  the  board  of  health,  or  its 
agent  appointed  to  issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  from 
the  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  person  died;  and  no  undertaker  or  other 
person  shall  exhume  a human  body  and  remove  it  from  a town,  from  one 
cemetery  to  another,  or  from  one  grave  or  tomb  other  than  the  receiving 
tomb  to  another  in  the  same  cemetery,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from 
the  board  of  health  or  its  agent  aforesaid  or  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  body  is  buried.  No  such  permit  shall  bh  issued  until  there  shall 
have  been  delivered  to  such  board,  agent  or  clerk,  as  the  case  may  be, 
a satisfactory  written  statement  containing  the  facts  required  by  law  to  be 
returned  and  recorded,  which  shall  be  accompanied,  in  case  of  an  original 
interment,  by  a satisfactory  certificate  of  the  attending  physician,  if  any, 
as  required  by  law,  or  in  lieu  thereof  a certificate  as  hereinafter  provided. 
If  there  is  no  attending  physician,  or  if,  for  sufficient  reasons,  his  certificate 
cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  or  is  insufficient,  a physi- 
cian who  is  a member  of  the  board  of  health,  or  employed  by  it  or  by  the 
selectmen  for  the  purpose,  shall  upon  application  make  the  certificate  re- 
quired of  the  attending  physician.  If  death  is  caused  by  violence,  the  medi- 
cal examiner  shall  make  such  certificate.  If  such  a permit  for  the  removal 
of  a human  body,  not  previously  interred,  from  one  town  to  another  within 
the  commonwealth  cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  the 
certificate  of  death  made  as  above  provided  and  in  the  possession  of  the 
undertaker  desiring  to  make  such  removal  shall  constitute  a permit  for 
such  removal;  provided,  that  such  body  shall  be  returned  to  the  town  from 
which  it  was  removed  within  thirty-six  hours  after  such  removal,  unless 
a permit  in  the  usual  form  for  the  removal  of  such  body  has  been  sooner 
obtained  hereunder.  If  the  death  certificate  contains  a recital,  as  required 


by  section  ten  of  chapter  forty-six,  that  the  deceased  served  in  the  army, 
navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  United  States  in  any  war  in  which  it  has  been 
engaged,  such  recital  shall  appear  upon  the  permit.  The  board  of  health, 
or  its  agent,  upon  receipt  of  such  statement  and  certificate,  shall  forthwith 
countersign  it  and  transmit  it  to  the  clerk  of  the  town  for  registration. 
The  person  to  whom  the  permit  is  so  given  and  the  physician  certifying 
the  cause  of  death  shall  thereafter  furnish  for  registration  any  other  neces- 
sary information  which  can  be  obtained  as  to  the  deceased,  or  as  to  the 
manner  or  cause  of  the  death,  which  the  clerk  or  registrar  may  require. — 
Chap.  114,  Sec.  45,  G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition). 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  a human  body  or  the  ashes 
thereof  which  have  been  brought  into  the  commonwealth  until  he  has  re- 
ceived a permit  so  to  do  from  the  board  of  health  or  its  agent  appointed  to 
issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  body  is  to  be  buried  or  the  funeral  is  to  be  held,  or  from  a person 
appointed  to  have  the  care  of  the  cemetery  or  burial  ground  in  which  the 
interment  is  made.  . . . Chap.  114,  Sec.  46,  G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition). 


Medical  examiners  shall  make  examination  upon  the  view  of  the  dead 
bodies  of  only  such  persons  as  are  supposed  to  have  died  by  violence. 
If  a medical  examiner  has  notice  that  there  is  within  his  county  the  body 
of  such  a person,  he  shall  forthwith  go  to  the  place  where  the  body  lies 
and  take  charge  of  the  same;  . . . — General  Laws,  Chap.  38,  Sec.  6. 

RULES  OF  PRACTICE 

The  fulfillment  of  the  purpose  of  these  laws  calls  for  the  observance  of 
the  following  rules  of  practice: 

(1)  Attending  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those  of 
persons  to  whom  they  have  given  bedside  care  during  a last  illness  from 
disease  unrelated  to  any  form  of  injury. 

(2)  Board  of  Health  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those 
of  persons  who,  though  disabled  by  recognized  disease  unrelated  to  any 
form  of  injury,  have  died  without  recent  medical  attendance  or  whose  phy- 
sician is  absent  from  home  when  the  certificate  of  death  is  needed. 

(3)  Medical  Examiners  will  investigate  and  certify  to  all  deaths  sup- 
posably  due  to  injury.  These  include  not  only  deaths  caused  directly  or 
indirectly  by  traumatism  (including  resulting  septicemia),  and  by  the 
action  of  chemical  (drugs  or  poisons),  thermal,  or  electrical  agents,  and 
deaths  following  abortion,  but  also  deaths  from  disease  resulting  from 
injury  or  infection  related  fo  occupation,  the  sudden  deaths  of  persons  not 
disabled  by  recognized  disease,  and  those  of  persons  found  dead. 


Statement  of  Cause  of  Death. — Cause  of  death  means  the  disease,  or 
complication  which  causes  death,  not  the  mode  of  dying,  e.  g.,  heart  failure, 
asphyxia,  asthenia,  etc.  As  principal  cause  name  the  disease  causing  death. 
As  related  causes,  name  earlier  morbid  conditions,  if  any,  related  to  the 
principal  cause  and  any  important  complication  of  the  principal  cause. 


Statement  of  Occupation. — Precise  statement  of  occupation  is  very  im- 
portant, so  that  the  relative  heaLhfulness  of  various  pursuits  can  he  known. 
Make  some  entry  in  this  section  for  every  person  aged  10  years  or  over. 
If  the  occupation  had  been  given  up  or  changed  on  account  of  the  disease 
causing  death,  report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  illness.  If  the  deceased 
had  retired  from  business,  report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  retirement. 
Children  not  gainfully  employed  may  be  returned  as  at  school  or  at  home. 
For  a woman  whose  only  occupation  was  that  of  home  housework,  write 
housework.  For  a person  engaged  in  domestic  service  for  wages,  how- 
ever, designate  the  occupation  by  the  appropriate  terms,  as  housekeeper — 
private  family,  cook — hotel,  etc.  For  a person  who  had  no  occupation 
whatever  write  none. 


SPACE  FOR  ADDITIONAL  INFORMATION 


•strict*  from  the  laws  on  back  of  certificate. 

If  deceased  was  a U.  S.  War  Veteran,  G.  L.  Chap.  46,  Seotlon  10,  requires  physlolans  to  Insert  a reoltal  to  that  effeot. 


1-301 


3 SEX 

Female 


jE  Suffolk 

ui  (County) 


o 

UJ 

o 

5 

Vfl- 


...WintJaxap 

(City  or  Town) 


tUtir  CHotmttotiforaHIt  of  (iHassarfptsetts 
OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


To  be  tiled  for  burial  permit 
with  Board  of  Health 
or  its  Agent.  A 

Registered  No 


No.  41  S(  | (If  death iocewred  In  a hospital  or  Institution, 


I five  its  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 


2 FULL  NAME j (^Y«§5S>SF« ' IMP OR TAN  1 

1 U.  S.  

^ if  so  i 


(If  deceased  i9  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.) 

(a)  Residence.  No .9 .*?. ...  A SL 

(Usual  place  of  abode) 


. War  Veteran, 
specify  WAR). 


Length  of  stay:  In  nosoltal  or  Institution 

(Itefore  death)  (Specify  whether) 


yeara 


months 


days. 


(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 

In  this  oommunlty.^-^  yrs.  mos.  days. 


personal  and  statistical  particulars 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

White 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 
MARRIED 
WIOOWED 

or  DIVORCED  yj_a0  ^ 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced 


- , JCive. maiden  name  of. wife  in  full) 

(or)  wife  of  . J. ohn...Le wi a . . whi.t.fcai£;e.r 

(Husband's  name  In  full) 

6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive  

y IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 

AGE  7.P....  Years  C. Months  l.loays 

If  less  than  1 day 
Hours Minutes 

9 Oecuoation:  

* 

Industry 

10  or  Business: 


..JU-Howa- 


11  Social  Security  No. 


..UQH6.. 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City)  

(S.sle  or  country)  Ls.nCL 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 


Thomas  Barrow 


14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
FATHER  (City)  . 
(State  or  country) 


England 


15  MAIDEN  NAME 

of  MOTHEREli^abeth  Robineon 


16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 

MOTHER  (City)  

(State  or  country)  England 


17 


informant. T..om...Wiiithr.Qp...Walfar.eBe(aarcti» 

( Address! 


Relation,  it  any 


I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  a satisfactory,  standard  oertlfloata  of  death  was 
fllt^Wth  me  BEFOR^  the  permit  was  Issued: 

(Official  Resignation)^  "III / (Rate  of  Issue  of  permit!  / 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


18  DATE  OF 

death Jan*....21, 194 & 

(Month)  * (Day) 


(Year) 


19  I HEREBY  CERTIFY,  /frhat  I attended  deceased  from 

, »>..//. , 

I last  saw  h..<=...Vr....allve  on 
have  oocurred  on  the  data  sta< 

Immediate  oaus^  of  death 


.y.A.j,  , 19  y.<L. 

...yd:.c. 19  ^(0,  death  is  said  t« 
fated  above,  at — T 


Due  to 


SzajtZk. 


Due  to  . 


Other  conditions.. 


(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations . 


n: Date  of .-... 

Of  autopsy , 

What  lest  oonfirmed  diagnosis?  


Duration 


•liiBLMU  AN  T 


IMPORTANT 

Physician 


Underline 
the  cause  to 
uhieh  death 
should  b e 
charged  sta- 
tistically. 


20  Was  disease  or  injury  in  ojiy  way  related  t^  oooupatlon  of  deoeased 

If  so,  specify .^.U. _ 

< Signed) M.  D. 

(Address) 

21  ....W.iiiii.hr.Qit Winhl&Qp...  

Place  of  Burial,  Cremation  or  Removal.  (City  or  Town) 

DATE  OF  BURIAL J/^n.a....£4>....lS.45..... 


22  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRECTO 


/ 


_ ?L..ZZ. 

ADDRESS  St . • Winnrnr 


Reoeived  and  Hied.. 


IIOIEii 


19.. 


oia.. 


(Registrar) 


JtM 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS  OF  THE 

COMMONWEALTH  OF  MASSACHUSETTS 

GOVERNING  THE 

RETURN  OF  CERTIFICATES  OF  DEATH 

A physloian  or  registered  hospital  medical  offioer  shall  forthwith,  after 
the  dealh  of  a person  whom  he  has  attended  during  his  last  illness,  at  the 
requesl  of  an  undertaker  or  other  authorised  person  or  of  ant  member  of 
the  family  of  the  deceased,  furnish  for  registration  a standard  certificate 
of  deaih,  stating  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief  the  name  of  the 
deceased,  his  supposed  age,  the  disease  of  which  he  died,  defined  a»  re- 
quired by  section  one.  where  same  was  contracted,  the  duration  of  hia  last 
Illness,  when  last  seen  alive  by  the  physician  or  officer  and  the  date  of  his 
death  ...  Gen.  1-aws,  Chap.  4 6,  Sec.  #. 

A physician  or  officer  furnishing  a certificate  of  death  as  required  by  the 
preceding  section  or  by  section  forty-five  of  chapter  one  hundred  and  four- 
teen, shall,  if  the  deceased,  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief,  served 
In  the  army,  navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  I'nited  States  in  any  war  in  which 
it  has  been  engaged,  insert  in  the  certificate  a recital  to  that  effect,  speci- 
fying the  war.  and  shall  also  certify  in  such  certificate  both  the  primary 
and  the  secondary  or  immediate  cause  of  death  as  nearly  as  he  can  state 
the  same.  For  neglect  to  comply  with  any  provision  of  this  section,  such 
physician  or  officer  shall  forfeit  ten  dollars.  For  the  purposes  of  this  sec- 
tion and  of  sections  forty-five,  forty-six  and  forty-seven  of  said  chapter  one 
hundred  and  fourteen,  the  word  “war"  shall  include  the  China  relief  ex- 
pedition and  the  Philippine  insurrection,  which  shall,  for  said  purposes,  be 
deemed  to  have  taken  place  between  February  fourteenth,  eighteen  hundred 
and  ninety- eight  and  July  fourth,  nineteen  hundred  and  two,  and  the  lleii- 
can  border  service  of  nineteen  hundred  and  sixteen  and  nineteen  hundred 
and  seventeen.  G.  L.  Chap.  46,  Sec.  10. 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  or  otherwise  dispose  of  a human 
bodv  in  a town,  or  remove  therefrom  a human  body  which  has  not  been 
buried,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from  the  board  of  health,  or  its 
agent  appointed  to  issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  from 
the  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  |>erson  died;  and  no  undertaker  or  other 
person  shall  exhume  a human  body  and  remove  it  from  a town,  from  one 
cemetery  to  another,  or  from  one  grave  or  tomb  other  than  the  receiving 
tomb  to  another  in  the  same  cemetery,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from 
the  board  of  health  or  its  agent  aforesaid  or  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  body  is  buried.  No  such  permit  shall  be  issued  until  there  shall 
have  been  delivered  to  aucb  board,  agent  or  clerk,  as  the  case  may  be, 
a satisfactory  written  statement  containing  the  facts  required  by  law  to  be 
returned  and  recorded,  which  shall  be  accompanied,  in  case  of  an  original 
interment,  by  a satisfactory  certificate  of  the  attending  physician,  if  any, 
as  required  by  law.  oi  in  lieu  thereof  a certificate  as  hereinafter  provided. 
If  there  is  no  attending  physician,  or  if,  for  sufficient  reasons,  his  certificate 
cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  or  is  insufficient,  a physi- 
cian who  is  a member  of  the  board  of  health,  or  employed  by  it  or  by  the 
selectmen  for  the  purpose,  shall  upon  application  make  the  certificate  re- 
quired of  Ihe  attending  physician.  If  death  is  esused  by  violence,  the  medi- 
cal examiner  shall  make  such  certificate.  If  such  a permit  for  the  removal 
oi  a human  body,  not  previously  interred,  from  one  town  to  another  within 
the  commonwealth  cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  the 
certificate  of  death  made  as  above  provided  and  in  the  possession  of  the 
undertaker  desiring  to  make  such  removal  shall  constitute  a permit  for 
such  removal;  provided,  that  such  body  shall  be  returned  to  the  town  from 
which  it  was  removed  within  thirty-six  hours  after  such  removal,  unless 
a permit  in  the  usual  form  for  the  removal  of  such  body  has  been  sooner 
obtained  hereunder.  If  the  death  certificate  contains  a recital,  as  required 


SPACE  FOR  ADDITIONAL  INFORMATION 


by  section  ten  of  chapter  forty-six,  that  the  deceased  served  in  the  army, 
navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  I'nited  States  in  any  war  In  which  It  has  been 
engaged,  such  recital  shall  appear  upon  the  permit.  The  board  of  health, 
or  its  agent,  upon  receipt  of  such  statement  and  certificate,  shall  forthwith 
countersign  it  and  transmil  it  to  the  clerk  of  the  town  for  registration. 
The  person  to  whom  the  permit  is  so  given  and  the  physician  certifying 
the  cause  of  deaih  shall  thereafter  furnish  for  registration  any  other  neces- 
sary information  which  can  be  obtained  as  to  the  deceased,  or  as  to  the 
manner  or  cause  of  the  death,  which  the  clerk  or  registrar  may  require. — 
Chap.  114.  Sec.  4&,  G.  L„  (Tercentenary  edition). 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  a human  body  or  the  ashes 
thereof  which  have  been  brought  into  the  commonwealth  until  he  has  re- 
ceiled  a permit  so  to  do  from  the  hoard  of  health  or  its  agent  ap|>ointed  to 
issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  hoard,  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  body  is  to  be  buried  or  the  funeral  is  to  be  held,  or  from  a person 
appointed  to  have  the  care  of  the  cemetery  or  burial  ground  in  which  tha 
interment  is  made.  ...  Chap.  114.  Sec.  46.  C.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition). 


Medical  examiners  shsll  make  examination  upon  the  view  of  the  dead 
bodies  of  only  such  persons  as  are  supposed  to  have  died  by  violence. 
If  a medical  examiner  has  notice  that  there  is  within  bis  county  the  body 
of  such  a person,  he  shall  forthwith  go  to  the  place  where  the  body  Ilea 
and  take  charge  of  the  same;... — General  Laws,  Chap.  38,  See.  6. 

RULES  OF  PRACTICE 

The  fulfillment  of  the  purpose  of  these  laws  calls  for  the  observance  of 
the  following  rules  of  practice: 

(1)  Attending  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  at  those  of 
persons  to  whom  they  have  given  bedside  care  during  a last  illness  from 
disease  unrelated  to  any  form  of  injury. 

(2)  Board  of  Health  physiolani  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those 
of  persons  who,  though  disabled  by  recognized  disease  unrelated  to  any 
form  of  injury,  have  died  without  recent  medical  attendance  or  whose  physi- 
cian is  absent  from  home  when  the  certificate  of  deaih  is  needed. 

(8)  Medloal  Examiners  will  investigate  and  certify  to  all  deaths  sup- 
poaably  due  to  Injury.  These  include  not  only  deaths  caused  directly  ot  in- 
directly by  traumatism  (Including  resulting  septicemia),  and  by  the  action 
of  chemical  (drugs  or  poisons),  thermal,  or  electrical  agents,  and  deaths 
following  abortion,  but  also  deaths  from  dlseast  resulting  from  injury  or 
infeotion  related  to  oooupation,  the  sudden  deaths  of  persona  not  disabled 
by  reoognized  disease,  and  those  of  persons  found  dead. 


Statement  of  Causa  of  Death. — Cause  of  death  meana  the  disease,  or 
complication  which  causes  death,  not  the  mode  of  dying,  e.  g.,  heart  failure, 
asphyxia,  asthenia,  etc.  As  principal  cauae  name  the  disease  causing  death. 
As  related  causes,  name  earlier  morbid  conditions,  if  any,  related  to  the 
principal  cauae  and  any  important  complication  of  the  principal  cauae. 


Statement  of  Oooupation. — Precise  statement  of  occupation  la  very  im- 
portant, so  that  the  relative  healthfulness  of  various  pursuits  can  be  known. 
Make  some  entry  in  this  section  for  every  person  aged  10  years  or  over. 
If  the  occupation  had  been  given  up  or  changed  on  account  of  the  discaee 
causing  death,  report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  illness.  If  the  deceased 
had  retired  from  business,  report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  retiremenL 
Children  not  gainfully  employed  may  be  returned  aa  at  school  or  at  home. 
For  a woman  whose  only  occupation  was  that  of  home  housework,  writ* 
housework.  For  a person  engaged  in  domestic  service  for  wages,  however, 
designate  the  occupation  by  tj)e  appropriate  terms,  aa  houaekeeper — private 
family,  cook — hotel,  etc.  For  a person  who  had  no  occupation  whatever 
write  none. 


of  the  citj  or  town  in  which  the  deceased  resided.  (See  Chap.  40,  Sec.  12,  Q.  L.) 


R-302 


1 ^ssex 

2 (County) 

a 

Danvers 


tHIje  (Sotttmcmfnraltlj  of  JWassactfusdts 

OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

COPY  OF 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


Danvers 

(City  or  town  making  return) 

15 


i 


Registered  No. 


O 

§ iSa^vere*  otate  Hospital  Qf  \ (If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 

_i  No ~ St.  < gjve  j£g  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 

“■  bdith  Habethge 


;(lf  u.  s. 

War  V 


2 FULL  NAME •(  War  Veteran, 

(If  deceased  is  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.)  . 1 speoify  WAR)  

228  Bowdoin  Wmthiop 

(a)  Resldenoe.  No SL  

(Usual  place  of  abode)  (If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 

Length  of  atay:  In  hospital  or  Institution yean  months  6 days. 

(Before  death)  (Specify  whether) 


In  this  oommunlty 


yrs. 


days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 

female 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

white 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 

MARRIED 


WIDOWED 

or  divorced  niarr  led 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced 
HUSBAND  of 


t } WIFp  nfl  .Chai<li^Siai<lfc,tW5®freif^“  MUdolph  4J  m Ee...allve  on tJ„an...™.22.^  19...45  death  Is  said  to 

(Husband’s  name  in  fuil ) 110.be' t TTge  ' have  occurred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at.tLe.A.Sc.™?. m.  Duration 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive  Q .4 years 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  faot  here. 


8 


79 


AGE :...*?.Years Months.. 


.Days 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours Minutes 


Usual  i • n 

9 Occupation:  .JlQ..US.e.Y\l.l.X.S.. 


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


11  Sooial 


Security  No. -_.Jl.Qi}.®. 


i'es'tbri" 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City)  

(State  or  country) 

bibridge  i.  Gilman 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 


14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
FATHER  (City)  . 
(State  or  country) 

cannot  be 

learned 

15  MAIDEN  NAME^nnj_e  M. White 
OF  MOTHER 

16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
MOTHER  (City) 
(State  or  country) 

Cannot  be 

learned 

i-i-ir  _ , Relation,  if  any 

Informant Li»b.»l>-.d..llil.l.i.D.S ( ) 

( ArMrese) 

copy  y J 


A TRUE 
ATTEST 


city  or  town  where  death  occurred) 

DATE  FILED  19 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


18  DATE  OF 
DEATH  


Jan.  22,  1945 

(Month)  (Day) 


(Year) 


19  I HEREBY  CERTIFY,  That  I attended  deoeased  from 

Jan.. X6-.  19-45..,  to....J‘.a&x 22 19....45 


Immediate  cause  of  death 

Cardiorenal  disease 


2 mor 


Due  to. 


Due  to. 


Other  conditions 

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations. 


Date  of 

clinical 


Duration 

ths 


Physician 


Of  autopsy .... 

What  test  oonfirmed  diagnosis? 

20  Was  disease  or  injury  in  any  way  related  to  occupation  of  deceased? 
If  so,  speoify 


Underline 
the  cause  to 
which  death 
should  b e 
charged  sta- 
tistically. 


(Signed) £.0^^  M."  D. 

(Address)  D,8li DataL^..2.Q./.,49& 


21  PLACE  OF  BURIAL, 

N OR  RE 

luemeierys  / /(V/ijyor  10 

DATE  OF  BURIAL  X/,2.4/,4.5 19 


rLMbt  Ur  DUnlML,  • x.  1-  _ _ _ _ • . . i 

CREMATION  OR  REMOVMl  ln.LilT.Q.p Jlimt Jir.O.P 

(Cemetery)  _ / _ /(City  or  Town) 

9 

j.  Reynolds 


noward 


22  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR  

address .(•In.tJir.o.p 


Reoeived  and  filed 19 

(Registrar  of  City  or  Town  where  deceased  resided) 


A 


If  deceased  was  a U.  S.  War  Veteran,  G.  L„  Chap.  46,  Sec.  10,  requires  physicians  to  insert  a recital  to  that  effect. 


i A 


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1 < 


Suffolk 


(County) 

Wi  nth  rap, 

(City  or  Town) 


©Ije  (EammottfrieaUfy  of  (JWassarfyusette 

OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


To  he  filed  lor  barlal  permit 

with  Board  of  Health 
or  Its  Agent. 

Registrar’s  No. ..L 


No. 


22 


„ ( (If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 

bt-  1 giv  ’ ■'  ‘ ' ’ ’ - 


FULL  NAME 

(a) 


Pleasant  Pk.  Rd.  „ , . „.  . ..  , 

ol-  1 give  its  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 

PHYSICIAN— IMPORTANT 

deceased  a 
War  Veteran, 

(If  deceased  is  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.)  V.  if  so  specify  WAR) 


William  H.  Westlake 


{PHY! 

(Was 
U.  S. 
if  so  s 


Residence.  *22--  _ 

(Usual  place  of  abode) 


Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  Institution 


(Before  death) 


(Specify  whether) 


years 


months 


St. 


days. 


(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 

In  this  communitJO  yrs.  mos.  days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 

Male 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

White  life. 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 
MARRIED 
WIDOWED 

,rqr$3@RCEP 


husband6  d ’{ w ldo  "Tfei  &nrc?$cCart  hy 


HUSBAND  of 
(or)  WIFE  of 


(Give  maiden  name  of  wife  in  full) 


(Husband’s  name  in  full) 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive 


isb|p 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


AG 


Z4 


Years_ Months Days 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours Minutes 


Usual 


Boilermaker 


10 

Industry 
or  Business:  _ 

Boiled 

11 

Social  Security  No.  

03I-o5— 5296 ...  

12  BIRTHPLACE  (Citv) 

(State  or  country) 

“England: 

13  NAME  OF 

FATHER 

William  H.  Westlake 

14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
FATHER  fCitv) 

(State  or  country) 

England 

< 

IS  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 

Isabell  Kelly 

16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
MOTHER  (City)  . .. 

(State  or  country) 

Englana 

17 


InformanHSlej 
(Address) 


“Pk, 


was  filed  with  me  BEFORE  the 
I HEREBY  CERTIEY  that 

ligature  o 


r transit  permit  was  issued: 
'orj^standard  certificate  of  death 


Board  oi  Iforljth^r  ^hcr)  , 



ate  of  Issuc/of  Peraj<)  ‘ 


18  DATE  OF 
DEATH  . 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 

"L-K 


inn 

(Year) 


19  L HEREBY  CERTIFY 


have  occurred  on  the  date 
Immediate,  cause  of  death. 


ated (above,  at. 


-:'^A 


.iv_tiicvLo,  taube  oi  ueaiu — ^ 


Due  to.. 


Due  to- 


other conditions  . 


(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations. 


.Date  of. 


Of  autopsy 

What  test  confirmed  diagnosis?. 


Duration 

IMPORTANT 


IMPORTANT 

Physician 


Underline 
the  cause  to 
which  death 
should  be 
charged  sta- 
tistically. 


20  Was  disease  or  injury  in  any  way  related  to  occupation  of  deceased ?_ 

If  so,  specify. 

(Signed)//^  i > M.  D. 


q^atew(-.^-itU..~.19..f^.J" 


Place  of  Burial,  Cremation 
DATE  OF  BURIAL 


22  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR 


(Registrar) 


..  . ........  .......  . ,.  That  I attended  deceased  from 

, 19 , 19— 

I last  saw  h ^^•-alive  oii  -^l — , 19±£>  death  is  said  to 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS  OF  THE 

COMMONWEALTH  OF  MASSACHUSETTS 

GOVERNING  THE 

RETURN  OF  CERTIFICATES  OF  DEATH 

A physician  or  registered  hospital  medical  officer  shall  forthwith,  after 
the  death  of  a person  whom  he  has  attended  during  his  last  illness,  at  the 
request  of  an  undertaker  or  other  authorized  person  or  of  any  member  of 
the  family  of  the  deceased,  furnish  for  registration  a standard  certificate 
of  death,  stating  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief  the  name  of  the 
deceased,  his  supposed  age,  the  disease  of  which  he  died,  defined  as  re- 
quired by  section  one,  where  same  was  contracted,  the  duration  of  his  last 
illness,  when  last  seen  alive  by  the  physician  or  officer  and  the  date  of 
his  death  . . . Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  46,  Sec.  9. 

A physician  or  officer  furnishing  a certificate  of  death  as  required  by  the 
preceding  section  or  by  section  forty-five  of  chapter  one  hundred  and  four- 
teen, shall,  if  the  deceased,  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief,  served 
in  the  army,  navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  United  States  in  any  war  in  which 
it  has  been  engaged,  insert  in  the  certificate  a recital  to  that  effect,  speci- 
fying the  war,  and  shall  also  certify  in  such  certificate  both  the  primary 
and  the  secondary  or  immediate  cause  of  death  as  nearly  as  he  can  state 
the  same.  For  neglect  to  comply  with  any  provision  of  this  section,  such 
physician  or  officer  shall  forfeit  ten  dollars.  For  the  purposes  of  this  sec- 
tion and  of  sections  forty-five,  forty-six  and  forty-seven  of  said  chapter 
one  hundred  and  fourteen,  the  word  “war”  shall  include  the  China  relief 
expedition  and  the  Philippine  insurrection,  which  shall,  for  said  purposes, 
be  deemed  to  have  taken  place  between  February  fourteenth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  ninety-eight  and  July  fourth,  nineteen  hundred  and  two,  and 
the  Mexican  border  service  of  nineteen  hundred  and  sixteen  and  nine- 
teen hundred  and  seventeen.  G.  L.  Chap.  46,  Sec.  10. 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  or  otherwise  dispose  of  a human 
body  in  a town,  or  remove  therefrom  a human  body  which  has  not  been 
buried,  until  be  has  received  a permit  from  the  board  of  health,  or  its 
agent  appointed  to  issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  from 
the  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  person  died;  and  no  undertaker  or  other 
person  shall  exhume  a human  body  and  remove  it  from  a town,  from  one 
cemetery  to  another,  or  from  one  grave  or  tomb  other  than  the  receiving 
tomb  to  another  in  the  same  cemetery,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from 
the  board  of  health  or  its  agent  aforesaid  or  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  body  is  buried.  No  such  permit  shall  be  issued  until  there  shall 
have  been  delivered  to  such  board,  agent  or  clerk,  as  the  case  may  be, 
a satisfactory  written  statement  containing  the  facts  required  by  law  to  be 
returned  and  recorded,  which  shall  be  accompanied,  in  case  of  unoriginal 
interment,  by  a satisfactory  certificate  of  the  attending  physician,  if  any, 
as  required  by  law,  or  in  lieu  thereof  a certificate  as  hereinafter  provided. 
If  there  is  no  attending  physician,  or  if,  for  sufficient  reasons,  his  certificate 
cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  or  is  insufficient,  a physi- 
cian who  is  a member  of  the  board  of  health,  or  employed  by  it  or  by  the 
selectmen  for  the  purpose,  shall  upon  application  make  the  certificate  re- 
quired of  the  attending  physician.  Tf  death  is  caused  by  violence,  the  medi- 
cal examiner  shall  make  such  certificate.  If  such  a permit  for  the  removal 
of  a human  body,  not  previously  interred,  from  one  town  to  another  within 
the  commonwealth  cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  the 
certificate  of  death  made  as  above  provided  and  in  the  possession  of  the 
undertaker  desiring  to  make  such  removal  shall  constitute  a permit  for 
such  removal;  provided,  that  such  body  shall  be  returned  to  the  town  from 
which  it  was  removed  within  thirty-six  hours  after  such  removal,  unless 
a permit  in  the  usual  form  for  the  removal  of  such  body  has  been  sooner 
obtained  hereunder.  If  the  death  certificate  contains  a recital,  as  required 


by  section  ten  of  chapter  lorty-six,  that  the  deceased  serveu  in  the  army, 
navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  United  States  in  any  war  in  which  it  has  been 
engaged,  such  recital  shall  appear  upon  the  permit.  The  board  of  health, 
or  its  agent,  upon  receipt  of  such  statement  and  certificate,  shall  forthwith 
countersign  it  and  transmit  it  to  the  clerk  of  the  town  for  registration. 
The  person  to  whom  the  permit  is  so  given  and  the  physician  certifying 
the  cause  of  death  shall  thereafter  furnish  for  registration  any  other  neces- 
sary information  which  can  be  obtained  as  to  the  deceased,  or  as  to  the 
manner  or  cause  of  the  death,  which  the  clerk  or  registrar  may  require. — 
Chap.  114,  Sec.  45,  G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition). 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  a human  body  or  the  ashes 
thereof  which  have  been  brought  into  the  commonwealth  until  he  has  re- 
ceived a permit  so  to  do  from  the  board  of  health,  or  its  agent  appointed  to 
issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  i$  no  such  board,  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  body  is  to  be  buried  or  the  funeral  is  to  he  held,  or  from  a person 
appointed  to  have  the  care  of  the  cemetery  or  burial  ground  in  which  the 
interment  is  made.  . . . Chap.  114,  Sec.  46,  G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition). 


Medical  examiners  shall  make  examination  upon  the  view  of  the  dead 
bodies  of  only  such  persons  as  are  supposed  to  have  died  by  violence. 
If  a medical  examiner  has  notice  that  there  is  within  his  county  the  body 
of  such  a person,  he  shall  forthwith  go  to  the  place  where  the  body  lies 
and  take  charge  of  the  same;  . . . — General  Laws,  Chap.  38,  Sec.  6. 

RULES  OF  PRACTICE 

The  fulfillment  of  the  purpose  of  these  laws  calls  for  the  observance  of 
the  following  rules  of  practice: 

(1)  Attending  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those  of 
persons  to  whom  they  have  given  bedside  care  during  a last  illness  from 
disease  unrelated  to  any  form  of  injury. 

(2)  Board  of  Health  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those 
of  persons  who,  though  disabled  by  recognized  disease  unrelated  to  any 
form  of  injury,  have  died  without  recent  medical  attendance  or  whose  phy- 
sician is  absent  from  home  when  the  certificate  of  death  is  needed. 

(3)  Medical  Examiners  will  investigate  and  certify  to  all  deaths  sup- 
posably  due  to  injury.  These  include  not  only  deaths  caused  directly  or 
indirectly  by  traumatism  (including  resulting  septicemia),  and  by  the 
action  of  chemical  (drugs  or  poisons),  thermt^l,  or  electrical  agents,  and 
deaths  following  abortion,  but  also  yearns  iroih  disease  resulting  from 
injury  or  infection  related  to  occupation,  the  sudden  deaths  of  persons  not 
disabled  by  recognized  disease,  and  those  of  persons  found  dead. 


Statement  of  Cause  of  Death. — Cause  of  death  means  the  disease,  or 
complication  which  causes  death,  not  the  mode  of  dying,  e.  g.,  heart  failure, 
asphyxia,  asthenia,  etc.  As  principal  cause  name  the  disease  causing  death. 
As  related  causes,  name  earlier  morbid  conditions,  if  any,  related  to  the 
principal  cause  and  any  important  complication  of  the  principal  cause. 


Statement  of  Occupation. — Precise  statement  of  occupation  is  very  im- 
portant, so  that  the  relative  heallhfulness  of  various  pursuits  can  be  known. 
Make  some  entry  in  this  section  for  every  person  aged  10  years  or  over. 
If  the  occupation  had  been  given  up  or  changed  on  account  of  the  disease 
causing  death,  report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  illness.  If  the  deceased 
had  retired  from  business,  report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  retirement. 
Children  not  gainfully  employed  may  be  returned  as  at  school  or  at  home. 
For  a woman  whose  only  occupation  was  that  of  home  housework,  write 
housework.  For  a person  engaged  in  domestic  service  for  wages,  how- 
ever, designate  the  occupation  by  the  appropriate  terms,  as  housekeeper — 
private  family,  cook — hotel,  etc.  For  a person  who  had  no  occupation 
whatever  write  none. 


SPACE  FOR  ADDITIONAL  INFORMATION 


sagfo^k 


(City 


;£/h  (jLI:  -H  L0H 

ity  or  Town) 


®lje  (Eammonfoealtlj  of  <ililas*acIjusettB 
OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
COPY  OF 

MEDICAL  EXAMINER’S 
CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


(Citi'  or  Iowa  making  return) 

Chelsea 


E 

£ 

a 

k. 

o 

O ' ' f ( If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 

3 No «npaatc...to.-C.h©X«-ea- *ive  it3  NAME  instead  of  stre*t  snd  Dumbsr) 


Registered  No.  51 


17 




2 FULL 


NAME  < Wa^  Veteran,  V *) 

(If  deceased  is  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.)  j ap0cify  WAR).........! 


356  Winthrop 

(a)  Residence.  No 

(Usual  place  of  abode) 

Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  institution ............ 

6 (Specify  whether) 


years 


months 


St. 

days. 


V;  In  thr  op , Ma  as* 


(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and«tate) 

In  this  community  yrs.  mos.  ^ days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 


M 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE  5 SINGLE 


MARRIED 
WIDOWED 

__  i or  DIVORCED 

5a  If  married,  widowed,  of  divorced 
HUSBAND  of 

(or)  WIFE  of 


(Give  maiden  name  of  wife  in  full) 


( Husband’s  naitSjTn  full) 


6 Ago  of  husband  or  wife  ii  alive yeaTB 

7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


8 

AGE 


-54- 


Usual 

9 Occupation: 


Years  ...  Months Days 

— Brio  o '"usifror 


If  le3s  than  1 day 

Hours  Minutes 


Industry 
10  or  Business: 


C ity of  Bo  a t o rt 

029^9-3070 - 


11  Social  Security  No. 

12  BIRTHPLACE  (City) 
(State  or  country) 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 


Janes  R. 


M 14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
£ FATHER  (City) 

* ! (State  or  country) 


Yr.rmora  th,TJ  .3", 


H 

« 15  MAIDEN  NAME 

< OF  MOTHER 


f-cthlldo  fnl-rre 


16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
MOTHER  (City)  . 

(State  or  country) 


Yarmouth,!^  *S, 


17 


Informant 

(Address) 


Ma>j  hite  , R«ta|HLf*y 

60G  Qe©an  AverRetrere ) 


A TRUE  COPY. 
ATTEST: 

DATE  FILED 


a 

(Registrar  of  city  or  town  w)t/re  death  occurred) 
i / z'.  ra  / **  n 

19 


1/25/45 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


18  DATE  OF 
DLAl'H 


Jan. 23 f 19 4 5 

(Month)  (Day) 


(Year) 


19  I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  1 have  investigated  the  death 
of  the  person  above-named  and  that  the  CAUSE  AND  MANNER  thereof 
are  as  follows:  (If  an  injury  was  involved,  state  fully.) 


Acute  c ardicc  dilatation 

Right  QQrouary  sclorpsla 

Old  cardiac  infarct 


20  Accident,  suicide,  or  homicide  (specify). 

Date  of  occurrence 

Where  did 

Injury  occur? 


.19.. 


(City  or  town  and  State) 

Did  injury  occur  in  or  about  the  home,  on  farm,  in  industrial  place,  or  in 

public  place?  

Manner  of  C ©1  lEpS  ©<Mfy  ^ieOP'^Uloklj 

Injury  

Nature  of 

Injury  


yes 


While  at  work? Was  there  an  autopsy?., 


2 1 Was  disease  or  Injury  la  any  way  related  to  occupation  ol  deceased  ? 
If  so,  specify W® 

Boston 


1/23  4#  D 

~ ‘ 19 


22 


specify 
(Signed) 

(Address) Date 

— Holy  dr  os  r,  ,Mg-ld  en , Ma  r,  a # 

Place  of  Burial,  Cremation  or 6 "*'own^ 

DATE  OF  BURIAL V.  " * * 19  . 


23  NAME  OF  F.  CGlinChOY 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR  . 

583  Broadv/ay#CliQlsea 


ADDRESS 


V •u;... 


■iiTTlt- 


Received  and  filed 

(Registrar  of  City  or  Town  where  deceased  resided) 


19 


iry  important.  Seo  instructions  and  extracts  from  the  laws  on  back  of  certifacati 


301  A 


) • 

c > 

3.2 


/ /j  J / ^ 

/S-! , <<Y  A A,  ®be  (Eammottfuealth  of  i^tnssnclrasetts 

•»,  OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETAJRY 


DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 
CERTIFICATE  OF 


To  bo  filed  for  burial  permit 
with  Board  of  Health 
or  its  Agent. 

4 Q 

Registered  No rttbr.Vut... 


T.  j ( (If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 

..  ft. ....... y. si#.  ( give  its  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 


\ (If  U.  S. 

War  Veteran, 
specify  WAR). 


(a)  Residence.  No.  /£L 

(Usual  place  of  abode) 


Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  institution. 


(Specify  whether) 




(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  state) 

In  this  community  yrs. 


mos.  days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATfSTICAL  PARTICULARS 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


OR  OR  RACE  I 5 SINGLE 
MARRIE 
WIDOWE' 

1 or  DIVOR' 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced  — 

HUSBAND  of  .rT v v 

(Give  maiden  najne  of  wife  in  full) 

(or)  WIFE  of  

(Husband's  name  in  full) 


18  DATE  OF 
DEATH 




(Day)  (Year) 


19  1 HEREBY  CERTIFY.  That  1 attended  deceased  from 

, 19 to 19 

, I last  saw  li clive  on 19 , death  is  said 

to  have  occurred  on  the  date  stated  above,  a\..7:.f..X.Ak....m.  r),irnt;nn'\ 


8 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alire._L...y<v 

7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  hcr^ 

8 

AGE  . . 


jlf  less  than  1 day 

Years  Months Days  I Hours Minutes 


Immediate  cause  of  death.. 


Due  to 


Usual 

3 Occupation 


Industry 
10  or  Business 


11  Social  Security  No 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City)  

(State  or  country) j 


Due  to  ..y 

y,/.. /. 

Other  conditions  

(Include  pregnancy  within  .?  menths  of  death) 


PHYSICIAN 

Underline 


Major  findings  : 

Of  operations  | the  cause  to 

Date  of !wh!ch  death 

ishould  be 

Of  autopsy  charged  «ta- 

What  test  confirmed  diagnosis? tistically. 


23  Yias  disease  cr  Injury  In  any  way  related  to  occupation  ot  deceased? . 

If  30,  specify 

(Signed) *1  M.  D 

(Address)  ^^^.Date,. 


I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  a satisfactory  standard  certificate  of  de 
Clod  v/ith  mo  BEFOBE  tho  hurihl  oy^ra^tiit  portnif  was  issued: 

r.  ' ‘ r 

v (Signature  o of~t!oard  of  HedU'nYCr  ^th^r) 


death  was 


22  NAME  OF 
FUNERAL 


ADDRESS 


Place  of  Burial,  Cremation  jfcr  Removal,  si  *~~(City  or  Town)  / / /*r' 

13/D 


DATE  OF  BURIAL 


19 


(Registrar) 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS  OF  THE 
COMMONWEALTH  OF  MASSACHUSETT 
governing  the 

return  of  certificates  of  death 

A physician  °r  registered  hu?P1“,(1"'e^fl3°attSdad8durinK  his 
after  the  death  of  a peIs°”  Undertaker  or  other  authorized  person 
illness,  at  the  requestof  « d°ceased.  furnish  for  regis- 

or  of  any  member  of  -**™11*.' death  stating  to  the  best  of  his 
tration  a standard  °fQf  thg  deceased,  his  supposed  age. 

knowledge  and  belief  the  aame  ot  tn  required  by  section  one 
the  disease  of  which  hedied  dchnea^  ^ ^ last  illness.  when  last 
officer  and  the  date  of  h.s  death  . . . 

%n; 

human  body  in  a town,  o received  a permit  from  the  board 

has  not  been  buried, JJ  ^onolnted  to  issue  such  permits,  or  if  there 
of  health,  or  its  agent  P' P ibe  town  where  the  person  died  . 

is  no  such  board,  from  .he i cleric  of  Lhe  \°”  hume  a human  body  and 
and  no  undertaker  or  othei  ' cemetery  to  another,  or  from  one 

remove  it  from  a town,  from  one  cemece  j another  in  the  same 
grave  or  tomb  other  than  the  Ieae™n?it  fro m the  board  of  health  or 
cemetery,  until  he  lias  rec^vedaperm.t  romt^  whe  th  e body is 
its  agent  aforesaid  F““d  t51  there  shall  have  been  de- 

buried.  No  such  permit  shall  be  issuea  u may  he,  a satisfac- 

livered  to  such  board,  agent  <mc  ^ facts  required  by  law  to  be 
tory  written  statement  co  i 11  he  accompanied,  in  case  of  an 

returned  and  recorded  "h^isfaf0*e  ^Tificate  of  the  attending 
original  interment,  by  a r in  i;eu  thereof  a certificate 

physician,  if  any.  i-ni  attending  physician,  or  if  for 

as  hereinafter  ^ r 0 ‘ r t i ft catif  ca n not  be  obtained  early  enough  for 
sufficient  reasons,  his  c%t'.“qate..  ,,hvsician  who  is  a member  of  the 
the  purpose,  or  is  insufficient,  P the  selectmen  for  the  pur- 

board  of  health,  or  employ  F , certificate  required  of  the  at- 
pose,  shall  upon  thi  medical  exam- 

tending  pnysician.  If  death  is  cau  xaoy  ^ permit  for  the  removal _ of 
iner  shall  make  such v ‘ interred,  from  one  town  to  another 
a human  body,  not  previo  . bg  obtained  early  enough  for  the 
within  the  commonwea  L death  made  as  above  provided  and  in  the 
purpose,  the  certificate  of  deatn  maae  make  such  renloval  sha 
possession  of  the  undertaker  des  ^ g “v^ed_  that  such  body  shall 
constitute  a permit  for  which'  it  was  removed  within  thirty- 

be  returned  to  the  town  from  nprmit  in  the  usual  form  for 

six  hours  after  bTen*  oon^/Xained  hereunder  If  the 

the  removal  of  such  body  has  been  r6quired  by  section  ten  of 

death  certificate  containsa  deceas'd  served  in  the  army,  navy  or 
chapter  forty-six,  that  the  deceas  ^ ^ wal.  in  which  it  has  been 
marine  corps  of  the  Uni  ‘ upon  the  permit.  The  board  of 

engaged,  such  recital  shal  « ...l  statement  and  certificate, 

health,  or  its  agent,  the  clerk  of. the 

shall  forthwith  countersign  it  and  t the  permit  is  so  given 

town  for  registration.  The  person  to  shaU  therea{ter  fur- 

and  the  physician  cel  Anther  necessary  information  which  can  be 

nish  for  registration  any  other  jieMssaiY  rnannfir  or  oi  the 

3S'4h“h  »*•  s“-  «• 

G.  L.t  ( Tercentenary  Edition.) 


SPACE  FOR  ADDITIONAL  INFORMATION 


No  undertaker  or  other  person  ^o^on^lTth  until 

ashes  thereof  which  have  ^rto  do  from  the  board  of  health  or  it. 
he  has  received  a permit  so  i , -t  or  ;f  there  is  no  such  board, 
agent  appointed  to  issue  such  pmm  t . t0  be  buried  or  the 

from  the  clerk  of  eXm  a ^appointed  to  have  the  care 
funeral  is  to  be  held,  or  “om  P ° h interment  is  made 

as  stk  *wms»ss «*»> 


rules  of  practice 

The  fulfillment  of  the  purpose  of  these  laws  calls  for  the  observ- 
ance  of  the  following  rules  of  practM* • deaths  only  as  those 

(1)  A«.~diXPmytheynhave  g£en  bedside  care  during  a last  Ul- 

SLS ' ^ed  - any  deaths  only 

attendance &or  whTse°physician  is  absent  from  home  when  the 
certificate  of  death  is  neede  . , certify  to  all  deaths 

(3)  Medical  E™'rn'r"  WThe"V  indude  not  only  deaths  caused 
suppo.ably  due  to , , "JKvy  traumatism  (including  resulting  septice- 
dlrectly  or  indirectly  by  _vemjcal  (drugs  or  poisons),  thermal, 
mia),  and  by  the  actio  h following  abortion,  but  also  deaths 

or  electrical  agents,  and  deaths  louow  related  to  oeeupa- 

UoT  thra»dd“n  dMths  “f  persons  not  di.abled  by  rceooni.ee, 

disease,  and  those  of  persons  found  dead. 


„ _ , n .. Cause  of  death  means  the  disease, 

Statement  of  Cause  “f,,®*  death  *not  the  mode  of  dying,  e.  9-. 
or  complication  which  cause  th  pr;ncipal  cause  name  the 

heart  failure,  asphyxia,  asthenia,  etc n as  eaJ.Uer  m?rbld  con- 

ditions Tany,  related^  ^ principal  cause  and  any  important 
complication  of  the  principal  cause. 


Statement  of  Occupation.— ^h^nMS  ^'various  pursuits 
important,  so  ^at  the  relative  h^altM^ne^  ^ person 

can  be  known.  Make  some  ent  y had  been  given  up  or 

aged  10  years  or  over.  If  the ' °“cupau  report rthe  usual 

changed  on  account  of  the  disease  caus^g  had  retired  from  busi- 
occupation  prior  to  illness.  ■ _ to  retirement.  Children  not 

ness^  report  the  ^l  occupatmn  prior  to  retire^  ^ 
gainfully  employed  may  he  returnea  as  home  housework,  write 

woman  whose  only  occupation  was  «adomestic  service  for  wages. 
housework.  For  a p*rs0"  paflpn  by  the  appropriate  termA.  as 
I'ZTeJ Z^^a^eoo^-hot*.  etc.  For  a person  who  had 
no^ccup  at  ion  whatever  write  none. 


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OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

COPY  OF 

MEDICAL  EXAMINER’S 
CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


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(City  or  town  making  return)'' 

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Registered  No. 


770 


No. 


Boston  City  Hospital  st.  { ((-f  death_°scurred  in  ? or  institution. 


give  its  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 


2 FULL  NAME 


Jos«Ph....Mciiityre f 

(If  deceased  is  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.)  specify  WAR) 

(a)  Residence.  No l?5  CirCUit  Rd# St 


no 


(Usual  place  of  abode) 


Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  Institution 

(Before  death)  (Specify  whether) 


years 


months 


days. 


(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 

mos.  days. 


40 

In  this  community  yrs. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 

M 


4 COLOR  OR  RACEI 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 

MARRIED 

WIDOWED  . 

or  DivoRCEDMarriea 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced  — . , • (1  1tI_  a 

husband  of  Catherine. 

(Give  maiden  name  of  wife  in  full) 

(or)  WIFE  of  

(Husband’s  name  in  full) 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  If  alive  ..  7S year: 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  faot  here. 


S _Q  If  less  than  1 day 

AGE  1.0 Years Months Days  Hours Minutes 


Usual 

9 Occupation: 


Retired 


Industry 

10  or  Business:  GrOOer 


11  Social  Seourity  No.. 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City) 
(State  or  country) 


Boston;  Mass. 


17 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 

John  McIntyre 

14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
FATHER  (City)  ... 
(State  or  country) 

Ireland 

15  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 

Ann  Harkins 

16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
MOTHER  rCitvl 

Ireland 

(State  or  country) 

Informant 

dilation,  if  any 

(Address) 

" * ", ) 

A true  o 
ATTEST: 


(Registrar  of  city  oif tpwn  where  deatli 

DATE  filed Jan.  29,  1945 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


18  death°F Jan  ...M* 19.45 

(Month)  (Day) 


(Year) 


19  I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  I have  Investigated  the  death 
of  the  person  above-named  and  that  the  CAUSE  AND  MANNER  thereof 
are  as  follows:  (If  an  injury  was  involved,  state  fully.) 


Cerebral . . hmer  r.hage 

Mxw.r...ia.fle.ration 


20  Acoldent,  suicide,  or  homlolde  (specify) 

Date  of  occurrence 19 


Where  did 
Injury  occur? 


(Specify  type  of  place) 


Manner  of 
Injury  


Nature  of 
Injury  


While  at  work? Was  there  an  autopsy?  QO 


21  Was  disease  or  Injury  In  any  way  related  to  occupation  of  deceased? 

If  so,  speoify  

(Signed) T*.  Leary M.  d. 

(Address) Date ....  1/25/46 


22  Holy  Cross, Malden 

Place  of  Burial,  Cremation  or  Removal. 


DATE  OF  BURIAL 


(City  or  Town) 

Jan*  27  f 1945  19 


23  NAME  OF  r f O 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR  ..  • Y 


address Winthrop 


Received  and  filed 19 

rtj  3 1345 


(City  or  town  and  State) 

Did  injury  occur  In  or  about  the  home,  on  farm,  In  Industrial  place,  or  In 
publlo  plaoe?  


(Registrar  of  City  or  Town  where  deceased  resided) 


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extracts  from  the  laws  relative  to  the  return  of  certificates  of  death. 

If  deceased  was  a U.  S.  War  Veteran,  G.  L.  Chap.  46,  Sootion  10,  requires  physicians  to  Insert  a reoital  to  that  effect 


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(£ammrmfai'nlttj  af  JHassnrfjnsetts 
OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

MEDICAL  EXAMINER'S 
CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


To  be  filed  for  burial  permit 
with  Board  of  Health 
or  its  Agent. 


Registered  No. 


2 FULL  NAME. 


St.  ( (If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 

’ I give  its  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 

f PHYSICIAN-IMPORTANT 


V_.  O ; J (Was  deceased  a 


(a)  Residence.  No.  

(Usual  place  of  abode) 

Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  Institution..  3*0=.... 

(Before  death)  < Specify  whether) 


"l  U.  S.  War  Veteran, 

If  so  speoify  WAR)....N.Q 


years 


months 


days. 


(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 

In  this  community*?  yrs.  mos.  days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


3 SEX 

Female 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

White 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 
MARRIED 

widowed  Single 

or  DIVORCED  0 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced 

HUSBAND  of  

(Give  maiden  name  of  wife  in  full) 

(or)  WIFE  of  

(Husband's  name  in  full) 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive  years 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


AGE  41  Years Months 


Days 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours Minutes 


Usual 


9 Occupation : ■•Ra.ta.ll-.S.t-ar.a.-Pr.gpple-t-<a?- 


10  or  Business:  K.S..fc.&i.l....V.£lP.i.9.t.y....S.t-GI?.e.. 


11  Social  Security  No UOH3. 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City) 
(State  or  country) 


St. iPhtt'A 


Kew  Brunswick 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 


William  Cohen 


</) 

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cc 

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Q.  ! 


14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
FATHER  (City)  . 
(State  or  country) 


..Russia. 


15  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 


Flora  Wolgemuth 


16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
MOTHER  (City)  . 
(State  or  country) 


"Russia" 


17 


Informant 

( Ait'lrec* 


t Lewis Cohan ( 

1 bo  za  It  an  i..  & 1 1 a.  p an 


I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  a satisfactory  standard  certificate  of  death  was 
Jhed  with  me  BEFORE  the  burial  or  transit  permit  was  Issued: 



_ (Signature  of  Agent  of  Board  pf  Health  a>r  other) 

...  //^  t/9S~r 

| (bfflcia^Besigiiation)  (Ijfte  of  Is^jm  or  Permit) 


18 


SeaTh°f L.  &*==  >...? -.1.1  l..± 

J (Month)  (Day)  (Year) 


19  I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  I have  investigated  the  death 
of  the  person  above-named  and  that  the  CAUSE  AND  MANNER  thereof 
are  as  follows:  (If  an  injury  was  involved/ 


are  as  follows:  (If  an  injury  was  UvoIved^'S&fte  fully.) 


20  Acoident.  suioide,  or  homloide  (specify). 

Date  of  ooourrenoe J.Auu,—..  2r...^..XZ. i9..u:.0.. 


Where  did  v\r-r  T/Lvs.yf1? 

Injury  ocour7  

or  town  a 


Did  Injury  ocour  In  or  aoou^hon 
plaoe?  .7.™ 


and  State) 

on  farm,  In  Industrial  plaoe,  or  In  publlo 


(Specify  type  of  place) 

Ql&Z. 

_wr^TTT....Was  there  an  autopsy? 


Manner 
Injury 

Nature  of 
Injury  .... 

While  at  work? 


21  Was  disease  or  Injury  in  any.watM^ftded  to  oooupation  of  deoeased? 

" ”;z:  ’’ 

J&svd i9  )/i 


(Address) 


22  Tiferath  Israel of....^i^nthPOG-3v^p.9.t \ 

Place  of  Burial,  Cremation  or  Removal.  (City  or  “own) 

DATE  OF  BURIAL January.....  2.8.th, i9.V.i 


ADDRESS 


/S' 


Ct.v/.d... 


23  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR  yS 


Reoeived  and  filed T9 

(Registrar) 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS  OF  THE 

COMMONWEALTH  OF  MASSACHUSETTS 

GOVERNING  THE 

RETURN  OF  CERTIFICATES  OF  DEATH 


A physician  or  registered  hospital  medioal  offioer  shall  forthwith,  after 
the  death  of  a person  whom  he  has  attended  during  his  last  illness,  at  the 
request  of  an  undertaker  or  other  authorized  person  or  of  any  member  of 
the  family  of  the  deceased,  furnish  for  registration  a standard  certificate  of 
death,  stating  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief  the  name  of  the 
deceased,  his  supposed  age,  the  disease  of  which  he  died,  defined  as  required 
by  section  one,  where  same  was  contracted,  the  duration  of  his  last  illness, 
when  last  seen  alive  by  the  physician  or  officer  and  the  date  of  his  death  . . . 
Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  46,  Sec.  9. 

A physician  or  officer  furnishing  a certificate  of  death  as  required  by  the 
preceding  section  or  by  section  forty-five  of  chapter  one  hundred  and  four- 
teen, shall,  if  the  deceased,  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief,  served 
in  the  army,  navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  United  States  in  any  war  in  which 
it  has  been  engaged,  insert  in  the  certificate  a recital  to  that  effect,  speci- 
fying the  war,  and  shall  also  certify  in  such  certificate  both  the  primary 
and  the  secondary  or  immediate  cause  of  death  as  nearly  as  he  can  state 
the  same.  For  neglect  to  comply  with  any  provision  of  this  section,  such 
physician  or  officer  shall  forfeit  ten  dollars.  For  the  purposes  of  this  sec- 
tion and  of  sections  forty-five,  forty-six  and  forty-seven  of  said  chapter  one 
hundred  and  fourteen,  the  word  “war”  shall  include  the  China  relief  ex- 
pedition and  the  Philippine  insurrection,  which  shall,  for  said  purposes,  be 
deemed  to  have  taken  place  between  February  fourteenth,  eighteen  hundred 
and  ninety-eight  and  July  fourth,  nineteen  hundred  and  two,  and  the  Mexi- 
can border  service  of  nineteen  hundred  and  sixteen  and  nineteen  hundred 
and  seventeen.  G.  L.  Chap.  46,  Sec.  10. 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  or  otherwise  dispose  of  a human 
body  in  a town,  or  remove  therefrom  a human  body  which  has  not  been 
buried,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from  the  board  of  health,  or  its 
agent  appointed  to  issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  from 
til.-  clerk  of  thp  town  where  the  person  died;  and  no  undertaker  or  other 
person  shall  exhume  a human  body  and  remove  it  from  a town,  from  one 
cemetery  to  another,  or  from  one  grave  or  tomb  other  than  the  receiving 
tomb  to  another  in  the  same  cemetery,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from 
the  board  of  health  or  its  agent  aforesaid  or  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  body  is  buried.  No  such  permit  shall  be  issued  until  there  shall 
have  been  delivered  to  such  board,  agent  or  clerk,  as  the  case  may  be,  a 
satisfactory  written  statement  containing  the  facts  required  by  law  to  be 
returned  and  recorded,  which  shall  be  accompanied,  in  case  of  an  original 
interment,  by  a satisfactory  certificate  of  the  attending  physician,  if  any, 
as  required  by  law,  or  in  lieu  thereof  a certificate  as  hereinafter  provided. 
If  there  is  no  attending  physician,  or  if,  for  sufficient  reasons,  his  certificate 
cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  or  is  insufficient,  a physi- 
cian who  is  a member  of  the  board  of  health,  or  employed  by  it  or  by  the 
selectmen  for  the  purpose,  shall  upon  application  make  the  certificate  re- 
quired of  the  attending  physician.  If  death  is  caused  by  violence,  the 
medical  examiner  shall  make  such  certificate.  If  such  a permit  for  the 
removal  of  a human  body,  not  previously  interred,  from  one  town  to  an- 
other within  the  commonwealth  cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the 
purpose,  the  certificate  of  death  made  as  above  provided  and  in  the  pos- 
session of  the  undertaker  desiring  to  make  such  removal  shall  constitute  a 
permit  for  such  removal;  provided,  that  such  body  shall  be  returned  to  the 
town  from  which  it  was  removed  within  thirty-six  hours  after  such  re- 
moval, unless  a permit  in  the  usual  form  for  the  removal  of  such  body  has 
been  sooner  obtained  hereunder.  If  the  death  certificate  contains  a recital, 
as  required  by  section  ten  of  chapter  forty-six,  that  the  deceased  served  in 
the  army,  navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  United  States  in  any  war  in  which 


DESCRIPTION  (for  unknown  person) 


it  has  been  engaged,  such  recital  shall  appear  upon  the  permit.  The  board 
of  health,  or  its  agent,  upon  receipt  of  such  statement  and  certificate,  shall 
forthwith  countersign  it  and  transmit  it  to  the  clerk  of  the  town  for  regis- 
tration. The  person  to  whom  the  permit  is  so  given  and  the  physician  cer- 
tifying the  cause  of  death  -ball  thereafter  furnish  for  registration  any  other 
necessary  information  which  can  be  obtained  as  to  the  deceaoe.i,  or  as  to 
the  manner  or  cause  of  ihe  death,  which  the  clerk  or  registrar  may  re- 
quire.— Chap.  114,  Sec.  4 5,  G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition). 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  a human  body  or  the  ashes 
thereof  which  have  been  brought  into  the  commonwealth  until  he  has  re- 
ceived a permit  so  to  do  from  the  board  of  health  or  its  agent  appointed  to 
issue  sucli  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  body  is  to  be  buried  or  the  funeral  is  to  be  held,  or  from  a per- 
son appointed  to  have  the  care  of  the  cemetery  or  burial  ground  in  which 
the  interment  is  made.  ...  Chap.  114,  Sec.  46,  G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edi- 
tion). 

Medical  examiners  shall  make  examination  upon  the  view  of  the  dead 
bodies  of  only  such  persons  as  are  supposed  to  have  died  by  violence.  If  a 
medical  examiner  has  notice  that  there  is  within  his  county  the  body  of 
such  a person,  he  shall  forthwith  go  to  the  place  where  the  body  lies  and 
take  charge  of  the  same;... — General  Laws,  Chap.  38,  Sec.  6. 

...  He  shall  in  all  cases  certify  to  the  town  clerk  or  registrar  in  the 
place  where  the  deceased  died  his  name  and  residence,  if  known;  otherwise 
a description  as  full  as  may  be,  with  the  cause  and  manner  of  death. — 
General  Laws,  Chap.  38,  Sec.  7. 

. . . The  medical  examiner  certifies  the  cause  and  manner  of  death  to  the 
best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief. 

RULES  OF  PRACTICE 

The  fulfillment  of  the  purpose  of  these  laws  calls  for  the  observance  of 
the  following  rules  of  practice: 

(1)  Attending  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those  of 
persons  to  whom  they  have  given  bedside  care  during  a last  illness  from 
disease  unrelated  to  any  form  of  injury. 

(2)  Board  of  Health  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those 
of  persons  who,  though  disabled  by  recognized  disease  unrelated  to  any 
form  of  injury,  have  died  without  recent  medical  attendance  or  whose  physi- 
cian is  absent  from  home  when  the  certificate  of  death  is  needed. 

(vl)  Medical  Examiners  will  investigate  and  certify  to  all  deaths  sup* 
posably  due  to  injury.  These  include  not  only  deaths  caused  directly  or  in- 
directly by  traumatism  (including  resulting  septicemia),  and  by  the  action 
of  chemical  (drugs  or  poisons),  thermal,  or  electrical  agents,  and  deaths 
following  abortion,  but  also  deaths  front  disease  resulting  from  Injury  or 
Infection  related  to  occupation,  the  sudden  deaths  of  persons  not  disabled 
by  reoognized  disease,  and  those  of  persons  found  dead. 


STATEMENT  OF  CAUSE  OF  DEATH 
Medical  Examiners  in  certifying  to  a death  will  state  the  cause  and 
manner  thereof,  and  will  specify:  (1)  Under  cause,  the  nature  of  an  injury 
and  of  its  consequences;  and  (2)  under  manneT,  the  mode  of  its  production 
together  with  the  circumstances  when  these  are  known.  For  example:  “Com- 
pound fracture  of  the  femur  with  ensuing  septicemia  (gas  bacillus)  caused 
by  a steam  railway  accident.”  “Pistol  shot  wound  of  the  chest  with  asso- 
ciated hemorrhage,  homicidal.”  “Asphyxiation  by  suspension,  suicidal.” 
“Syncope  while  under  the  influence  of  ether  administered  as  a surgical 
anaesthetic."  “Fracture  of  the  skull  with  associated  internal  injury  sus- 
tained under  circumstances  unknown.” 

If  disease  or  injury  was  related  to  occupation,  specify.  If  investigation 
shows  the  death  to  have  been  due  to  disease,  specify:  (1)  Under  cause  its 
known  or  presumable  nature;  and  (2)  under  manner,  indicate  the  circum- 
stances leading  to  medico-legal  inquiry.  For  example:  “Hemorrhage  spon- 
taneous of  the  brain  (basal  ganglia)  (found  dead  in  bed).”  “Heart  disease, 
presumably  coronary  sclerosis.  (Sudden  death.)” 


NOTICE  TO  UNDERTAKERS:  No  embalming  fluid,  or  any  substitute  therefor,  shall  be  injected  into  the  body  of 
any  person  supposed  to  have  met  his  death  by  violence,  until  a permit,  signed  by  the  Medical  Examiner,  has  first  been 
obtained. — General  Laws,  Chap.  38,  Sec.  14. 

THIS  CERTIFICATE  CONSTITUTES  SUCH  PERMIT 


Veteran,  Q.  L.  Chap.  46.  Seotlon  10,  require*  phyelolans  to  Ineert  • reoiUI  to  that  effeot. 


101  A 


S.UflQ.Ifc. 


(Ehr  ConmumfacaItJ|  of  JHassacljusctts 

OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


(Ceunty)^> 

o Winthrop 

“j  (City  or  Town)*' 

2 «• flnthrap  Community  Hoapltnl "U’tsa 


To  be  filed  for  burial  permit 
with  Board  of  Health 
or  its  Agent.  _ . 

91 

Registered  No .L^kSr... 


( PHYSICIAN  - IMPORTANT 

2 FULL  NAME B.Q.R.0Xt.€L...G.Q.V.e.i.& J (Was  deceased  a 

(If  deceased  Is  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.)  I ?;■  Wa.(  vf*eran,  _ 

I if  so  specify  WAR)  ffy 

(a)  Residence.  No £.3.3. S.&r.ft.t.Qg.&..^l££.» BaS±:.:.BO.SCtDH SL  EaSt-BOSt-OIl 

(Usual  place  of  abode)  (If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 


Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  nr  Institution  .SOSpirt&X  »year*  _ months  ^^dayg. 
(Before  death)  (Specify  whether) 


In  this  community  — yrs.  _ moa.  ^ ^ . dara. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


3 SEX 

female 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

white 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 
MARRIED 
WIDOWED 
or  DIVORCED 


18  DATE  OF  / 
DEATH  L 


(Month) 


(Day) 


/*yC. 


(Year) 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divoroed 

HUSBAND  of  

(Give  maiden  name  of  wife  in  full) 

(or)  WIFE  of  

(Husband's  name  in  full) 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive  „ years 


19.  I HEREBY  CERTIFY,  That  I attended  deoeased  from 

-to ..j£*rrerr....?Uy.. , 19  ifl- 

last  saw  h^i!/L  alive  on....AJg^^..Z)Sr.'^. 19 ."death  Is  said  to  .. 

ive  occurred  on  tha  data  stAJed  above,  at..., m. 7 — ^ K 


have 

Immediate  oauee  of  death 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


,z_ 


8 

AGE 


Years 


If  less  than  1 day 

Mnnthe  J»40ays  I Hours Minutes 


Usual 

9 Occuoalion : 


at  home 


Due  to 


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


none 


Oue  to  . 


1 1 Social  Security  No. 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (Cily) 

(Siafe  or  country)  MclSS 


irons 

Mnthrop. 


Other  conditions 

(include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 


Augustino  Goveia 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations  . 


14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
FATHER  (City) 
(State  or  country) 


Lowell 
Mas  s • 


Data  of  . 


13  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 


Sarah  Petralia 


16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
MOTHER  (City) 
(State  or  country) 


East  Boston 
Mass. 


17 


Informant 
( Addrtst) 


B§a§£&e0gg^.  €iir 


OIL 


I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  a satisfactory  standard  oartlfloate  of  death  was 
Hitjf  ywltb  sm  BEFORE  the  Jkttrial  or  tranelt/permlt  wee  Issued  t 


m 


(S%n'.t4re  of 
*1  Dcslfmatlon) 


ard  of 


(Date  of  feaue 


TCmI 7 


Of  autopsy 

What  test  oonflrmed  diagnosis?  . 


Duration 


IMP.QUIAN 


> 


■s 


v 

h 


IMPORTANT 


Physician 


Underline 
the  cause  to 
which  death 
should  be 
charged  sta- 
tistically. 


20  Was  disease  or  injury  in  any  way  related  to  oooupatlon  of  deoeased  7 
If  so,  specify j 

(Signed) . M.  0., 


(Address) 


21 


Place  of  (Mfial,  Cremation  or  Removal.  (City  01 

date  of  burial. J.&nuary  31,1945 


(City  or  Town) 


19. 


22  NAME  OF  r>  p m-phtT 

funeral  director  uy 

Boston... 


ADDRESS 


-Received  and  illad 19. 


( Regietrer 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS  OF  THE 

COMMONWEALTH  OF  MASSACHUSETTS 

GOVERNING  THE 

RETURN  OF  CERTIFICATES  OF  DEATH 

A physician  or  registered  hospital  medical  officer  shall  forthwith,  after 
the  death  of  a person  whom  he  has  attended  during  his  last  illness,  at  the 
request  of  an  undertaker  or  other  authorized  person  or  of  any  member  of 
the  family  of  the  deceased,  furnish  for  registration  a standard  certificate 
of  death,  stating  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief  the  name  of  the 
deceased,  his  supposed  age,  the  disease  of  which  he  died,  defined  as  re- 
quired by  section  one,  where  same  was  contracted,  the  duration  of  his  last 
illness,  when  last  seen  alive  by  the  physician  or  officer  and  the  date  of 
bis  death  . . . Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  46,  Sec.  9. 

A physician  or  officer  furnishing  a certificate  of  death  a9  required  by  the 
preceding  section  or  by  section  forty-five  of  chapter  one  hundred  and  four- 
teen, shall,  if  the  deceased,  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief,  served 
in  the  army,  navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  United  States  in  any  war  in  which 
it  has  been  engaged,  insert  in  the  certificate  a recital  to  that  effect,  speci- 
fying the  war,  and  shall  also  certify  in  such  certificate  both  the  primary 
and  the  secondary  or  immediate  cause  of  death  as  nearly  as  he  can  state 
the  same.  For  neglect  to  comply  with  any  provision  of  this  section,  such 
physician  or  officer  shall  forfeit  ten  dollars.  For  the  purposes  of  this  sec- 
tion and  of  sections  forty-five,  forty-six  and  forty-seven  of  said  chapter 
one  hundred  and  fourteen,  the  word  “war”  shall  include  the  China  relief 
expedition  and  the  Philippine  insurrection,  which  shall,  for  said  purposes, 
be  deemed  to  have  taken  place  between  February  fourteenth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  ninety-eight  and  July  fourth,  nineteen  hundred  and  two,  and 
the  Mexican  border  service  of  nineteen  hundred  and  sixteen  and  nine- 
teen hundred  and  seventeen.  G.  L.  Chap.  46,  Sec.  10. 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  or  otherwise  dispose  of  a human 
body  in  a town,  or  remove  therefrom  a human  body  which  has  not  been 
buried,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from  the  board  of  health,  or  its 
agent  appointed  to  issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  from 
the  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  person  died;  and  no  undertaker  or  other 
person  shall  exhume  a human  body  and  remove  it  from  a town,  from  one 
cemetery  to  another,  or  from  one  grave  or  tomb  other  than  the  receiving 
tomb  to  another  in  the  same  cemetery,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from 
the  board  of  health  or  its  agent  aforesaid  or  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  body  is  buried.  No  such  permit  shall  be  issued  until  there  shall 
have  been  delivered  to  such  board,  agent  or  clerk,  as  the  case  may  be, 
a satisfactory  written  statement  containing  the  facts  required  by  law  to  be 
returned  and  recorded,  which  shall  be  accompanied,  in  case  of  an  original 
interment,  by  a satisfactory  certificate  of  the  attending  physician,  if  any, 
as  required  by  law,  or  in  lieu  thereof  a certificate  as  hereinafter  provided. 
If  there  is  no  attending  physician,  or  if,  for  sufficient  reasons,  his  certificate 
cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  or  is  insufficient,  a physi- 
cian who  is  a member  of  the  board  of  health,  or  employed  by  it  or  by  the 
selectmen  for  the  purpose,  shall  upon  application  make  the  certificate  re- 
quired of  the  attending  physician.  If  death  is  caused  by  violence,  the  medi- 
cal examiner  shall  make  such  certificate.  If  such  a permit  for  the  removal 
of  a human  body,  not  previously  interred,  from  one  town  to  another  within 
the  commonwealth  cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  the 
certificate  of  death  made  as  above  provided  and  in  the  possession  of  the 
undertaker  desiring  to  make  such  removal  shall  constitute  a permit  for 
such  removal;  provided,  that  such  body  shall  be  returned  to  the  town  from 
which  it  was  removed  within  thirty-six  hours  after  such  removal,  unless 
a permit  in  the  usual  form  for  the  removal  of  such  body  has  been  sooner 
obtained  hereunder.  If  the  death  certificate  contains  a recital,  as  required 


by  section  ten  ui  cliapter  lorty-six,  tnat  tile  deceased  served  in  the  army, 
navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  United  States  in  any  war  in  which  it  has  been 
engaged,  such  recital  shall  appear  upon  the  permit.  The  board  of  health, 
or  its  agent,  upon  receipt  of  such  statement  and  certificate,  shall  forthwith 
countersign  it  and  transmit  it  to  the  clerk  of  the  town  for  registration. 
The  person  to  whom  the  permit  is  so  given  and  the  physician  certifying 
the  cause  of  death  shall  thereafter  furnish  for  registration  any  other  neces- 
sary information  which  can  be  obtained  as  to  the  deceased,  or  as  to  the 
manner  or  cause  of  the  death,  which  the  clerk  or  registrar  may  require. — 
Chap.  114,  Sec.  45,  G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition). 


Medical  examiners  shall  make  examination  upon  the  view  of  the  dead 
bodies  of  only  such  persons  as  are  supposed  to  have  died  by  violence. 
If  a medical  examiner  has  notice  that  there  is  within  his  county  the  body 
of  such  a person,  he  shall  forthwith  go  to  the  place  where  the  body  lies 
and  take  charge  of  the  same;  . , . — General  Laws,  Chap.  38,  Sec.  6. 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  a human  body  or  the  ashes 
thereof  which  have  been  brought  into  the  commonwealth  until  he  has  re- 
ceived a permit  so  to  do  from  the  board  of  health  or  its  agent  appointed  to 
issue  such -permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  body  is  to  be  buried  or  the  funeral  is  to  be  held,  or  from  a person 
appointed  to  have  the  care  of  the  cemetery  or  burial  ground  in  which  the 
interment  is  made.  . . . Chap.  114,  Sec.  46,  G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition). 

RULES  OF  PRACTICE 

The  fulfillment  of  the  purpose  of  these  laws  calls  for  the  observance  of 
the  following  rules  of  practice: 

(1)  Attending  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those  of 
persons  to  whom  they  have  given  bedside  care  during  a last  illness  from 
disease  unrelated  to  any  form  of  injury. 

(2)  Board  of  Health  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those 
of  persons  who,  though  disabled  by  recognized  disease  unrelated  to  any 
form  of  injury,  have  died  without  recent  medical  attendance  or  whose  phy- 
sician is  absent  from  home  when  the  certificate  of  death  is  needed. 

(3)  Medical  Examiners  will  investigate  and  certify  to  all  deaths  sup- 
posably  due  to  injury.  These  include  not  only  deaths  caused  directly  or 
indirectly  by  traumatism  (including  resulting  septicemia),  and  by  the 
action  of  chemical  (drugs  or  poisons),  thermal,  or  electrical  agents,  and 
deaths  following  abortion,  but  also  deaths  from  disease  resulting  from 
injury  or  infection  related  to  occupation,  the  sudden  deaths  of  persons  not 
disabled  by  recognized  disease,  and  those  of  persons  found  dead. 


Statement  of  Cause  of  Death. — Cause  of  death  means  the  disease,  or 
complication  which  causes  death,  not  the  mode  of  dying,  e.  g.,  heart  failure, 
asphyxia,  asthenia,  etc.  As  principal  cause  name  the  disease  causing  death. 
As  related  causes,  name  earlier  morbid  conditions,  if  any,  related  to  the 
principal  cause  and  any  important  complication  of  the  principal  cause. 


Statement  of  Occupation. — Precise  statement  of  occupation  is  very  im- 
portant, so  that  the  relative  healthfulness  of  various  pursuits  can  be  known. 
Make  some  entry  in  this  section  for  every  person  aged  10  years  or  over. 
If  the  occupation  had  been  given  up  or  changed  on  account  of  the  disease 
causing  death,  report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  illness.  If  the  deceased 
had  retired  from  business,  report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  retirement. 
Children  not  gainfully  employed  may  be  returned  as  at  school  or  at  home. 
For  a woman  whose  only  occupation  was  that  of  home  housework,  write 
housework.  For  a person  engaged  in  domestic  service  for  wages,  how- 
ever, designate  the  occupation  by  the  appropriate  terms,  as  housekeeper — 
private  family,  cook — hotel,  etc.  For  a person  who  had  no  occupation 
whatever  write  none. 


SPACE  FOR  ADDITIONAL  INFORMATION 


lrom  me  laws  on  dock  o» 

If  deceased  was  a U.  S.  War  Veteran,  G.  L.,  Chap.  4G,  Sec.  10,  requires  physicians  to  insert  a recital  to  that  effect. 


1 A 


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OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

DIVISION  OF  VITAL.  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 

CERTSFICATE  OF  DEATH 


To  be  filed  for  barlftl  permit 
with  Board  of  Health 
or  ft*  Agent. 

OO 

Registrar’s  No. 


<.  J (If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 
( give  its  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 


2 FULL  NAME_ 


Minnie  F Richardson  (Williams) 

(If  deceased  is  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.) 


{FUt 

(Was 
U.  S. 
if  so 


PHYSICIAN— IMPORTANT 

deceased  a 
War  Veteran, 
specify  WAR).. 


(a)  Residence.  No.  52  Washington  Ave. 

(Usual  place  of  abode) 


Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  Institution.... 


(Before  death) 


(Specify  whether) 


years 


months 


..St. 


days. 


(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 

In  this  community  25)rs.  mcs.  days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 

Female 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

White 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 
MARRIED 
WIDOWED 


or 


IDUWED  IaMR  0.1.7 

DIVORCED  « 1 CLOW 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced 
HUSBAND  of 


(or)  WIFE  of 


(Give  maiden  name  of  wife  in  full) 

.Edward  G Richardson 


(Husband’s  name  in  full) 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive_ 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


8 

AGE_. 


.73 


Years_ Months Days 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours-___— .Minutes 


Usual 

9 Occupation: 


At  Home 


Industry 
10  or  Business: 


11  Social  Security  No. 


Hone. 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City) 
(State  or  country) 


Charlestown 
Mass . 


13  NAME  OF 

FATHER  jamejJ 

Williams 

14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
FATHER  (City) 

Gloucester 

(State  or  country) 

England 

15  MAIDEN  NAME 

Marglla  F Seabe r 

16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 

MOTHER  (City)  

Boston 

(State  or  country) 

Mass . 

Informan 

(Address) 


w 

m 


WlnlMF 


--) 


with  me  BEFORE  the  burial  or  transit  permit  was  issued: 
1EBY  CERTIFY  tlurtul  satisfactory  standard  certificate  of  death 


ICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


7Ty^ 

(•Year!/  ^ 


FII  E R 


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saw  on. 

occurred  on  the  date 
Immediate  cause  of  death 


That  I attended  deceased  from 

, 

19^d^Tdeath  is  said  to 

am 


Due  to 


Other  conditions 

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations- 


Of  autopsy— 

What  test  confirmed  diagnosis?- 


-Date  of- 


Duration 

IMPORTANT 

J 


IMPORTANT 

Physician 


Underline 
the  cause  to 
which  death 
should  be 
charged  sta- 
tistically. 


20  Was  disease  or  injury  in  any  way  related  to  occupation  of  deceased? 

If  so,  specify 

(Signed). _.C.—. ^2 — , M.  D. 


(Address) 

21  Wood  lawn  ~ 

Place  of  Burial,  Cremation  or  Removal. 

DATE  OF  BURIAL..  January  29 


ate.irA->..--19 

ye  ret  _ 

(City  or  Town) 


22  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRECjTO. 

ADDRESS 
Received  and  filed- 


-19 


(Registrar) 


V 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS  OF  THE 

COMMONWEALTH  OF  MASSACHUSETTS 

GOVERNING  THE 

RETURN  OF  CERTIFICATES  OF  DEATH 

A physician  or  registered  hospital  medical  officer  shall  forthwith,  after 
the  death  of  a person  whom  he  has  attended  during  his  last  illness,  at  the 
request  of  an  undertaker  or  other  authorized  person  or  of  any  member  of 
the  family  of  the  deceased,  furnish  for  registration  a standard  certificate 
of  death,  stating  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief  the  name  of  the 
deceased,  his  supposed  age,  the  disease  of  which  he  died,  defined  as  re- 
quired by  section  one,  where  same  was  contracted,  the  duration  of  his  last 
illness,  when  last  seen  alive  by  the  physician  or  officer  and  the  date  of 
his  death  . . . Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  46,  Sec.  9. 

A physician  or  officer  furnishing  a certificate  of  death  as  required  by  the 
preceding  section  or  by  section  forty-five  of  chapter  one  hundred  and  four- 
teen, shall,  if  the  deceased,  to  the  best  of  his  knowledge  and  belief,  served 
in  the  army,  navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  United  States  in  any  war  in  which 
it  has  been  engaged,  insert  in  the  certificate  a recital  to  that  effect,  speci- 
fying the  war,  and  shall  also  certify  in  such  certificate  both  the  primary 
and  the  secondary  or  immediate  cause  of  death  as  nearly  as  he  can  state 
the  same.  For  neglect  to  comply  with  any  provision  of  this  section,  such 
physician  or  officer  shall  forfeit  ten  dollars.  For  the  purposes  of  this  sec- 
tion and  of  sections  forty-five,  forty-six  and  forty-seven  of  said  chapter 
one  hundred  and  fourteen,  the  word  “war”  shall  include  the  China  relief 
expedition  and  the  Philippine  insurrection,  which  shall,  for  said  purposes, 
be  deemed  to  have  taken  place  between  February  fourteenth,  eighteen 
hundred  and  ninety-eight  and  July  fourth,  nineteen  hundred  and  two,  and 
the  Mexican  border  service  of  nineteen  hundred  and  sixteen  and  nine- 
teen hundred  and  seventeen.  G.  L.  Chap.  46,  Sec.  10. 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  or  otherwise  dispose  of  a human 
body  in  a town,  or  remove  therefrom  a human  body  which  has  not  been 
buried,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from  the  board  of  health,  or  its 
agent  appointed  to  issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  from 
the  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  person  died;  and  no  undertaker  or  other 
person  shall  exhume  a human  body  and  remove  it  from  a town,  from  one 
cemetery  to  another,  or  from  one  grave  or  tomb  other  than  the  receiving 
tomb  to  another  in  the  same  cemetery,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from 
the  board  of  health  or  its  agent  aforesaid  or  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  body  is  buried.  No  such  permit  shall  be  issued  until  there  shall 
have  been  delivered  to  such  board,  agent  or  clerk,  as  the  case  may  be, 
a satisfactory  written  statement  containing  the  facts  required  by  law  to  be 
returned  and  recorded,  which  shall  be  accompanied,  in  case  of  an  original 
interment,  by  a satisfactory  certificate  of  the  attending  physician,  if  any, 
as  required  by  law,  or  in  lieu  thereof  a certificate  as  hereinafter  provided. 
If  there  is  no  attending  physician,  or  if,  for  sufficient  reasons,  his  certificate 
cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  or  is  insufficient,  a physi- 
cian who  is  a member  of  the  board  of  health,  or  employed  by  it  or  by  the 
selectmen  for  the  purpose,  shall  upon  application  make  the  certificate  re- 
quired of  the  attending  physician.  Tf  death  is  caused  by  violence,  the  medi- 
cal examiner  shall  make  such  certificate.  Tf  such  a permit  for  the  removal 
of  a human  body,  not  previously  interred,  from  one  town  to  another  within 
the  commonwealth  cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  the 
certificate  of  death  made  as  above  provided  and  in  the  possession  of  the 
undertaker  desiring  to  make  such  removal  shall  constitute  a permit  for 
such  removal;  provided,  that  such  body  shall  be  returned  to  the  town  from 
which  it  was  removed  within  thirty-six  hours  after  such  removal,  unless 
a permit  in  the  usual  form  for  the  removal  of  such  body  has  been  sooner 
obtained  hereunder.  If  the  death  certificate  contains  a recital,  as  required 


by  section  ten  of  chapter  forty-six,  that  the  deceased  served  in  tne  army, 
navy  or  marine  corps  of  the  United  States  in  any  war  in  which  it  has  been 
engaged,  such  recital  shall  appear  upon  the  permit.  The  board  of  health, 
or  its  agent,  upon  receipt  of  such  statement  and  certificate,  shall  forthwith 
countersign  it  and  transmit  it  to  the  clerk  of  the  town  for  registration. 
The  person  to  whom  the  permit  is  so  given  and  the  physician  certifying 
the  cause  of  death  shall  thereafter  furnish  for  registration  any  other  neces- 
sary information  which  can  be  obtained  as  to  the  deceased,  or  as  to  the 
manner  or  cause  of  the  death,  which  the  clerk  or  registrar  may  require. — 
Chap.  114,  Sec.  45,  G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition). 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  a human  body  or  the  ashes 
thereof  which  have  been  brought  into  the  commonwealth  until  he  has  re- 
ceived a permit  so  to  do  from  the  board  of  health  or  its  agent  appointed  to 
issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  from  the  clerk  of  the  town 
where  the  body  is  to  be  buried  or  the  funeral  is  to  be  held,  or  from  a person 
appointed  to  have  the  care  of  the  cemetery  or  burial  ground  in  which  the 
interment  is  made.  . . . Chap.  114,  Sec.  46,  G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition). 


Medical  examiners  shall  make  examination  upon  the  view  of  the  dead 
bodies  of  only  such  persons  as  are  supposed  to  have  died  by  violence. 
If  a medical  examiner  has  notice  that  there  is  within  his  county  the  body 
of  such  a person,  he  shall  forthwith  go  to  the  place  where  the  body  lies 
and  take  charge  of  the  same;  . . . — General  Laws,  Chap.  38,  Sec.  6. 

RULES  OF  PRACTICE 

The  fulfillment  of  the  purpose  of  these  laws  calls  for  the  observance  of 
the  following  rules  of  practice: 

(1)  Attending  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those  of 
persons  to  whom  they  have  given  bedside  care  during  a last  illness  from 
disease  unrelated  to  any  form  of  injury. 

(2)  Board  of  Health  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those 
of  persons  who,  though  disabled  by  recognized  disease  unrelated  to  any 
form  of  injury,  have  died  without  recent  medical  attendance  or  whose  phy- 
sician is  absent  from  home  when  the  certificate  of  death  is  needed. 

(3)  Medical  Examiners  will  investigate  and  certify  to  all  deaths  sup- 
posably  due  to  injury.  These  include  not  only  deaths  caused  directly  or 
indirectly  by  traumatism  (including  resulting  septicemia),  and  by  the 
action  of  chemical  (drugs  or  poisons),  thermal,  or  electrical  agents,  and 
deaths  following  abortion,  but  also  deaths  from  disease  resulting  from 
injury  or  infection  related  to  occupation,  the  sudden  deaths  of  persons  not 
disabled  by  recognized  disease,  and  those  of  persons  found  dead. 


Statement  of  Cause  of  Death. — Cause  of  death  means  the  disease,  or 
complication  which  causes  death,  not  the  mode  of  dying,  e.  g.,  heart  failure, 
asphyxia,  asthenia,  etc.  As  principal  cause  name  the  disease  causing  death. 
As  related  causes,  name  earlier  morbid  conditions,  if  any,  related  to  the 
principal  cause  and  any  important  complication  of  the  principal  cause. 


Statement  of  Occupation. — Precise  statement  of  occupation  is  very  im- 
portant, so  that  the  relative  healthfulness  of  various  pursuits  can  be  known. 
Make  some  entry  in  this  section  for  every  person  aged  10  years  or  over. 
If  the  occupation  had  been  given  up  or  changed  on  account  of  the  disease 
causing  death,  report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  illness.  If  the  deceased 
had  retired  from  business,  report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  retirement. 
Children  not  gainfully  employed  may  be  returned  as  at  school  or  at  home. 
For  a woman  whose  only  occupation  v.-as  that  of  home  housework,  write 
housework.  For  a person  engaged  in  domestic  service  for  wages,  how- 
ever, designate  the  occupation  by  the  appropriate  terms,  as  housekeeper — 
private  family,  cook — hotel,  etc.  For  a person  who  had  no  occupation 
whatever  write  none. 


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EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS  OF  THE 

COMMONWEALTH  OF  MASSACHUSETTS 

GOVERNING  THE 

RETURN  OF  CERTIFICATES  OF  DEATH 

A physician  or  registered  hospital  medical  officer  shall  forthwith, 
after  the  death  of  a person  whom  he  has  attended  during  his  last 
illness,  at  the  request  of  an  undertaker  or  other  authorized  person 
or  of  any  member  of  the  family  of  the  deceased,  furnish  for  regis- 
tration a standard  certificate  of  death,  stating  to  the  best  of  his 
knowledge  and  belief  the  name  of  the  deceased,  his  supposed  age, 
the  disease  of  which  he  died,  defined  as  required  by  section  one, 
where  same  was  contracted,  the  duration  of  his  last  illness,  when  last 
seen  alive  by  the  physician  or  officer  and  the  date  of  his  death  . . . 
Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  46,  Sec.  9. 

No  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  bury  or  otherwise  dispose  of  a 
human  body  in  a town,  or  remove  therefrom  a human  body  which 
has  not  been  buried,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from  the  board 
of  health  or  its  agent  appointed  to  issue  such  permits,  or  if  there 
is  no  such  board,  from  the  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  person  died  ; 
and  no  undertaker  or  other  person  shall  exhume  a human  body  and 
remove  it  from  a town,  from  one  cemetery  to  another,  or  from  one 
grave  or  tomb  other  than  the  receiving  tomb  to  another  in  the  same 
cemetery,  until  he  has  received  a permit  from  the  board  of  health  or 
its  agent  aforesaid  or  from  the  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  body  is 
buried.  No  such  permit  shall  be  issued  until  there  shall  have  been  de- 
livered to  such  board,  agent  or  clerk,  as  the  case  may  be.  a satisfac- 
tory written  statement  containing  the  facts  required  by  law  to  be 
returned  and  recorded,  which  shall  be  accompanied,  in  case  of  an 
original  interment,  by  a satisfactory  certificate  of  the  attending 
physician,  if  any,  as  required  by  law,  or  in  lieu  thereof  a certificate 
as  hereinafter  provided.  If  there  is  no  attending  physician,  or  if,  for 
sufficient  reasons,  his  certificate  cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for 
the  purpose,  or  is  insufficient,  a physician  who  is  a member  of  the 
board  of  health,  or  employed  by  it  or  by  the  selectmen  for  the  pur- 
pose, shall  upon  application  make  the  certificate  required  of  the  at- 
tending physician.  If  death  is  caused  by  violence,  the  medical  exam- 
iner shall  make  such  certificate.  If  such  a permit  for  the  removal  of 
a human  body,  not  previously  interred,  from  one  town  to  another 
within  the  commonwealth  cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the 
purpose,  the  certificate  of  death  made  as  above  provided  and  in  the 
possession  of  the  undertaker  desiring  to  make  such  a removal  shall 
constitute  a permit  for  such  removal  ; provided,  that  such  body  shall 
be  returned  to  the  town  from  which  it  was  removed  within  thirty- 
six  hours  after  such  removal,  unless  a permit  in  the  usual  form  for 
the  removal  of  such  body  has  been  sooner  obtained  hereunder.  If  the 
death  certificate  contains  a recital,  as  required  by  section  ten  of 
chapter  forty-six,  that  the  deceased  served  in  the  army,  navy  or 
marine  corps  of  the  United  States  in  any  war  in  which  it  has  been 
engaged,  such  recital  shall  appear  upon  the  permit.  The  board  of 
health,  or  its  agent,  upon  receipt  of  such  statement  and  certificate, 
shall  forthwith  countersign  it  and  transmit  it  to  the  clerk  of  the 
town  for  registration.  The  person  to  whom  the  permit  is  so  given 
and  the  physician  certifying  the  cause  of  death  shall  thereafter  fur- 
nish for  registration  any  other  necessary  information  which  can  be 


obtained  as  to  the  deceased,  or  as  to  the  manner  or  cause  of  the 
death,  which  the  clerk  or  registrar  may  require. — Chap.  114,  Sec.  45, 
G.  L.,  (Tercentenary  Edition.) 


No  undertaker  or  other  person  3hall  bury  a human  body  or  the 
ashes  thereof  which  have  been  brought  into  the  commonwealth  until 
he  has  received  a permit  so  to  do  from  the  board  of  health  or  its 
agent  appointed  to  issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board, 
from  the  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  body  is  to  be  buried  or  the 
funeral  is  to  be  held,  or  from  a person  appointed  to  have  the  care 
of  the  cemetery  or  burial  ground  in  which  the  interment  is  made.  . . . 
Chap.  114,  Sec.  46,  G.  L.,  ( Tercentenary  Edition.) 


RULES  OF  PRACTICE 

The  fulfillment  of  the  purpose  of  these  laws  calls  for  the  observ- 
ance of  the  following  rules  of  practice: 

(1)  Attending  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only  as  those 
of  persons  to  whom  they  have  given  bedside  care  during  a last  ill- 
ness from  disease  unrelated  to  any  form  of  injury. 

(2)  hoard  of  Health  physicians  will  certify  to  such  deaths  only 
as  those  of  persons  who,  though  disabled  by  recognized  disease  un- 
related to  any  form  of  injury,  have  died  without  recent  medical 
attendance  or  whose  physician  is  absent  from  home  when  the 
certificate  of  death  is  needed. 

(3)  Medical  Examiners  will  investigate  and  certify  to  all  deaths 
supposably  due  to  injury.  These  include  not  only  deaths  caused 
directly  or  indirectly  by  traumatism  (including  resulting  septice- 
mia), and  by  the  action  of  chemical  (drugs  or  poisons),  thermal, 
or  electrical  agents,  and  deaths  following  abortion,  but  also  deaths 
from  disease  resulting  from  injury  or  infection  related  to  occupa- 
tion, the  sudden  deaths  of  persons  not  disabled  by  recognized 
disease,  and  those  of  persons  found  dead. 


Statement  of  Cause  of  Death. — Cause  of  death  means  the  disease, 
or  complication  which  causes  death,  not  the  mode  of  dying,  e.  g., 
heart  failure,  asphyxia,  asthenia,  etc.  As  principal  cause  name  the 
disease  causing_death.  As  related  causes,  name  earlier  morbid  con- 
ditions, if  any  related  to  the  principal  cause  and  any  important 
complication  of  the  principal  cause. 


Statement  of  Occupation. — Precise  statement  of  occupation  is  very 
important,  so  that  the  relative  healthfulness  of  various  pursuits 
can  be  known.  Make  some  entry  in  this  section  for  every  person 
aged  10  years  or  over.  If  the  occupation  had  been  given  up  or 
changed  on  account  of  the  disease  causing  death,  report  the  usual 
occupation  prior  to  illness.  If  the  deceased  had  retired  from  busi- 
ness, report  the  usual  occupation  prior  to  retirement.  Children  not 
gainfully  employed  may  be  returned  as  at  school  or  at  home.  For  a 
woman  whose  only  occupation  was  that  of  home  housework,  write 
houseivork.  For  a person  engaged  in  domestic  service  for  wages, 
however,  designate  t

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