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DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 


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


Registered  No. 


h occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 

gTve  its  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 


2 full  name  Annie  Slanch  (Cropley ) Moody 

(If  deceased  is  a married,  jjjjduwed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also^ajiden  name.) 


(a)  Residence.  No. 

(Usual  place  of  abode) 


Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  institution  v - yean?  » mo 

(Before  death)  (Specify  wheth/r) ys  f-TTl  P — 


months 


days. 


(If  nonresident 

In  this  community  dV  yrs. 


PHYSICIAN-  IMPORTANT 

(Was  deceased  a 
U.  S.  War  Veteran, 
specify  WAR) 

SK~4 14S> 

or  town  and  State) 


days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICa 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 

MARRIED  Vl  * 

WIDOWED 
or  DIVORCED 


5a  If  married,  widowed  or  divorced 
HUSBAND  of 

(Give  maiden  najne  qf  wife 

FreaericK  moo 

(Husband's  name  in  full) 


(or)  WIFE  of 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive 


years 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


8 

AGE 


7 s* 


Years 


Months 


? 


Days 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours 


Minutes 


Usual 

9 Occupation: 


Industry 
10  or  Business: 


11  Social  Security  No. 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City) 
(State  or  Country) 


Tl<r 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 


14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
FATHER  (City) 
(State  or  Country; 


15  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 


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


17 


Informant 

(Address 


/ illation.  if  any 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


18  DATE  OF 
DEATH 


th) 


(Day)  / 


/*V7 

(Year) 


I HEREBY  CERTIFY, 


«fiB  - 

Pk 30 . 

I Hast  saw  h -ft/-  alive  on 
have  occurred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at 


That  I attended  deceased  from 


TIFY,  That  I attende 
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31 


19 


ft 


oS 


% 


19 


*7 


death  is  said  to 


Immediate  cause  qf_  deaths 


Duration 

IMPORTANT 


Due  to  CLccdt 
Duo  -to 

cA.r-i*  w i 

Other  condition 

(Include  pregnancyoviUiin  3 gionths  of  d<Afh)  . 

-IMPORTANT 

Of  operations 

’ - tx/77  /SYS  

Of  autopsy  YUVvU 

diagnos.srC^^f^Wi^ 


What  test  confirmed  i 


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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  t— — 

(Signed)'^sC>v~v-<-«5-tr  ( ^c~~ — — yj — t 
(Address)  l^fi^Wate  W-  I 

1 4*  Vi  m ^ 


21  Winthrop .... 

Place  of  Burial.  Cremation  or  Removal 


UntHrop 

(City  or  Town) 


DATE  OF  BURIAL 


ADDRESS 
Received  and  Filed 


JAN  3 1347 


19 


(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  t/eatb  of  a person  whom  he  has  attended  during  his  last  illness,  at  the 
reauest  of  an  undertaker  or  other  authorized  person  or  of  any  member  of 

illness,  when  last  seen  alive  by  the  physician  or  officer  and  the  date  ot 
hia  death  , . . Gen.  Laws,  Chap.  46,  bee.  9. 

A physician  or  officer  furnishing  a certificate  of  death  as  required  by  the 
preceding  section  orby  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  wh  ch 
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  .tbcP"™|ty 
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 
?ion  and  of  section,  forty-five,  forty;.ix  and  the  Chfna  reUe 

one  hundred  and  fourteen,  the  word  war  shall  *nc>u.def  th*  1 ??'“*  "*'** 
expedition  and  the  Philippine  insurrection,  which  shall,  for  said  purposes 
bePdeemed  to  have  taken  place  between  February  fourte 'nth> 

hundred  and  ninety-eight  and  luly  fourth “a^.lxte en^ nd  nine^ 
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 
burfed  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 i boar rd,  from 
the  clerk  of  the  town  where  the  person  died;  and  no  undertaker  or  other 
person  shall  exhume  a human  body  and  remove  lt  ™m  a r,*n'  «£“ving 
eemeterv  to  another,  or  from  one  grave  or  tomb  other  than  tne  receiving 
tomb  to  another  in  the  same  cemetery,  until ^he  has  rece ived ^a  permit  f 
ihr  hoard  of  health  or  its  agent  aforesaid  or  from  the  cleric  oi  tne  10  i 
where  the  body  is  buried,  ffo  such  permit  shall  be  issued  until  there  shall 
have  been  delivered  to  such  board,  agent  or  clerk,  as  th«  case  may  be, 
a satisfactory  written  statement  containing  the  facts  required  by  law  to  be 
returned^nd^ recorded,  which  shall  be  accompanied  in  case  of  an  original 
interment,  by  a satisfactory  certificate  of  the  attending  physician, 

L.  required  by  law  or  in  lieu  thereof  a certificate  as  hereinafter  provided. 
If  there  is  no  attending  physician,  or  if,  for  sufficient  reason^  his  certificate 
cannot  be  obtained  early  enough  for  the  purpose,  or  is  a 

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  c*rtlfi.c®*5 
nuired  of  the  attending  physician.  If  death  is  caused  by  violence,  the  medi- 
« examiner  , Si  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  af*"  such  removal 
a Dermit  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  oi  chapter  lorty-aix,  tuat  the  deceased  served  in  the  army, 
n£vy  or  marine  corps  of  tbe  United  States  in  any  war  in  which  it  has  been 
engaged,  such  recital  shall  appear  upon  the  permit.  The  bo?rd  °f 
or  its  agent,  upon  receipt  of  such  statement  and  certificate,  shall  forthwith 
countersign  it  and  transmit  it  to  the  clerk  of  the  town  for  rcgMstrat.om 
The  person  to  whom  the  permit  is  so  given  and  the  physician  certifying 
the  cause  of  death  shall  thereafter  furnish  for  rrg.stranon  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,  oec.  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  13  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  physician*  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. 

(S)  Medical  Examiners  will  investigate  and  certify  to  all  deaths  sup- 
posahly  due  to  injury.  These  include  not  only  deaths  caused  P1 

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  trom 
injury  or  infection  related  to  occupation,  the  sudden  deaths  of  persons  not 
j-  i- '.-.-A  .tiennon  onH  n^rsnns  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 


Suffolk 

(County) 


No 


W inthrop 

(City  or  Town) 

3r©4  Hil&and  Avenue-Fisher  Rest  Home 


(Comnumfoealtlj  of  JMaBBacIjusetts 
OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


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


Registered  No. 


2 


st. 


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


2 full  name  Jacob  Mendoza 

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

(a)  Residence.  No.  1510  North  Shore  Road, . 

(Usual  place  of  abode) 

Rest  Home  7 

Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  institution  years  months  days. 

(Before  death)  (Specify  whether) 


C PHYSICIAN- IMPORTANT 

J (Was  deceased  a 
J U.  S.  War  Veteran,  y. 

( if  so  specify  WAR) 

Revere , Mass. 

(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 


In  this  community 


days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


3 SEX 

male 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

white 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 

MARRIED 

WIDOWED 

or  divorced  Divorced 


18  DATE  OF 
DEATH 


(Mont|J»f 


O’, 

(Day) 


5a  If  married,  widowed  or  divorced 
HUSBAND  of  ./r&. 

( (Give  maidennsme  of_wjfe  in  full) 

\ Olive.  El  well 

(Husband's  name  in  full) 


19  r • HERpBY  CERTIFY,  That  I attended  deceased  from 

J-  4;  .......  19  V <P,  to  ^ dtl  ' 19  ^ y 


(or)  WIFE  of 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive 


years 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


I HEREBY  CERTIFY, 

I last  saw  h 1 alive  on  ./•l*-'*-?  " 

have  occurred  on  the  date  sfated  above,  at  ^7  df  " 
Immediate  cause^qf  death 


19 


8 

AGE 


78 


Years 


Months 


Days 


use_o 
' < 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hou  rs 


Minutes 


9 Occupation:  Cigar-Packer  (retired) 


Industry 
10  or  Business: 


Due  to 


Due  to 


death  is  said  to 

m ’ Duration 

IMPORTANT 


11  Social  Security  No. 


none 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City) 
(State  or  Country) 


London , 


fcnpland 


Other  conditions 

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 


Abraham  Mendoza 


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


London, 


England 


15  MAIDEN  NAME 

of  mother  Abagail  Lyons 


Ma^or  findings: 


operations 

Date  of 

Of  autopsy  1 ^ 

What  test  confirmed  diagnosis? 


IMPORTANT 

Physician 

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


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


London , 


England 


17 informant  .«Iudah  Mendoza  , 
(Address)  151Q  N. Shore  Road 


CRc,i#tfrifany  ) 

Revere. 


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

It  so,  specify 

(Signed) 

(Address'  Z-dS- — ■V’  Data 

21  TA15rsrmsen;  W«  _ io*.  kYxxxsk 

Place  of  Burial,  Cremation  oi  Removal.  VCity  or  Town) 

date  of^ burial  January  5j 


22  NAME  OF  SI  » ‘ -t" 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR  /d^^TtL  / ft  „ 

aooress  420  Harvard  Street 


Received  and  Filed 


Ml  134? 


Brookline. 

19 


(Registrar) 


Dr. Daniel  O'Brien-73  Washington  Ave-Winthrop 


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  bis  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  bis  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,  bis  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  oi  cnaptcr  lorty-sut,  tuat  tne  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  registiation  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. 


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OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
DIVISION  OF  VITAL.  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 

\ A . . 

St 


Registered  No. 


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

3 


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


2 FULL  NAME 

(If  deceased  is'a  married,  wi 


PHYSICIAN-  IMPORTANT 

(Was  deceased  a 
U.  S.  War  Veteran, 
if  so  specify  WAR) 


(a)  Residence.  No. 

(Usual  place  of  abode) 


Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  institution 

(Before  death)  (Specify  whether) 


years 


months 


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


days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 


5 SINGLE  tiyrite  the  word) 

MARRIED  ) • > 


W,D0WErDc 


or  DIVORC 


5a  If  married,  widowed  or  divorc 
HUSBAND  of  . _ 

(Give  maiJ?n  nam§ 

(or)  WIFE  of 

(Husband’sldame  i 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive 


A. 


years 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


8 

AGE 


Years  ^ 


Months 


jJL 


Days 


Usual 

9 Occupation: 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours 


Minutes 


11  Social  Security  No. 


Industry 
10  or  Business: 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City) 
(State  or  Country) 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 


14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
FATHER  (City) 
(State  or  Country; 


15  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 


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


( R2&ZZf.. 


(Address  i 


I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  a satisfactory  standard /certificate  of  death  w^S  filed 
,nre  BEFORE/ the  burial  or  transit  permit  was  issued: 


A AgTr)t  /f^Hoard  ofHed^ffP o^hUier) 


(Date  of  Issuer  of  P 


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/ 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


18  DATE  OF 
DEATH 


(Mo/th) 


</  / ?47. 

(Day)  / (Year) 


19~^  I HEREBY  CERTIFY 
I las/  saw  h-t-v~*^  alive  on 


have  occurred  on  the  date  st; 
Immediate  cause  of  death 
CftrE. 

Due  to 


That  I attended  deceased  from 

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3 , 19  y 7,  death  is  said  to 

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Due  to 


Other  conditions  i 

(Include  prsamlncy  within^)  months  of  death) 


Ma^or  findings: 


operations 


Date  of 


Of  autopsy  ^ 

What  test  confirmed  diagnosis^^XA*vJt<t^T.<^TAtVr^^>,i^f 


Duration 

IMPORTANT 


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3 


IMPORTANT 

Physician 


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

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20  Was  disease  or  injury  in  any  way  related  to  occupation  of  deceased?  1 
It  so,  specif  . . - n . 1 

— - . v-5-  , M.  D. 


Received  and  Filed 


JSS  f 1^4? 

(Registrar) 


I 

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.  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  ot  chapter  lony-iix,  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. 
'I  he  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  c^use  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. 


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OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 

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2 FULL  NAME - 

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


death  occujrred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 
stead  of  street  and  number) 

PHYSICIAN  - IMPORTANT 


(a)  Residence.  No.  . 

(Usual  place  of  abode) 


84  Cottage  Ave. 


Length  of  stay:  In  nnsoltal  Institution 

(Defore  death)  (Specify 


years 


months 


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PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 

male 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

white 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 
MARRIED 

WIDOWED  ..  . , 

or  divorced  Mamed 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced  _ . 

husband  of  Helen. .Lee....Bri.der. ■••■.... 

(Give  maiden  name  of  wife  in  full) 

(or)  WIFE  of  

(Husband's  name  In  full) 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive 


35" 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


8 Qn  p Ilf  less  than  1 day 

AGE  Yeara  9 Months  .A.W..  Days  l Hours Minutes 


Usual 

9 Occupation: 


Salesman 


Rubber 

ll  Social  Security  No.  ...0.I5=l6.rJ.675: 


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City)  M.j.d.He.tOn,.LlaS.Sw.7 

(State  or  country) 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 


Alpheus  Noyes, 


14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
FATHER  (Cltvl  

...  Bow.NHT. 

(State  or  country) 

IS  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 

Harriett  Coolidge  Walke 

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


Lowe 11, Mass. 


17 


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tiled  with  naa  BEFORE  the  bqrtal  or  transit  oarmlt  was  Issuads 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


18ddeaatteh0F Jmmw.A'im 

(Month)  (Day)  (Year) 


19  I HEREBY  CERTIF/, 

19.^6  Ao 

I last  saw  h...fefc*v...  allva  on 

have  occurred  on  tha  data  stated  above,  at 
Immediate  oauae  of  death 


That  I attended  deooased  fro 
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19. death  Is  said  to 
f m. 


* Duration 

IMPORTANT 


Due 


to 


Due  to.. 


.4-  4.&.,  

Other  condition. 


Othi 


Include  pregnane 


icy^Uh^p ^8^i^ootl 


t&s  of 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations . 


Data  of 


Of  autopsy 

What  test  confirmed  diagnosis? 


IMPORTANT 

Phyufctan 


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


If  to,  spsoify 

(Signed) 

(Address) 


kd Q . 


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


a ui  uunai,  viciua  tiuu  ur  rcuiutri, 

DATE  OF  BURIAL «.* 


19 


.47. 


22  NAME  of 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR 


J .E  .Henderson  Co.. 

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(Data  of  Inane  of  Qannlt) 


Raoalvod  and  Died. 


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(Rsfidrtr) 


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  tnc  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  temb  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 
s pepnit  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  or  cnapter  loriy-six,  luat  tne  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  bis  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- 
rtant,  so  that  the  relative  healthfulness  of  various  pursuits  can  be  known, 
ake  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 

DATE  OF  ENTERING  MILITARY  SERVICE 

DATE  OF  DISCHARGE  

RANK,  RATING  

ORGANIZATION  AND  OUTFIT  


SERVICE  NUMBER 


skeuM  k«  carefully  supplied.  ACI  should  b«  stated  EXACTLY.  PHYSICIANS  should  state  CAUSE  OF  DEATH  in  plain 
terms,  so  that  it  may  be  properly  classified.  Exact  statement  of  OCCUPATION  is  very  important.  See  instructions  an* 
extracts  from  the  laws  on  back  of  certificate. 

If  deemed  was  a U.  S.  War  Veteran,  Q.  L.  Chap.  46,  Section  10,  requlree  pliyelolans  to  Insert  a reoltal  to  that  effeot. 


RM  R-301  A 


rl 

2 

o 

la. 


Suffolk 

(Ceunty) 


®hp  (Euninuut&Jealtlf  of  .JHitsBacIjuscttB 

OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

DIVISION  OF  VITAL.  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


o Wintnrop 

“J  (City  or  Town) 

3 no st 


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

Registered  No 


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


m [ PHYSICIAN  • IMPORTANT 

2 FULL  NAME TllO.iPs-?:  J . VlcC^be J <Was  deceased  a 

(If  deceased  Is  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  alto  maiden  name  ) I “•  War  Veteran, 

I if  so  specify  WAR)  

(a)  Reeldenca.  No.  ...2Q....lMLUIL..Bjk.C....A./.l2.*..,. St  

(Usual  place  of  abode) 

Length  of  stay:  In  Hospital  "r  Institution 


(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 


(Before  death) 


(Specify  whether) 


yeara 


months 


dsys. 


In  this  oommunlty 


11 


■yrs. 


days. 


PERSONAL  and  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 

iA^ie 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

Wnite 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 
MARRIED 
WIDOWED 

or  DIVORCED  Miirri  SCL 


5,  If  married,  li  JJ 


HUSBAND 
(or)  WIFE  of 


(Give  maiden  name  of  wife  in  hill) 
( Husband's  name  In  full) 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive  ,yU years 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


8 

AGE 


60 


Yeere  Months 


Days 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours Minutes 


Usual  n 

9 Occupation  : v.U^.JTiX.. 


10  or*  Business:  U.f S ....  JIJ  U.§.t  .QjJttJjl . 


1 1 Social  Security  No. 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City)  £.0. SbOft 

(Slate  or  country)  M&fi3  . 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 


f GGuiiis  Me  Cube 


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


Ireland. 


15  MAIDEN  NAME 

of  mother  Briquet  Wall 


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


Ireland 


17 


Informant  ...< 

( Add  rets) 


b*9SA±T*f9!i^-r!,j£ 


Relation,  If  any 

v • Wile 

ft  liMiru^ 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


18  DATE  OF  T _ c 

oeath Jan. 6 194? 


(Month) 


(Day) 


(Year) 


19  I HEREBY  CERTIFY,  That  I attended  daoeased  from 
19..  Sfe-ra  •to U . . &. , 19  ftt. 

I last  saw  alive  on (fa  19  y/f  death  Is  said  to 

/ ■j  c ' 

have  occurred  on  the  data  stated  above,  at J..Q..ZZ  m. 

Immediate  oauaa  of  death 




Due  to  . 


IMPORTANT 


Oue  to  . 


Other  conditions.  ..  

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations . 


J&btJLa... 


Oats  of  . 


Of  autopsy  ...  U&xtiL* 

test  oonflrmed  dlagnoslaT 


What 


Duration 


IMPORTANT 

Phy*ic4ao 


Underline 
(he  cause  ro 
which  death 
should  be 
charged  sta- 
tistically. 


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

If  so,  spool  fy.  4..... ^ \ 


(Signed) 

(Address) 


21  yv  i n t nrpi; ' Wi  n .*■>  £*r 

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

DATE  OF  BURIAL JtjJ2  m S 


1^.7... 


FUNERAL  DIRECTOR  Ri-CJXird  H.  Will  1 6 

aooress  ...1:»?  WinUix-v^.  St-,  iifl.ttiiir.Qp.. 


Rooaivad  and  Iliad. .... 


•J-Ari-l-Q-t-94'f- 


( 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 
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.  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  chapter  torty-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). 


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- 
??rfant’  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 


4- 


H i.S 


2 < 

la. 

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3 No. 

0. 




(CltTgOr^wi^  s rae  ^ Hospital 


®lje  Cttotnntoitfapaltff  of  JHaseacIjuaetls 
OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

COPY  OF 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


BOSTON 

(City  or  town  making  return) 


Registered  No. 


130  A 

, O. 


st 


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


Genevieve  Minsky  f (if  u.  s. 

2 FULL  NAME ... War  Veteran, 

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

Hn-hr'hin^on  Winthrop  Mass. 

(a)  Resldenoe.  No St  

(Usual  place  of  abode) 


Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  Institution 

(Before  death)  (Specify  whether) 


years 


months 


32 


days. 


(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 

32 

In  this  oommunlty  yrs.  mos.''  days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


3 SEX 

F 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

w 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 

MARRIED  . . 

widowed  Married 

or  DIVORCED 


18 


DEAT H°F . 


(Month) 


(Day) 


(Year) 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  dlvoroed 
HUSBAND  of  

(Give  maiden  ni 

(or)  WIFE  of  — 

(Husband’s  name  in  full) 


19  I HEREBY  CERTIFY,  That  I attended  deoeased  f/otn 

.,  19... 46...,  to ... , 19.3.Z.. 


..D.ec-w....5.. 


in  full) 


I last  saw  h ^.T..  alive  on 


19  ... death  is  said  to 


have  ooourred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at .6.i.l.QA^. 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  If  alive 


1ST 


years 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


Immediate  oause  of  death 

...failure.. 


AGE....*..' Years. 


27 


Months.. 


I If  less  than  1 day 
..Days  I Hours Minutes 


Usual 

9 Ocoupation: 


Housewife 


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


11  Sooial  Seourity  No. 


None 

None 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City) 
(State  or  country) 


Boston  Mass. 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 

David  Plotnick 

14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 

Russia 

FATHER  fCitvl  

(State  or  country) 

15  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 

Mary  Rosenberg 

16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
MOTHER  fCitvl  

Russ ia 

(State  or  country) 

17 


Informant... 

(Address) 


„ , , , Relation,  if  any 

Husband ...  ( .) 


«r 


A TRUE  COPY. 
ATTEST:  

(R 

DATE  FILED  ^.. 


erWhijwhere  death  occurred) 

Jan*8...„ 19  4.7. 


Due  to.. 


Rheumatic  heart  disease 


Due  to.. 


Other  conditions 

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations  . 


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

No 

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

If  so,  speolfy  

(Signed) L WQ.l5.ky  ... m n 

l“b  io  1 1 


Date  of 

Of  autopsy  

What  test  oonfirmed  diagnosis?.. 


Duration 

T-2  "Mo  S e 


"6"  Yrs 


Physician 


(Address)  3.30...  B.I?Q&lcl All.©.... Date 

21  place  of  burial,  Qnichtv  Cem-Mel rose  Mass 

CREMATION  OR  REMOVAC ?. 

Jags M. 


(City  or  Town) 

DATE  OF  BURIAL  19 


H J Torf 


22  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR  ^ 

address  Chelsea  Ma.ss  ( 


Reoelved  and  filed 


JAN2"2"t^-4"7- — — 

(Registrar  of  City  or  Town  where  deceased  resided) 


19 


. 


i •- 


5RM  R-301  A 


* O 


a Z 


•or  "own jn 


(Elir  GT  u ni  mint  lu  calif]  of  .JNassadinsrtts 

OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 





2 FULL  NAME 


To  b«  filed  for  burial  permit 
with  Board  of  Health 
or  ita  Agent. 

•--/ 

Registered  No A.  ... 


(If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution. 
Rive  its  NAMF  instead  of  street  and  number) 


L s,. .. 

place  of  abode)  /?  / ' * )l—0  (If  nonresident,  ifive  city  or 


or  divorced  woman,  pive  alao  maiden  name.) 


r PHYSICIAN  - IMPORTANT 

J (Was  deceased  a 

"S  u.  s. 


War  Veteran, 
pecify  WAR) 


..lUr 


(a)  Residence, 

(Usual 


Length  of  stay:  In  nnsoltal  or  Institution 

(Before  death)  f Specify 


town  and  State) 


years 


months 


days. 


In  this  community 


ether) 


yrs. 


days. 


PERSONAL  ANO  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 


■i^r  t ; 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

ioMxfc. 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word], 
MARRIED 
WIDOWED 
or  DIVORCED  ' 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced 

HUSBAND  of  

(Cive  maiden  name  of  wife  in  full) 

(or)  WIFE  of  

(Husband's  name  In  hill) 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


Years 


Months  Days 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours  Minutes 


Usual 

9 Occupation; 


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


K “jj  . $ 

U • . 

<i,i5  S 

j-oli  f- 

■ L) 

OJ  3 s j 

z-SjS  6 

Q-  U~-  . 

<o».°  5 

«.<  ‘A  i 

oa  > 


11  Social  Security  No. 


fib**# 


12  BIRTHPLACE 
(Slate  or  count 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 


14  BIRTHPLACE  of 
FATHER  (Cily)  . 

(State  or  country) 

15  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 

16  BIRTHPLACE  OF  f 

MOTHER  (Cily)  

(State  or  country) 


I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  a satisfactory  standard  oertlfloata  of  death  was 
Hied  with  me  BEFORE  tha  burial  or  transit  oermlt  was  Issued  i 



, (alRwatare  of  Agaat  »<  Board  of  Health  nr  other) 

/*/yZ 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


Id 


DEATH0!! ff'.  /.S'Y.. 

( (Month)  (Day  y (Year) 


(Official  Designation) 


( Date  of  IsaVe  of  permit) 


19  I HEREBY  CERTIFY,  That  I attended  deoeased  from 

19 , 4o , 19 

I last  taw  h alive  on , 19  , death  Is  said  to 

have  occurred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at .....  m. 

Duration 

mmedlata  cause  of  death 

' IMPORTANT 


Due  to 


Due  to  . 


Other  conditions 

t Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations 


Of  autoDsy  

What  test  oonflrmed  diagnosis? 


Data  of 


IMPORTANT 

Physician 


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


20  Was  disease  or  injury  in  or,y  way  related  to  oooupatlon  of  deerrsnd?  ..  

If  so,  tpaoify.../3. — 0, 

(Signed) ^ M.  0. 

( Address)  Oita  19 


^B^Crem 


22  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR 

ADDRESS  


Reoelved  and  died 


/]  (Citf  or  1 own ) 

(X <K*W ■ ■■/■/. 


v 


19 


( Registrar) 


EXTRACT8  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  bis  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.  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  cnapter  toriy-six,  tuat  tne  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 

DATE  OF  ENTERING  MILITARY  SERVICE 

DATE  OF  DISCHARGE  

RANK,  RATING  

ORGANIZATION  AND  OUTFIT  


SERVICE  NUMBER 


WRITE  PLAINLY,  WITH  UNFADING  BLACK  INK  - THIS  IS  A PERMANENT  RECORD 

Coplea  of  returns  of  deaths  recorded  during  the  previous  month  which  occurred  in  your  city  or  town  in  caae  the  deceased 
resided  in  another  city  or  town  at  the  time  of  death  ahouid  be  made  forthwith  and  transmitted  on  Form  R-302  to  the  clerk 
of  the  city  or  town  in  which  the  deceased  resided.  (See  Chap.  46,  Sec.  12,  0.  L.) 


ORM  R-302 


25 




(County) 

o 


(City  or  Town) 


(EtmtmpitfnpaHfy  of  iWTaseacfpisetts 

OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY  

(City  or  town  making  return) 


2 FULL  NAME. 

(If  deceased  is  a m 

(a)  Resldenoe.  No.  JL.L- 
(Usual  place  of  abode) 

Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  Institution 

(Before  death)  (Specify  whether) 


OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

COPY  OF 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


— - - --  - ....  Registered  No 

y) Jjtj  sfS  . Ad-iVo  Un  J Vy  _.  S (If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 

St.  ( give  it8  name  instead  of  street  and  number) 


widowed  or- divorced 


woman,  give  also  maiden  name.)  f v ' , 

5, sk 


(If  u.  s. 

War  Veteran, 
Jfy  WAR) 


years  months  / days. 


(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 

In  this  community  yrs.  mos.  days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 

3 SEX  I 4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

5 SINGLE,  (write  the  word) 

MARRIED^  . 

Wl  DOWE/7^LrTXt<^^ 

or  DIVORCED 

IS  DATE  OF 
DEATH 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divoroed 
HUSBAND  of  

(or)  wife  of 

(Husband's  name  in  futy) 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  If  allv 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  faot  here. 


AG 


Years Months  . 


Days 


If  less  than  X day 
Hours Minutes 


Usual 

9 Occupation: 


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


11  Sooial  Seourity  No. 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City) 
(State  or  country) 


13  NAME  Of 

FATHE^U-Q^ 

14  birthplace  or 

FATHER  (City)  .. 

(State  or  country) 

15  MAIDEN  NAME  . n 

OF  “0 

16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
MOTHER  (City)  .. 

(State  or  country) 

A TRUE  COPY. 
ATTEST:  

DATE  FILED  .. 


(Registrar  of  city  or  tbwn  where  death  occurred) 

L 


19 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


* (Year) 


1 9/Ji  HEREBY  1C  E R T.I.F  Y , That  I attended  deoeased  from 

19^4.  to .\j IS^Z 

I last  saw  h^ri^?/...alive  on 19  ,.^/death  Is  said  to 

have  ooourred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at  ... 


Immediate 


, of  death .... 


Due  to  . 


Other  conditions 

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations.. 


Date  of  . 


Duration 


Physician 

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

,'Xo. 


Of  autopsy  

What  test  oonflrmed  diagnosis  3^. 

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

T Cemetery)  (City  or  Towp)^/^. 

DATE  OF  BURIAL  !9  ^ 


21  PLACE  OF 
CREMATION 


22  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRECp 

ADDRESS 


4 




Reoelved  and  filed 19 

EE.a.2., j.Q.4.7 

(Registrar  of  City  or  Town  where  Tleceased  resided) 


WRITE  PLAINLY,  WITH  UNFADING  BLACK  INK  - THIS  IS  A PERMANENT  RECORD 

Coplea  of  returns  of  deatha  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-802  to  the  clerk 
of  the  city  or  town  in  which  the  deceased  resided.  (See  Ohap.  46,  Sec.  12,  0.  L.) 


ORM  R-302 


x } SUFFOLK 

a 


(City  or  Town) 


dtmtmtmfnealtlj  of  JRaseacfyuaetis 
OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

COPY  OF 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


BOSTON 

(City  or  town  making  return) 


Registered  No. 


....2.62.... 9 


No. 


P,eth  Israel  ^OSTDital  c.  J (H  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 

»•■«*■* SL  < give  itg  NAme  instead  of  street  and  number) 

Mrs  Rae  Elf  man  fotu.  s 

2 FULL  NAME 4 War  Veteran, 

(If  deceased  is  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.)  I speolfy  WAR)  f.ASr. 

20  Beach st Winthroff 

(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 


(a)  Resldenoe.  No. 

(Usual  place  of  abode) 

Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  Institution. ll.Q.S.pi.ti.S.1 
(Before  death)  (Specify  whether) 


years 


months 


177 


days. 


In  this  oommunlty 


yrs. 


,177 


days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 

Female 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

White 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 

MARRIED  . •, 

widowed  I.  armed 

or  DIVORCED 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divoroed 
HUSBAND  of  


<«>  wife  louffil'  °?l*f’SVf1  ’*11'  **  '“u> 

(Husband’s  name  in  full) 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive  XL/. years 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


ddeattehof Ja.nu.ar.x....9.....19.ta..'..., 

(Month)  (Day)  * (Year) 


19  I HEREBY  CERTIFY,  That  I attended  deoeased  from 

.Q.p.t 1.5 - , 19.4-6..,  to ,J.a.n....9. , i9.i4-7- 

I last  saw  h....er alive  on J.ELn....^. , 19...-...,  death  It  said  to 

have  ooourred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at...  l.Q.z.JQP. ...m.  1 

Immediate  oause  of  death 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  faot  here. 


AGE.I4.6....  Years Months 


Days 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours Minutes 


Usual 

9 Occupation: 


Rous  ewife 


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


11  Soolal  Seourity  No. dOOG 

12  BIRTHPLACE  (City)  ...t'Q.nt.E.ej&l... 

(State  or  country)  Canada 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 

Louis  Greenfield 

14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
FATHER  ( Citvl  ... 

(State  or  country) 

Russia 

15  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 

Anna  Markowitz 

16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 

MOTHER  (Citvl  

(State  or  country) 

Russia 

Informant  . ...Louis Elfma.n , ( .MMM 

(Address)  20  Beach  Rq  Winfchrop 

A TRUE  COPY^*W  . C^Oi^  _ . ' _ 

ATTEST:  


*-) 


_ city  or  town  where  death  occurred) 

DATE  FILED  L..J&n....X.3.~..19U-7 19.. 


Pemphigus 

Due  to 


Due  to- 


other conditions 

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations.. 


Date  of . 


Physician 

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

What  test  oonflrmed  diaflnosisfAll.i.O.pSU. 

20  Was  disease  or  Injury  in  any  way  related  to  oooupatlon  of  deoeased?  L.Q.. 
If  so,  speolfy 

(Signed) .1:  'e.ur.i.c.a....Ka.ufmn m.  d. 

(Address)  ...B.....X...H Data.  1/9 19  ...lljL 


Of  autopsy  ,...A?....$.fe.Q.Y.@.. 


Duration 


"7lli?s 


21  PLACE  OF  BURIAL,  -r  T 

CREMATION  OR  REMOVAL  Tif ai\0.t.h I-S-Tael 


DATE  OF  BURIAL 


(Cemetery)  £ g re  &^wn) 

Jan....lL I.94.7 19 


22  NAME  OF  r.  ^ , 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR  ...0.11  J F -Solf 

address Brookline... 


Reoeived  and  filed 


2:21311. 


19 


(Registrar  of  City  or  Town  where  deceased  resided) 


■ 


WRITE  PLAINLY,  WITH  UNFADING  BLACK  INK  - THIS  IS  A PERMANENT  RECORD 

Copies  of  returns  of  deaths  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-802  to  the  clerk 
of  the  city  or  town  iD  which  the  deceased  resided.  (See  Chap.  40,  Sec.  12,  Q.  L.) 


ORM  R-302 


V 


* WORCESTER 

2 (County) 

| RUTLAND 

w 
o 

3 

Q. 


No. 


(City  orTpwn)tland  state  Sanatorium 


®I|e  CttmtirannfneaHIj  of  JHasearfp»etis 
OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

COPY  OF 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


RUTLAND 

(City  or  town  making  return) 


Registered  No. 


.0 


SL 


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


2 FULL 


NAME J.Qfe?L...  Jo  S .©pL... en / War^Veteran, 

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

90  Sagamore  Ave  . ..  v;  in  t hr  op.  Mass  . 

(■)  Residence.  No S SL  

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

Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  Instltu^iftiQ.^.tf.Q.iP.A.VI??-  4 years  9 months  13  days.  In  this  community  4 yrs.  9 mos.  13  days. 

(Before  death)  (Specify  whether) 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 

. i.al  e 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

Nhite 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 
MARRIED  Mo-p-p-?  far) 
WIDOWED  1'ta.X  i.  -L«U 
or  DIVORCED 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  dlvoroed  MaDiarOfc  GreaVeS 

HUSBAND  of  h?. 

(Give  maiden  name  of  wife  in  full) 

(or)  WIFE  of  

(Husband’s  name  in  full) 

6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  If  alive  9.5 years 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  faot  here. 


AGC..R.9. Years  A. Months 


Days 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours Minutes 


18  DATE  OF 
DEATH  


January  9,  1947 

( Month) (Day) (Tear)” 


j'an  .9 

have  ooourred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at  .3..:..1.5.....A,..M.  *n 


last  saw  h lil alive  on 4.an„*  ^ , 19... ^7 death  Is  said  to 


Immediate  cause  of  death 

Pulmonary  tMbeilGulo s is 


9 Oooupatlon : Shipper 


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


Standard  Oil  Co. 


11  Soolal  Security  No. R.Q.h-.® 

12  BIRTHPLACE  (City)  ....h.OAUUl'y 


(State  or  country) 


Mass. 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 


Thomas  Patten 


14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 

FATHER  (City)  

(State  or  country)  Ireland 


15  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 


Nor ah  McCarthy 


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


Ireland 


17 


Informant? San.  Re  COrdS  / Relation,  If  any 

(Address)  . \ut  1 and , Mass", ^ * 


I A TRUE  COPY.  '-T  /),  ^ 

| ATTEST:  

(Registrar  of  city^  or  town,  wjbcrc^ 

I DATE  FILED  Z. !] 19 


rred) 


Due  to.. 


Due  to  . 


Other  conditions 

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations  . 


Date  of 

Of  autopsy 

What  test  oonfirmed  diagnosis? 

in  any  wa 

Unkn 


Duration 

13  year; 


Physician 

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


20  Was  disease  or  injury  in  any  way  related  to  oooupatlon  of  deoeased? 
if  so.  specify unknown. 


(Signed)..,. ^a^I^o  cHe  — 

( Address) U..V.l..s(H.d.....R.t..a.t..e T.fcih.*  Datel/7.9 19.4Z... 


Mthenedict , Boston, Mass 


21  PLACE  OF  BURIAL, 

CREMATION  OR  REMOVAL 

or  Town) 

DATE  OF  BURIAL  19 


22  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR 

ADDRESS 


Frank  H. Miles  Co. 
Jeff  ers  on.  Miiss. 


.1 19 

F t&l 

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Reoelved  and  filed 

(Registrar  of  City  or  Town  where  deceased  resided) 


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®he  (Gtnutmmfbraltlf  of  JHassaclpjsetts 

OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

COPY  OF 

MEDICAL  EXAMINER’S 
CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 




(City  or  town  making  return) 

jt  n 

Registered  No .'3....1.— 


< 

_i 

^0. 


2 FULL  NAME 


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


(If  deceased  is  a married, 

Ksr. 


../s?..:....!??? 


widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.) 

St. 


(a)  Resldenoe.  No. 

(Usual  place  of  abode) 

Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  Institution years  / months  -3  days. 

(Before  death)  (Specify  whether)  


(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 

In  this  community  yrs.  mos.  days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced 
HUSBAND  of 


(or)  WIFE 


of 

(Husband’s  name  in  full) 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  If  alive  years 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


8 

AGE 


XL- 


Years Months.. 


Days 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours Minutes 


Usual 

9 Oocupatlon: 


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


11  Sooial  Security  No. 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City) 


13  NAME  OF  „ 
FATHER  Qi 

14  BIRTHPLACE 
FATHER  (Ci 
(State  or  cour 

OF 

ty)  ^ .7“..  _ 

try)  f 

15  MAIDEN  NAM 
OF  MOTHER 

16  8IRTHPLACE 
MOTHER  (Ci 

(State  or  cour 

17 


I n f o r m a n . . . 

(Address) 


Relation,  if  any 


^yy  - 


A TRUE  COPY. 
ATTEST: 

DATE  FILED 




lown  where  death  occurred) 


19 


.4.1 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


IS  DATE  OF 
DEATH 


//  /9  4 2 

(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.) 


20  Aooldent,  sulolde,  orOhomlolde  (specify).  

Date  of  ooourrenoe !(?. 19 ....tfrlj. 

Where  did  / /TJ/ 

Injury  ocour?  

(City  or  town  and  State) 

Did  Injury  ooour  In  or  about  the  home?  qn_farai,  In  Industrial  plaog.  or  In 
publio  plao 

(Specify  type  of  place) 


SgT  iJltM.  ..d?^ 

” * °*  Ouo  CL*btr~u-c— 


Nature 

Injury 


While  at  work? Was  there  an  autopsy?. 


21  Was  disease  or  Injury  In  any  way  related  to  oooupatlon  of  deoeased? 

If  so,  speolfy 

(Signed) r..Y?:. M.  D. 

( Address) 'v*-wo«7Ar;.«..frA<^*. i..|r.b«MS»7..y  ......... 

22  

Place  of  Burial,  Cremation  or  RemovaL (City  or  Town) 

DATE  OF  BURIAL  IS 19' 


23  NAME  OF  \J C7  If)  ' kV!  fit 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR 

ADDRESS  "St.  (/.... 


RoCOl  V0d  find  fl lod . ..........  ■R,m..r^...ia.iM rn"'f"T * •••••••••••••• 

FEBT [947 

(Registrar  of  City  or  Town  where  deceased  resided) 


19. 


. 


WRITE  PLAINLY,  WITH  UNFADING  BLACK  INK— THIS  IS  A PERMANENT  RECORD.  Every  item  of 
information  should  be  carefully  supplied.  AGE  should  be  stated  EXACTLY.  PHYSICIANS  should  state 
CAUSE  OF  DEATH  in  plain  terms,  so  that  it  may  be  properly  classified.  Exact  statement  of  OCCUPATION 
is  very  important.  See  instructions  and  extracts  from  the  laws  on  back  of  certificate. 


RM  R-3Q1  A 


3 8EJC  ^ 4 COLOR  OR  RACE 


\/ 


®fje  ©ammonmealtlj  nf  HHammrljuHf  Its 
OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 
CERTIFICATE 


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


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

*...St.  I give  its  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 


2 FULL  N 


(a)  Residence 

(Usual  place  of  abode' 


(If  U.  S. 

War  Veteran, 
specify  WAR).. 


Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  institution  ..r^U 

(Specify  whether) 

PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  state) 

In  this  community  yrg.  mos.  days. 


S SINGLE  (write  the  word) 
MARRIED  P - y> 
WIDOWED— .^3-^"  c 
or  divoRoed  y 


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 


IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


3? 


8 I If  less  than  1 day 

AGE Years Months Days| Hours Minutes 


Usual 
^ 9 Occupation:. 

Industry 


I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  a satisfactory  standard  certificate  of  death 
was^ijCd  witbijffe  BEFORE  ^tp^urij^pV  tr^rfyiit  permit  was  issued: 


of  Board  of  Health  or  other) 

JjjJ&L 

of  Issue  el  Permit/  ' 


(Date  < 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


18  DATE  OF 
DEATH 


)F 

(Month)  (Day)  (Year) 


19  I/HEREBY  CERTIFY,  That  I attended  deceased  from 

M.. , to 19..£.% 

1 fast  saw  h^t.L. alive  on 19  .^/ death  is  said  to 

have  occurred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at m. ' 

Immediate  cause  of  death. 




Due  to 


Due  to.. 


Other  conditions 

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings: 

Of  operations 


Of  autopsy 

What  test  confirmed  diagnosis?. 


..Date  of... 


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

If  so,  specify yCZ/. n^^T.r. —/ 


(Signed).. 


IMPOITANT 

PHYSICIAN 

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


Racaivad  and  filed 


JMZZiS'fJ (Registrar) 


SA/st*/,  rro/ 


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, 
definded  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  receiv- 
ing 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  in- 
sufficient, a physician  who  is  a member  of  the  board  of  health,  or  em- 
ployed by  it  or  by  the  selectmen  for  the  purpose,  shall  upon  application 
make  the  certificate  required  of  the  attending  physician.  If  death  is  caused 
by  violence,  the  medical  examiner  shall  make  such  cer  ificate.  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  re- 
moval 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  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  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  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 
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  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 
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  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,  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 


should  bo  carefully  supplied.  ACK  should  bo  stated  EXACTLY.  PHYSICIANS  should  state  CAUSE  OF  DEATH  in  plain 
terms,  so  that  it  may  bo  properly  classified.  Exact  statement  of  OCCUPATION  is  very  important.  See  instructions  end 
extracts  from  the  laws  on  back  of  certificate. 

If  deceased  was  a U.  S.  War  Vataran,  Q.  L.  Chap.  46.  Seotlon  10,  requires  phyelolans  to  Insert  a reoltal  to  that  affaot. 

100  m- (g)- 1 -4V 1 55 10 


M R-301 


®hr  (ffuruntmtincaltlj  of  ,J{ta9Bacl)usrttB 

OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 


STANOARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


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

1 ** 


Registered  No ii  t i 


,,  I (If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 
al*Vgr9e  its  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 


PHYSICIAN  - IMPORTANT 


2 FULL  NAME 


(Was  deceased  a 
U.  S.  War  Veteran, 
if  so  specify  WAR)  . 


(a)  Residence.  No. 

(Usual  place  of''abode) 


Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  nr  Institution 

(Before  death)  (Specify  whether) 


(If  nonresident,  give  dry  or  town  and  State) 

In  this  community  ^^^yrs.  mon.  days. 


PERSONAL  AND  statistical  PARTICULARS 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced 

HUSBAND  of  .rf. ^ ........ 

//  . (Oiye  maiden  name  of  wife  In  full ) 

(or)  WIFE  of  

f HiTsDand's'naine  (n  full) 


6 Age  of  husbend 


/ « 

(pr  wife  if  alivt 


l 


1 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


6 


AGE  °.Y  Year* 


Mentha 


Usual 

9 Occupation 


77SZ 


Days 


If  lass  than  1 day 
Hours Mlnutas 


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


11  Social  Seourity  No. 


12  BIRTHPLACE  ICity) 
( Slate  or  country) 


I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  a satisfactory  standard  oartlfloate  of  death  was 
£F9RE  the  burial  *r  transit  permit  was  Issued i 


Agent  •(  B<  Mrd  of  HealtKinr  other) 


(OAetat  Designation) 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


19  I HEREBY  CERTIFY,  That  I attended  deosased  from 
Ahu/. 1.$ 19..%....,  4b...j£8d*t , 19^.... 

I last  saw  hj&r. allva  on , 19 death  Is  said  to 

have  occurred  on  the  dato  stated  above,  at ^..L.  ‘is-.fr.  m. 

Immedlato  cause  of  death 

A 


Due  to 


Other  condltlona 

( Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations  . 


Data  of. 


Of  autopjy 

What  test  oonflrmed  diagnosis?  . 


Duration 


IMPORTANT 

•/*—*•*- 
A..<H 4!tUV&, 


IMPORTANT 

PhysfvHan 


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


20  Was  disease  or  injury  in  ony  way  related  to  occupation  of  deosased?  (7T-0. 
If  so,  spaolfy .^ry. 


M.  0. 


C..  . Date  ...  19 j.J.. 


(Bate  of  la 


- 


City  or  Town) 

« 

ADDRESS  

IZ..SSI. 


22  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR 


Rapaived  and  bled 


(Registrar) 


- A 


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.  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  secti  >a  ten  oi  chapter  torty-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). 


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  orbits  agent  appointed  to 
issue  such  permits,  or  if  there  is  no  such  board,  front  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 

DATE  OF  ENTERING  MILITARY  SERVICE 

DATE  OF  DISCHARGE 

RANK,  RATING  

ORGANIZATION  AND  OUTFIT  


SERVICE  NUMBER 


100m-(g)-l"tvmi0 


-5  ouffolk. 


ft-  ouxa  VAn.« _ 

uJ  (County) 

M o ...lin.tJa.r_op..* .... 


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


Registered  No ..C...tA 


2 FULL  NAME 


(Elif  (Eumnumfncaltlf  of  4Wassacl|HsrttB 

OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 

(City  or  Town) 

u 125  01  iff  Avenue  •>  f<If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 

No /*>•«.« "‘•(give  jtJ  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number? 

. „ , „ ^ . . PHYSICIAN  - IMPORTANT 

Adel  la  M0ntaiT9  J (Was  deceased  a 

War  Veteran,  vs 
specify  WAR).....i^.r 


(If  deceased  Is  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.) 
(a)  Residence.  No.  . 12..5 G_l. Jt.f  f .. SL  ... 


r PHY 

J (Was 

i U.  S. 

I if  so  s 


(Usual  place  of  abode) 

Length  of  stay:  In  hnsolta*  or  Institution  ,R..e.S..fc Jl.0.flie4  years 


months 


day9. 


(Before  death) 


(Specify  whether) 


(tf  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 

In  this  oommunlty  ^5  T™*  mos.  days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


3 SEX 


femald 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

white 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 
MARRIED 
WIDOWED 


18  DATE  OF  _ n r- 

oeath J.anuary 15 

(Montn)  (Day) 


or 


□OWED  c«  4 A 

DIVORCED  OJ.Ilg.LW 


.1.94.7 

(Year) 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced 

HUSBAND  of  ........ 

(Give  meiden  name  of  wife  In  hill) 

(or)  WIFE  of  

(Husband's  name  In  full) 


That  I attended  deoeased  from 

■4*4 19^ 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive  years 


19  I HEREBY  CERTIFY 

X 19.. 4o  . 

I last  saw  h .'AA'  alive  on.^*raa-S!Sflt /..*/  , 19.5^  death  Is  said  to 

have  occurred  on  the  date  stned  above,  at ° ...Q- 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


AGE  93 


Yeart 


2, 


Mentha 


.14 


Days 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours Minutes 


Immediate  cause  of  death.. 




9 Occuoatlon:  X.S.t.lT.  S.dL.. 


Due  to 


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


Due  to  . 


11  Social  Seourity  No. 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City) 
( Slate  or  country) 


nO.n.e. 

We 


Other  condltlona.. 

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 mouths  of  death) 


13  NAME  OF 

father  Alexander  Montaire 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations 


14  BIRTHPLACE  of 

FATHER  (City)  

(State  or  country) 

....'.Valdoboro 

Maine. 

15  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 

unable  to  obtain 

Of  autopsy.. 

What  test  confirmed  diagnosis?  C^vvy'*. 


Duration 

IMPCffiTANT  ' 


IMPORTANT 

Physician 


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


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


Maine 


17 


Informan 
( Addre*«> 


e....Boy.al., 

mao  ave 


any 


20  Was  disease  or  injury  in  any  way  related  to  oooupetlon  of  deoeased  ? lh^O 

If  eo,  epeoify__ *.f. a.. 

t Signed . M.  D. 

(Address)  TO  Date  ‘Jj  6t 19  kf.-'J . 

21  Woodlawn o4me.t  ery. .. j;var  e t ti.a  ss../ 

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

date  of  burial. January  17,1.947 


in/hrop  St 7/ i nth r op' 


19... 


I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  a satisfactory  'standard  oerllflo/te  of  death 
Hied  a*l)h  ms  BEFORE  the  burial aer  transit  permit  was  Issued: 



/ 7 WSIgnatare  of  Af«ht  e(  Boaril  of  HealUrvir  Other) 

JjLl 

(OfBctal  Designation)  J J (Date  of  Jnoue  of  Pi 


22  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR 

.174... Wl 


AOORESS 


Reoelved  and  Iliad 


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(Registrar) 


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EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAWS  OF  THE 
COMMONWEALTH  OF  MASSACHUSETTS 
SOVERNING  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.  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  or  chapter  tony-six,  tnat  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- 
ortant,  so  that  the  relative  healthfulness  of  various  pursuits  can  be  known, 
fake  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 

DATE  OF  ENTERING  MILITARY  SERVICE 

DATE  OF  DISCHARGE  

RANK,  RATING  ______________ _________________ 

ORGANIZATION  AND  OUTFIT  


SERVICE  NUMBER 


i- (b) -6-44- 14607 


2 FULL  NAME. 


2 (Coui 


ounty) 


®I je  Crmtmmtfoealtlj  of  JfHaseadfusetts 
OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

COPY  OF 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 

n 




(City  or  town  making  return) 


Registered  No. 





St. 


!(If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 
1 


give  its  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 


(If  deceased  is  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.) 
(a)  Resldenoe.  No.  ...  1JMA...A. u SL 


(Usual  place  of  abode) 


Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  Institution 

(Before  death)  (Specify  whether) 


days. 


(If  nonresident,  give  city  dr  town  and  State) 

In  this  oommunlty  yrs.  mos.  days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


3 SEX 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE|  5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 
MARRIED 


r°?V;0ERDCED  ' ^ - 


IS  DATE  OF 
DEATH  


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  If  alive  

7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  faot  here. 

5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  dlvoroed 
HUSBAND  of  

(or)  WIFE  of 

(Husband's  name  in  full) 


19 


R E B 


A'... . — d 

' (Month)  fj  (Day) 


IS. 


(Year) 


nanie^bf  wife  in  full) 


m CERTIFY,  That  I attended  deoeased  from 

, 19^..^,  to ..SjgZko*.,. A 51.. , 19::..:%.. 

I last  saw  h._^t^<allve  on....)i^Cl rZiSKt.i).. \9S..t  death  Is  said  to 

have  ooourred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at ..//:..?rr.!i...j!?.:..... 


Remediate  oause  of  di 


AGE..I 


'....Years Months.. 


Days 


Usual 

9 Occupation: 


If  less  than  1 day 

..Hours Minutes 


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


11  Sooial  Security  No. 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City)  ./Q.../Z //.. 

(State  or  country) 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 


14  BIRTHPLACE 
FATHER  (C 
(State  or  country) 


15  MAIDEN  NAME  . 

°FM° ZU- 


16  BIRTHPLACE  ^ s s? 

MOTHER 

(State  or  country) 


.'Relation,  if  any 


(Address)  SZA ■>_  — CZ 


A TRUE  COPY 
ATTEST: 


/f 

(Registrar  of  city  or  town  where  death  occurred) 
DATE  FILED  ..  


19 


Due  to  . 


Other  conditions 

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations  . 


Date  of  . 


Of  autopsy 


Duration 


...^...vfotjSTD  • 




Physician 


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


What  test  oonflrmed  diagnosis?  

20  Was  disease  or  Injury  In  any  wi  y related  to  oooupatlon  of  deoeased? dJ.j 


21  PLACE  OF  BURIAL, 

CREMATION  OR  REMOV, 


(Cemetery) 


DATE  OF  BURIAL 


s.c. 


(City  or  Town) 

19..^$ 


22  NAME  OF  , . 

FUNERAL  DIRECT(lB-'w^Y~Art2<?Tfc<5fcr.., 


fr 


ADDRESS  


Received  and  filed  7 J.^. 

(Iiegiatrar  of  City  or  Town  where  deceased  resided) 


19 


WRITE  PLAINLY,  WITH  UNFADING  BLACK  INK  - THIS  IS  A PERMANENT  RECORD 

Copies  of  returns  of  deaths  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-802  to  the  clerk 
of  the  city  or  town  in  which  the  deceased  resided.  (See  Chap.  48,  Sec.  12,  Q.  L.) 


3RM  R-302 


.Suffolk 

(County) 


tCffe  fflotttmnnfnraltfy  of  JtTaseadjuaetls 
OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

COPY  OF 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


Boston 

(City  or  town  making  return) 


570  $ 

Registered  No _....., JJjtJ.... 


2 

O 

o B.Q.s.t.Q.n. 

u (City  or  Town)  , 

< no  Mass. General  Hospital  ?1  J (If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 

-i  N0 “• ) give  its  NAME  Instead  of  street  and  number) 

- Q.  i 

Nellie  Belcher  f (if  u.  s. 

2 FULL  NAME , ■<  War  Veteran, 

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

No.  77  Cottage  Ave»  st  Winthrcfr  Mass« 

(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 

Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  Institution years  months  2 days.  In  this  oommunlty  yrs.  mos.  2 

(Before  death)  (Specify  whether) 


(a)  Residence, 

(Usual  place  of  abode) 


days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 

F 


4 COLOR  OR  RACEl 

w I 


5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 

widowed  Widowed 

or  DIVORCED 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


18 


SS tEh0F Jan/l7/47 

(Month)  (Day) 


(Tear) 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divoroed 

HUSBAND  of  

(or)  WIFE  of  

(Husband’s  name  in  full) 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  If  alive  years 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  faot  here. 


IM. 


19  I HEREBY  CERTIFY,  . , 

vlan/lS/47. , 19 , to  . Jan/17/47..,  ~ 

I last  saw  h....®.T alive  on .„.&d/17/' 4? , death  is  said  to 

have  ooourred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at ll.j2.0AMm. 


Thai 


attended  deoeased  from 
19.. 


Immediate  oause  of  death 

.Carcinoma  ..of.. ..gall... blft.d.dg.r.. 


Years. Months Days  I Hours .Minutes  | Due  to  Rupture  Olf  gal  1 bladder 


9 Occupation:  


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


Housework 


11  Sooial  Security  No. Non® 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City)  Nova..  S-COtla 

(State  or  country) 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 

John 

Refuse 

14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 

FATHER  (Citv)  

Nova 

Scotia 

(State  or  country) 

15  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 

Cannot  be  learned 

16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
MOTHER  ( Citv) 

Nova 

Scotia 

(State  or  country) 

17(Addn*") Mrs  ^ ..Rcl6!rtLn5dHJai^  it^Te 


Duo  to.. 


PeHton^ 


other  condition.  Hypertensive  ...heart  diseas^ 

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings:  Kfrtn* 
Of  operations  .”?.'.1." 


Date  of  . 


Duration 

5 Weeks 
24  Hrs 

24  Hrs 


Physician 


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


Of  autopsy  

What  test  oonflrmed  diagnosis?  &?..Y.PP?y. 

20  Was  disease  or  Injury  in  any  way  related  to  oooupation  of  deoeased? 

If  so,  speolfy 

(Signed) J. ,. M. 

(Address) 


..V.....S....M.O!>Sy ...  . ...  M.  D 

Mass^^eneral  Ho  apt  Date l.ri.7  19 .*7 


21  cremation8  oRIAREMolWjn.thr.Q.p >..... Q oni”Winthrop  Mass 

(Cemetery)  (City  or  Town) 

OF  BURIAL  Jan/21/4.7 19 


(Cemetery) 

Jan/21/47 


22  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR 

ADDRESS  


A A Duncan 

Somerville  ^ass. 


19 


Reoelved  and  filed  . zzzz::JAIt3±:MI 

(Registrar  of  City  or  Town  where  deceased  resided) 


RM  R-301  A 


It? 


2Tlj c Cunutuuiiuraltl]  of  jWassjirlinsrtts 

OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 

DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


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

1.3 


Registered  No. 


( (If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution. 
3*.  \ gj 


2 FULL  NAME 


(If  deceased  la/ a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman.  Rive/ alao  maiden  name.) 

(a)  Residence.  No : St. 

(Usual  place  of  abode) 


Length  of  stay:  In  no.Dltal  or  Institution y 

(Before  death)  f Specify/whether) 


yeara 


months 


days. 


give  its  NAMK  instead  of  street  and  number) 

r PHYSICIAN  - IMPORTANT 

J (Was  deceased  a 
| U.  S.  War  Veteran, 

^ ^ if  so  specify  WAR)  r 

(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 

In  this  community 


yrs. 


days. 


PERSONAL  ANO  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 


5 SINGLE  (wri^e  the  word) 
MARRIED 
WIOOWED 
or  DIVORCI 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced 

HUSBAND  of  ...... 

(Give  maiden  name  of  wife  in  full) 

(or)  WIFE  of  

(Husband's  name  In  full) 


( Year) 


6 Age  of  husbsod  or  wife  if  alive 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


8 

AGE 


Years 


Months 


Days 


If  less  than  1 day 

Hours  Mlnutas 


Usual 

9 Occupation: 


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


II  Social  Security  No. 


^ r*U 


12  BIRTHPLACE  f City ) 
( Slate  or  romriry ) 


| 13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 


14  BIRTHPLACE  0 
FATHER  (City) 
(Stale  or  country) 


15  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 

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


I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  a satisfactory  atandard  oertlfloata  uf  death  was 
rORE  the  OufU)  or  transit  permit  was  Issued : 

•f  Agent  * 

1 Designation) 


loard  of  Hesrtuf  oryither)  , 



( Date  of  fsauybf  Permit)/  / / 


p Y »— C E FLTfL  fit  , Sf  Isa  t 1 attended— deoeased  from 

’/S. 

olive  on death  Is  said  to 

the  date  stated  above, 
jauaayjf  death 


st  saw  hr)6*rr..  „ _ 

have  occurred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at m.  — 

Immediate  ca 


Due  to 


Oue  to 7 


Other  conditions.. 

(Include  pregnancy  withii  1 months  of  death) 

Major  findings: 

Of  operations 


Duration 

IMPORTANT 


Of  autopsy 

What  test  oonflrmed  diagnosis? 


Date  of . 


IMPORTANT 

Phyniciao 


Underline 
the  cause  to 
which  death 
should  he 
charged  st.i- 
tisticallv. 


20  Was  disease  or  injury  in  any  way  related  to  oooupatlon  of  deemed? 
If  80,  tpooify....^ .//. fa-y,. 

( Signed) IT.... k 

(Address) 


my. 


M.  D. 


Pete  f f „ I9^y? 



CCiky  or  7 own) 

i9  y.,7 


Reoeived  and  Rlad 1J 

- — - Mi-H-mi 


(Rvyrietrur) 


EXTRACT8  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.  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  oi  chapter  iorty-six,  tnat  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  prac;ice: 

(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 

DATE  OF  ENTERING  MILITARY  SERVICE 

DATE  OF  DISCHARGE  

RANK,  RATING  

ORGANIZATION  AND  OUTFIT  


SERVICE  NUMBER 


V 


Suffolk 

(County) 


Vint hr op 

(City  or  Town) 


?£Ije  (£  mtt mmtfo ea It h of 

OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
DIVISION  OF  VITAL.  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


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

10 


no.  finthrop  Community  Hospital 


Registered  No 

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


2 full  name  Fraher 

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

(a)  Residence.  No.  69  Fremont  St 

(Usual  place  of  abode) 


PHYSICIAN*  IMPORTANT 

(Was  deceased  a 
U.  S.  War  Veteran, 
if  so  specify  WAR) 


St. 


Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  institution  r h P 

(Before  death)  (Specify  whether) 


years 

* J 2 


months  3T*days. 

/ r,  __ 

' - -- 


(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 

In  this  community  yrs.  mos. 


days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 

ta_  . 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 


'UCjlc 


5 SINGLE  (wr4e.the  word) 

married  Bungle 

WIDOWED  u 

or  DIVORCED 


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 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


8 

AGE 


Years 


Months 


Days 


Usual 

9 Occupation: 


Industry 
10  or  Business: 


11  Social  Security  No. 


(State  or  Country) 

Fa  a sar;  hfi  a a t t.a 

13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 

Thomas  Fraher 

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14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
FATHER  (City) 

Roxbury 

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(State  or  Country; 

Massachusetts 

LlI 

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15  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 

AT  1 no  F»  Sea.rs 

16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
MOTHER  (City) 

Boston 

(State  or  Country) 

Massachusetts 

17 


Thomas  Fraher  ( ¥&'t>h£ry ) 
Fremont  St. , Vinthrop 


I HER£|3Y  CERTIFY  that  a satisfactory  standaul  certificate  of  death  was  filed 
re  BEFjORf  the  burial  of  Jtansir berm tf/Was  issued: 


(Date  of  Issui 


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MtCICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


18  DATE  OF 
DEATH 


19 


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(Day) 


(Year) 


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years 


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Immediate  cause 


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(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


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Of  autopsy 

What  test  confirmed  diagnosis? 


20  Was  disease  or  ii)fu}y  in^fiy 
If  so,  specify 


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.  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  secuon  ten  ot  chapter  tony -six,  tuat  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 


1-9-44-1 4955 


d]c  (HomnumfaeaStSj  of  JUftassacljusefis 
OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
DIVISION  OF  VITAL.  STATISTICS 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


% 

(If  deceased  is  a mailed,  widowrt^r  divorced  worn^ir,  give  also  maidc 

Residence.  No.  / ^ 'w 4 & C- ' 

(Usual  place  of  abode;  ' 


upf 

laiderrname.) 


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

20 


Registered  No. 

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


jmber) 

PHYSICIAN-  IMPORTANT 

(Was  deceased  a 
U.  S.  War  Veteran, 
if  so  specify  WAR) 


Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  institution 

(Before  death)  (Specify  whet, 


years  - months .. 


St. 

days. 


(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 

In  this  community  yrs.  mas. 


days. 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


4 COLOR  OR'RACE 


5 SINGLE  (write  the*svord) . 

MARRIED 
WIDOWED 
or  DIVORCED 


5a  If  married,  widowed  or  divorced 
HUSBAND  of 

(Give  maiden  name  of  wife  in  full) 

(or)  WIFE  of 

(Husband's  name  in  full) 


s the*.word)  - 


6 Age  of  husband  or  wife  if  alive 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


8 

AGE  Years 


Months 


Days 


If  less  than  1 day 
Hours 


Minutes 


Usual 

9 Occupation: 


Industry 
10  or  Business: 


11  Social  Security  No 


14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 
FATHER  (City) 
(State  or  Country; 


s5? 


y.. 


15  MAIDEN  NAME  w 
OF  MOTHER 


/ 


(State  or  Country) 


17 


Informant  '•••/ 


■y  , 

. / / / ( Relation„if  any  \ 

4 _ M.Jj.  "/  •*  (v  . ) 


-Address, 

I HEREBYtCERTIFY  that  a satisfactory  standard  certificate 'of  death  was  filed 
with  me  BEFORE  the  burial  or  traiftii  nermilOwas  issued: 

UJc  _ . 

(Signature  of  AgejjQrU^f iGAwlP  Health  or  other) 

H-tO  ■ 9^/. 

(Official  Designation)  //  (Date  of  Issuevif  Pejmit) 


18  DATE  OF 
DEATH 


s 


(Mi> 


onth) 


(Day) 


/9J^  7 

(Year) 


19  I HEREBY  CERTIFY,  That  I attended  deceased  from 

/?.  ° , 19^  1.  , to JcfVry.  ..!•*$? , 19 

/ S T'  //  h o r v 1 / ^ XXr\  ✓_/ 

. - ,19  , death  is  said  to 

£ . o s-  (p 


I -tast-sew-  h *h*e  on 

have  occurred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at 
Immediate  cause  of  death 


ZXt 


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 

V 


IMPORTANT 

Physician 

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


. -V- 

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


Received  and  Filed 


JAN  29 1941 


(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 
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  be  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.  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  ot  cnapicr  loily-tix,  tuat  tnc  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 


a. 


WRITE  PLAINLY,  WITH  UNFADING  BLACK  INK  - THIS  IS  A PERMANENT  RECORD 

Copies  of  returns  of  deaths  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-802  to  the  clerk 
of  the  city  or  town  in  which  the  deceased  resided.  (See  Chap.  48,  Sec.  12,  G.  L.) 


3RM  R-302 


r fE  Suffolk.... 

2 (County) 

Q 

& ....  Boston 

(City  or  Town) 


Cimtmtmfoealtlj  of  JHassadfuaetis 
OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 

COPY  OF 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


Boston 

(City  or  town  making  return) 


7KCp»  •? 

Registered  No.  ....  -AwtJL. 


No, 


II  -S  M Ho  «!TVfc  Cl  $ (If  death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 

1 .W.t?..y.y. St.  < give  jts  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 


2 FULL  NAME.. 


Frank  Leonard  Cot  u.  s.  Spanish 

■=■ : : -• {^tyWAR)^«.^.«.^?.. 

Winthrop  Mass 

(If  nonresident,  give  city  or  town  and  State) 


(If  deceased  is  a married,  widowed  or  divorced  woman,  give  also  maiden  name.) 
(a)  Resldenoe.  No.  .....1.11....S  .ynny .side.Ave sl 


(Usual  place  of  abode) 

Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  Institution 

(Before  death)  (Specify  whether) 


years  months  days.  In  this  oommunity  44  yrs.  mos.  days. 

1 hr  and  50  mins* 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 

M 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

W 


5 SINGLE 
MARRIED 
WIDOWED 
or  DIVORCED 


(write  the  word) 

Marriec 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divoroed  ua,,Ja  (1  yrrm 
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  ...: 57 yearn 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  faot  here. 


8 ca  n c If  less  than  1 day 

AGE. ...94... Years. ...7. Months..? Days  Hours I 


..Minutes 


9 Occupation : Vet eran ...Foreman.. 


Boston  Army  Base 

11  Sooial  Seourity  No 0i.2-zy-6.6bQ 


Industry 

10  or  Business: 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City) 
(State  or  country) 


..Jo.hns.on....ci.ty..I«m.*.. 


13  NAME  OF 
FATHER 

Burke  Leonard 

CO 

14  BIRTHPLACE  OF 

FATHER  f City  I 

New  Jersey 

z 

UJ 

(State  or  country) 

CC 

< 

Q. 

15  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 

Catherine  Short 

16  BIRTHPLACE  OF 

MOTHER  fCitvl  

Unable  to  learn 

(State  or  country) 

17 

Informant 

(Address) 

|linl.|aX^e‘ar'&*."' ) 

A TRUlS^.^  * ^ J* 

■y  ( Registrar  of  < Ip 

DATE  FILBb  L. 

.'jni.2.7./47 X/i 9 

II 

f ^ 

MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


18  DATE  OF 
DEATH  


Jan.  21/47 


(Month) 


(Day) 


(Tear) 


That 


attended  . deoeggpi 

Jan 


19  I HEREBY  CERTIFY, 

J.an».....2.I , 19.....47,  t« 

I last  saw  h....irn alive  on . „ . ?9 , death  is  said  to 

have  ooourred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at IX.  EM m. 


Immediate  oause  of  death 

Myocardial... Infarction 


Due  to ArteriQ.....S.cl^ 


Due  to.. 


Other  conditions 

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings: 
Of  operations.. 


Date  of.. 


Duration 

Unknown 

Unknown 


Physician 

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


Of  autopsy  

What  test  oonfirmed  diagnosis? 

20  Was  disease  or  injury  in  any  way  related  to  oooupation  of  deoeased? No 

If  so,  speolfy 

(Signed) T...  H ..Flynn m.  d. 

(Address)  U .SJAarine  So  sp.t ..  Datel-22 19.47... 


21  cPreSat%nB oRRIARLEMOVAPin.throp.. .C«n-Winthrop  Maes, 

(Cemetery)  (City  or  Town) 

date  of  burial Jftn.2.4/47 19 


22  NAME  OF  it  O J „ 

FUNERAL  DIRECTOR  .J}  .f.....^®yh5JrH..6 

address Winthrop  “as 8.. 


Reoeived  and  filed 


:::  jam.  3:l::  i:a  $7 j 

(Registrar  of  City  or  Town  where  deceased  resided) 


Entered  Service  Sept,  6,1901 
Discharged  Sept,  9,1910 
Musician 

7th  Co, Coast  Art, Corps 


WRITE  PLAINLY,  WITH  UNKAUlNli  tSLALiK.  INK. 1H13  IS  A rLiuviAi'iti'i  i ivc-v-uru.  tvery  item  or 

information  should  be  carefully  supplied.  AGE  should  be  stated  EXACTLY.  PHYSICIANS  should  state 
CAUSE  OF  DEATH  in  plain  terms,  so  that  it  may  be  properly  classified.  Exact  statement  of  OCCUPATION 
is  very  important.  See  instructions  and  extracts  from  the  laws  on  back  of  certificate. 


M R-301  A 


/i 

10  / tfCc&nty) 

(City  or  Town) 


±±L 


ffiljr  (ttotmnnmuralllj  of  MaBaarijuflrlt* 
OFFICE  OF  THE  SECRETARY 
DIVISION  OF  VITAL  STATISTICS 


Registered  No. 


•***•*<**• 


To  be  filed  for  burial  permit 
with  Board  of  Health 

or  its  Agent. 

STANDARD 

CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 

No 7/...TT. L. 

2 FULL  NAM  . .V; 

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

(a)  Residence.  No...^..^.....^^^W.^..^..'. St 

(Usual  place  of  abode)  (H  nonresident,  gtfe  city  or  town  and  state) 

Length  of  stay:  In  hospital  or  institution 7 years  months  days.  In  this  community  yrs.  mos.  days. 

(Specify  whether) 


/ / ) j A j o ! death  occurred  in  a hospital  or  institution, 

St.  (give  its  NAME  instead  of  street  and  number) 


(If  U.  S. 

War  Veteran, 

specify  WAR)...,... 


PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


3 SEX 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 


5 SINGLE  Xwrite  the  word) 

MARRIED  {, 

WIDOWED 
or  DIVORCED 


5a  If  married,  widowed,  or  divorced 

HUSBAND  of ./ 

(Give  maiden  name  of  wife  in  full) 

(or)  WIFE  of 

"usband's  name  in  full) 


6 Age  of  husband  op  wife  if  alive.. 


years 


7 IF  STILLBORN,  enter  that  fact  here. 


8 ecT/ 


AGE 


I If  lees  than  1 day 

..Years Months..., Days| Hours Minutes 


Usual 
9 Occupation 


Industry 
10  or  Business:. 


11  Social  Security  No.. 


■-e-— * — ■ 


12  BIRTHPLACE  (City).. 
(State  or  country) 


13  NAME  OF  // 
FATHE^^ 

14  BIRTHPLACE  & 

FATHER  (Citvl 

(State  or  country) 

IS  MAIDEN  NAME  , 
OF  MOTHER  r. 

^ ✓ 7/  y'  / 

16  BIRTHPLACE  OF  " 

MOTHER  fCitvl 

(State  or  country) 

/J  / 4 Relation,  if  any 

(Address)^/  ^ OLCU  - 

I HEREBY  CERTIFY  that  a satisfactory  standard  certificate  of  death 
was  filed. with  me  BEFOREDv#  bur^st  or  transit  permit  was  issued: 


MEDICAL  CERTIFICATE  OF  DEATH 


18  DATE  OF 


on  1 £.  Ul  ( I /V  SJ  A J J 

DEATH 

(Month)  l 


2-  2- 
(Day) 


>»} 


That  I attended  deceased  from 

h is 

., 'death  is  said  to 


have  occurred  on  the  date  stated  above,  at jJ.  m. 

Immediate  cause  of  de^th. 



Duration 

IMPORTANT 

.■«"8e^^ 



Due  

Due  to  . . . . , 

Other  conditions. /C. 

(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 

z 

IMPORTANT 

PHYSICIAN 

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

1/ 

Major  findings: 

Of  operations.'7^^£^3L. 

7 a, Date  of 

„ Of  aufnpsy  

What  test  confirmed  dia^osjs^r^.^rT?^^r^7^£^^^£ . . . . 

20  Wat  disease  or  injury  in  any  way  related  te  occupation  of  deceased? 


^ If  so,  specify..  J /.... 

\ (Signed)  ... -kz.k;. .... 

\ ( A d dress ) v ^7^, ■ ■ -P ate. 7^,.  1 


•Jf&v 

.....,..........^.....7v...zS 


date  of  Burial 


22  NAME  OF 

FUNERAL  DIREC 


t ur itexvnu  u uusV/iv^y. — „ >w. tt: . . t ,k ^ 

ADDRESa^^ ..j/.. . 

Received  and  filed rw.. 

im  2. mil. 


19 


(Registrar) 


: ij 


EXTRACTS  FROM  THE  LAV/S  OF  THE 

COMMONWEALTH  OP  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  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  receiv- 
ing 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  in- 
sufficient, a physician  who  Is  a member  of  the  board  of  health,  or  em- 
ployed by  it  or  by  the  selectmen  for  the  purpose,  shall  upon  application 
make  the  certificate  required  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  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  re- 
moval 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  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  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  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 
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  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 
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  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,  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 


should  bo  carefully  supplied.  AGE  should  be  stated  EXACTLY.  PHYSICIANS  should  state  CAUSE  OF  DEATH  in  plain 
terms,  so  that  it  may  be  properly  classified.  Exact  statement  of  OCCUPATION  is  very  important.  See  instructions  anu 
extracts  from  the  laws  on  back  of  certificate. 

If  deotased  was  ■ U.  S.  War  Vetaran,  Q.  L.  Chap.  46,  Seotlon  10,  requires  pliysioians  to  Insert  a reoltal  to  that  affaot. 

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


Length  of  stay:  In  nosDltai  nr  Institution  T 

(Before  death)  (Specify 


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PERSONAL  AND  STATISTICAL  PARTICULARS 


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Female 


4 COLOR  OR  RACE 

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5 SINGLE  (write  the  word) 
MARRIED 

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FATHER 


Michael  Coyne 


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


Ireland 


13  MAIDEN  NAME 
OF  MOTHER 


211en  7elch 


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


Ireland 


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


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Duration 

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(Include  pregnancy  within  3 months  of  death) 


Major  findings: 
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Data  of 


Of  autopsy 

What  test  oonflrmed  diagnosis?. 


IMPORTANT 


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the  cause  to 
which  death 
should  be 
charged  sta- 
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Place  of  Burial,  Crcmatif(n\or 
DATE  OF  BURIAL 


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ADDRESS 


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with  Board  of  Health 
or  ita  Agent. 


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 
tfhere  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  leu  oi  cliapier  lorty-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). 


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  th^ 
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  gainfull

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