Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1919-1921, Part 1

Author: Winthrop (Mass.)
Publication date: 1919
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أحمد

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جم

د مجم.

مك١٢٨٨٨٨

اليفيهان موزجوياً

J. L. FAIRBANKS & CO. Stationers 43 FRANKLIN STREET -BOSTON-

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

of certificate.

Informant.

Imo. H. E God dard.

(Adress) 5-8. Centre At.1

15 Filed 6/21, 19/9.

REGISTRAR

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

16 DATE OF DEATH (month, day, and year) Jan 3

19 / 9

I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from

gian

1919, to Jan 3

............

1919

that I last saw h alive on

gala 3.

1949.

and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at

3.40 a.m.

The CAUSE OF DEATH* was as follows :

If LESS than 1 day, ........ hrs. or ........ min. Influenza septicasma

.(duration)

.yrs ................. mos.

ds.

CONTRIBUTORY

Influenza

(SECONDARY)

.(duration)

.. yrs ...

15 ds.

mos ...

18 Where was disease contracted

if not at place of death ?

Did an operation precede death ?..

Date of

Was there an autopsy ?

200

What test confirmed diagnosis ?

(Signed)

1.3.1919 (Address) 56- Shirley It worth pix

* State the DISEASE CAUSING DEATII, Gr in deaths from VIOLENT CAUSES, state (1) MEANS AND NATURE OF INJURY, and (2) whether ACCIDENTAL, SUICIDAL, or HOMICIDAL. (See reverse side for additional space.)

19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL Winthink mass.

DATE OF BURIAL San. 5- 1919

ADDRESS

20 UNDERTAKER 1.6 Inderich

Winthink. (City or town)

1 PLACE OF DEATH

County.

Suf folk

Township Northrop

.. or Village ......

City

No.

58 Centre

St., .......... .Ward

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

Duncan Mc Lean Steward

(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)

(a) Residence.

No: 8 3am

St.,

Ward.

(Usual place of abode)

Length of residence in city or town where death occurred 2 5 years

months

days.

How long in U. S., if of foreign birth ?

years

months

days

PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS

3 SEX

tale

4 COLOR OR RACE

White

5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR

DIVORCED (write the word)

Single

5a If married, widowed, or divorced

HUSBAND of

(or) WIFE of

6 DATE OF BIRTH (month, day, and year)

Jan.13. 1886

7 AGE

Years

321

Months

2 $

8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED

(a) Trade, profession, or

Commercial mgr.

particular kind of work

(h) General nature of industry, business, or establishmeot ip which employed (or employer) (c) Name of employer

7. E Telephone to

9 BIRTHPLACE (city or town).

East Bratr

(State or country)

10 NAME OF FATHER Joseph Steward

PARENTS

11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (city or town).

(State or country) mass

12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER bbie Grouse

13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (city or town). (State or country)

MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING

The Commonwealth of it STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

.State.

Registered No. 544

M.D.

2 FULL NAME

(If non-resident give eity or town and State)

Days

ATNIV ...

REVISED UNITED STATES STANDARD CENTITIVAIL VA VIATHE [Approved by U. S. Census and American Public Health Association}

Statement of occupation. - Precise statement of occupa- tion is very important, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known. The question applies to cach and every person, irrespective of age. For many occupations a single word or term on the first line will be sufficient, e. g., Farmer or Planter, Physician, Compos- itor, Architect, Locomotive engineer, Civil engineer, Stationary fireman, etc. But in many cases, especially in industrial employments, it is necessary to know (a) the kind of work and also (b) the nature of the business or industry, and therefore an additional line is provided for the latter statement; it should be used only when needed. As examples: (a) Spinner, (b) Cotton mill; (a) Salesman, (b) Grocery; (a) Foreman, (b) Automobile factory. The ma- terial worked on may form part of the second statement. Never return "Laborer," "Foreman," "Manager," " Dealer." etc., without more precise specification, as Day laborer, Farm laborcr, Laborer - Coal mine, etc. Women at home, who are engaged in the duties of the household only (not paid Housekeepers who receive a definite salary), may be entered as Housewife, Housework, or At home, and children, not gainfully employed, as At school or At home. Care should be taken to report spe- cifically the occupations of persons engaged in domestic service for wages, as Servant, Cook, Housemaid, etc. If the occupation has been changed or given up on account of the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH, state occupation at beginning of illness. If retired from business, that fact may be indi- cated thus: Farmer (retired, 6 yrs.). For persons who have no occupation whatever, write None.

Statement of cause of death .- Name, first, the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH (the primary affection with respect to time and causation), using always the same accepted term for the same disease. Examples: Cerebrospinal fever (the only definite synonym is "Epidemic cerebrospinal menin- gitis"); Diphtheria (avoid use of "Croup"); Typhoid fever (never report "Typhoid pneumonia"); Lobar pneumonia; Bronchopneumonia ("Pneumonia," unquali- fied, is indefinite); Tuberculosis of lungs, meninges, peri- toncum, etc., Carcinoma, Sarcoma, etc., of_

(name origin; "Cancer" is less definite; avoid use of "Tumor" for malignant neoplasms); Mcasles; Whooping cough; Chronic valvular heart disease; Chronic interstitial nephritis, etc. The contributory (secondary or inter- current) affection need not be stated unless important. Example: Mcasles (disease causing death), 29 ds .; Broncho- pneumonia (secondary), 10 ds. Never report mere symp- toms or terminal conditions, such as "Asthenia," "Ancmia" (merely symptomatic), "Atrophy." "Col- lapse," "Coma," "Convulsions," " "Debility" (“Con- genital," "Senile." etc.), "Dropsy," "Exhaustion," "Heart failure," "Hemorrhage," "Inanition," "Maras- inus," "Old age," "Shock,"" "Uremia," "Weakness," etc., when a definite disease can be ascertained as the cause. Always qualify all diseases resulting from child- birth or miscarriage, as "PUERPERAL septicemia," "PUER- PERAL peritonitis," etc. State cause for which surgical operation was undertaken. For VIOLENT DEATHS STATE MEANS OF INJURY and qualify as ACCIDENTAL, SUICIDAL, or HOMICIDAL, or as probably such, if impossible to de- termine definitely. Examples: Accidental drowning; Struck by railway train - accident; Revolver wound of head - homicide; Poisoned by carbolic acid - probably suicide. The nature of the injury, as fracture of skull, and consequences (e. g., sepsis, tetanus) may be stated

on statement of cause on tributorr.

(Recommendations

on Nomenclature of the American Medical Association.)

Cases for the Medical Examiners. - Under the provi- sions of chapter 24 of the Revised Laws deaths under the following conditions must be referred to the Medical Examiners:

1. Deaths following injury or violence, as Burns, Falls, Drowning, Gas poisoning, Suicide, Homicide, etc.

2. Deaths supposedly caused by violence, as Criminal abortion, Poisoning, Starvation, Suffocation, Exposure, etc.

3. Sudden deathis of persons not disabled by recognized disease, as A death upon the street, or one supposed to be due to Alcoholism, etc.

4. Deaths under circumstances unknown, as A person found dead, etc.

ADDITIONAL SPACE

FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS BY PHYSICIAN.

R 15.] [10-'18. 10,000.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

BOSTON (City or town)

1 PLACE OF DEATH

County Suffolk

State

Massachusetts

Registered No.

www.or

.Ward

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

2 FULL NAME

Imitchell Gage

(a) Residence.

(Usual place of abode) Leogth of resideoce in city or towo where death occorred years

mooths

days.

How loog io U. S., if of foreign birth ?

years

mooths days

PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS

3 SEX

Prale

4 COLOR OR RACE 5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR DIVORCED (write the word) Heute married

5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of (or) WIFE of que Curry

6 DATE OF BIRTH (month, day, and year) Jev 14, 1886

7 AGE

Years

Months

Days

8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED

(a) Trade, profession, of

Candy brunico

particular kind of work

(b) General nature of industry, bosiness, or establishment in which employed (or employer) (c) Name of employer

Salcom

(duration)

.. yrs ................. mos ......

.ds.

CONTRIBUTORY.

(SECONDARY)

(duration)

.. yrs ................. mos.

ds.

18 Where was disease contracted

if not at place of death ?

FOR WHAT ?

Did an operation precede death?

no Date of

Was there an autopsy ? 200

What test confirmed diagnosis ?

6.5. 1919 tortues

* State the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH, oFindeaths from VIOLENT CAUSES, state (1) MEANS AND NATURE OF INJURY, and (2) whether ACCIDENTAL, SUICIDAL, or HOMICIDAL. (See reverse side for additional spacc.)

19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL -

DATE OF BURIAL Bralborough Duas Jeich 19

20 UNDERTAKER

ADDRESS

15 Filed. Jan. 21, 1919

REGISTRAR

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

16 DATE OF DEATH (month, day, and sea) Vin. Lt 19

I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from

Dec 24

19//, to

Jamy 4, 1919

that I last saw h

Lalive on

...

3, 1919

and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at 7 9 m. .. m.

The CAUSE OF DEATH* was as follows :

If LESS thao I day, ........ hrs. or ........ mio. Darrelle Laban Pneumonia

9 BIRTHPLACE (city or town).

Haterville.

(State or country)

10 NAME OF FATHER

PARENTS

11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (city or town).

(Statc or country) Waterville mme (Sigoed)

12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER Camaradas

13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (city or town) Laterrill (State or country)

Informant

(Address)

of certificate.

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

Township

or Village ....

City BOSTON No.

(If in The Army of art the Coned states, give ruuk, organization, etc.i No. La Vebrians St. .Ward.

(If non-resident give city or town and State)

M.D.

MARVIN REOLKYED TOTY WINET

REVISED UNITED STATES STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH [Approved by U. S. Census and American Public Health Association]

Statement of occupation. - Precise statement of occupa- tion is very important, so that the refative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known. The question applies to cach and every person, irrespective of age. For many occupations a single word or terin on the first line will be sufficient, e. g., Farmer or Planter, Physician, Compos- itor, Architeet, Locomotive engineer, Civil engineer, Stationary fireman, etc. But in many cases, especially in industrial employments, it is necessary to know (a) the kind of work and also (b) the nature of the business or industry, and therefore an additional line is provided for the latter statement; it should be used only when needed. As examples: (a) Spinner, (b) Cotton mill; (a) Salesman, (b) Grocery; (a) Foreman, (b) Automobile factory. The ma- terial worked on inay form part of the second statement. Never return "Laborcr," "Foreman," " Manager," "Dealer," etc., without more precise specification, as Day laborer, Farm laborer, Laborer - Coal mine, etc. Women at home, who are engaged in the duties of the household only (not paid Housekeepers who receive a definite salary), may be entered as Housewife, Housework, or At home, and children, not gainfully employed, as At school or At home. Care should be taken to report spe- cifically the occupations of persons engaged in domestic service for wages, as Servant, Cook, Housemaid, etc. If the occupation has been changed or given up on account of the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH, state occupation at beginning of illness. If retired from business, that fact may be indi- cated thus: Farmer (retired, 6 yrs.). For persons who have no occupation whatever, write None.

Statement of cause of death. - Name, first, the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH (the primary affection with respect to time and causation), using always the same accepted term for the same disease. Examples: Cerebrospinal fever (the only definite synonym is "Epidemic cerebrospinal menin- gitis"); Diphtheria (avoid use of "Croup"); Typhoid fever (never report "Typhoid pneumonia"); Lobar pneumonia; Bronehopneumonia ("Pneumonia," unquali- fied, is indefinite); Tuberculosis of lungs, meninges, peri- toneum, etc., Carcinoma, Sarcoma, etc., of_

(name origin; "Cancer" is less definite; avoid use of "Tumor" for malignant neoplasms); Measles; Whooping cough; Chronie valvular heart disease; Chronic interstitial nephritis, etc. The contributory (secondary or inter- current) affection need not be stated unless important. Example: Measles (disease causing death), 29 ds .; Broneho- pneumonia (secondary), 10 ds. Never report mere symp- toms or terminal conditions, such as " Asthenia," "Ancinia" (merely symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Col- lapse," "Coma," ""Convulsions,"""Debility" ("Con- genital," "Senile," etc.), "Dropsy,". "Exhaustion," "Heart failure," "Hemorrhage," "Inanition," "Maras- inus," "Old age," "Shock,"" "Uremia," "Weakness," etc., when a definite disease can be ascertained as the cause. Always qualify all diseases resulting from child- birth or miscarriage, as "PUERPERAL septicemia," "PUER- PERAL peritonitis," etc. State cause for which surgical operation was undertaken. For VIOLENT DEATHS STATE MEANS OF INJURY and qualify as ACCIDENTAL, SUICIDAL, or HOMICIDAL, or as probably such, if impossible to dc- termine definitely. Examples: Accidental drowning; Struck by railway train - accident; Revolver wound of head - homicide; Poisoned by earbolic acid - probably suicide. The nature of the injury, as fracture of skull, and consequences (e. g., sepsis, tetanus) may be stated

under the head of "Contributory." (Recommendations on statement of cause of death approved by Committee on Nomenclature of the American Medical Association.)

Cases for the Medical Examiners. - Under the provi- sions of chapter 24 of the Revised Laws deaths under the following conditions must be referred to the Medical Examiners:

1. Deaths following injury or violence, as Burns, Falls, Drowning, Gas poisoning, Suicide, Homicide, etc.

2. Deaths supposedly caused by violence, as Criminal abortion, Poisoning, Starvation, Suffocation, Exposure, etc.

3. Sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, as A death upon the street, or one supposed to be due to Alcoholism, etc.

4. Deaths under circumstances unknown, as A person found deaz', etc.

ADDITIONAL SPACE FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS BY

PHYSICIAN.

R 15. 2-'18. 100,000.

'ORM R-301

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts STANDARD CERTIFICATE. OF DEATH

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS

1 PLACE OF DEATH Sulfall

County.

State

Registered No.

St .. Ward

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

2 FULL NAME

(a) Residence.

No.

35 malin

St.

Ward.

(If non-resident give city or town and State)

Length of residence ia city or town where death occurred

13 years

months

days.

How long in U. S., if of foreign birth ?

years

months

days

PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS

3 SEX

4 COLOR OR RACE

(1)

5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR

DIVORCED (write the word)

Maria

5a If married, widowed, or divorced

HUSBAND of

(or) WIFE of

6 DATE OF BIRTH

( Month)

(Day)

( Year)

7 AGE

+ Years

Months

Days

If STILLBORN, enter that fact here

If STILLBORN, state period of nterogestation

mcs.

If LESS than

I day, ........ hrs.

....... min.

8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED (a) Trade, profession, or particular kind of work (b) Genera; nature of industry, business, or establishment in which employed ( or employer).

CONTRIBUTORY ...

Chronic Mitral Stenasus

ds.

(SECONDARY)

InProficiency

(duration)

yrs.

mos ....

ds.

18 Where was disease contracted

if not at place of death?

Did an operation precede death ?..

Date of

Was there an autopsy ?

stethoscope.

What test confirmed diagnosis ?

(Signed).

force & fragdon

, M.D.

(Address). 7 Central dufr

Date ... 419-

Gut destin

( Month)

(Day)

(Year)

Informant

(Address)

15 Jan, 21 1919

Filed (Month) (Day) (Year)

REGISTRAR

21 I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stan- dard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued S. a. Maury

Official position ..

Health Officer

22 Date of issue of harial or transit permit

Jan. 8/919

MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING

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

10-'18. 100,000.

MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

16 DATE OF DEATH

Month)

Jan

(Day)

(Year)

HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from

Dev. 28

1918

Jan 6

,19.79

....

that I last saw

h.97.

alive on

Den 5 -

, 19 ( 9,

and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at ..

9 BIRTHPLACE (City)

(State or country)

10 NAME OF

FATHER

PARENTS

11 BIRTHPLACE OF

FATHER (City)

(State or country)

12 MAIDEN NAME

OF MOTHER

13 BIRTHPLACE OF

MOTHER (City)

(State or country)

19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL

DATE OF BURIAL , --- 19//

(Cemetery)

(City or town)

20 UNDERTAKER

ADDRESS 11

City or Town

No.

(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)

( Usual place of abode)

The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows ¿ Tobor In

Jan . 6, 19 19

REVISED UNITED STATES STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

[Approved by U. S. Census and American Public Health Association]

Statement of occupation. - Precise statement of occupation is very important, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known. The question applies to each and every person, irrespective of age. For many occupations a single word or term on the first line will be sufficient, e. g., Farmer or Planter, Physician, Compositor, Architect, Locomotive engineer, Civilengineer, Stationary fireman, etc. Butin many cases, especially in industrial employments, it is necessary to know (a) the kind of work and also (b) the nature of the business or industry, and therefore an additional line is provided for the latter statement; it should be used only when needed. As examples: (a) Spinner, (b) Cotton mill; (a) Salesman, (b) Grocery; (a) Foreman, (b) Automobile factory. The material worked on may form part of the second statement. Never return "Laborer," "Foreman," "Manager," "Dealer," etc., without more precise specification, as Day laborer, Farm laborer, Laborer - Coal mine, etc. Women at home, who are engaged in the duties of the house- hold only (not paid Ilousekcepers who receive a definite salary), may be entered as Housewife, Hlousework, or At home, and children, not gainfully employed, as At school or At home. Care should be taken to report spe- cifically the occupations of persons engaged in domestic service for wages, as Servant, Cook, Hlousemaid, etc. If the occupation has been changed or given up on account of the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH, state occupation at beginning of illness. If retired from business, that fact may be indicated thus: Farmer (retired, 6 yrs.). For persons who have no occupation whatever, write None.

Statement of cause of death. - Name, first, the DISEASE CAUSING DEATII (the primary affection with respect to time and causation), using always the same accepted term for the same disease. Examples: Cere- brospinal fever (the only definite synonym is "Epidemie cerebrospinal meningitis"); Diphtheria (avoid use of "Croup"); Typhoid fever (never report "Typhoid pneumonia"); Lobar pneumonia; Bronchopneumonia ("Pneumonia," unqualified, is indefinite); Tuberculosis of lungs, men- inges, peritoneum, etc., Carcinoma, Sarcoma, etc., of .. . (name origin; "Cancer" is less definite; avoid use of "Tumor" for malignant neoplasms); Measles; Whooping cough; Chronic valvular heart disease; Chronic interstitial nephritis, etc. The contributory (secondary or inter- current) affection need not he stated unless important. Example: Measles (disease causing death), 29 ds .; Bronchopneumonia (secondary), 10 ds. Never report mere symptoms or terminal conditions, such as "Asthenia," "Anemia" (merely symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Col- lapse,""Coma,""Convulsions,""Debility" ("Congenital,""Senile," ete.), "Dropsy,""Exhaustion,""Heart failure,""Hemorrhage,""Ina- nition," "Marasmus," "Old age," "Shock," "Uremia,""Weakness," etc., when a definite disease can be ascertained as tho cause. Always qualify all diseases resulting from childbirth or miscarriage, as "PUER- PERAL septicemia," "PUERPERAL peritonitis," etc.

State cause for which surgical operation was undertaken.

(Recommendations on statement of cause of death approved by Com- mittee on Nomenclature of the American Medical Association.)

Bronchopneumonia: If primary cause, write the word "pri- mary" ; if secondary, give primary cause.

Certificates will be returned for additional information which give any of the following diseases, without explanation, as the sole cause of death: Abortion, collulitis, childbirth, convulsions, hemorrhage, gangrene, gastritis, erysipelas, meningitis, miscar- riage, necrosis, peritonitis, phlebitis, pyemia, septicemia, tetanus.

EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH

A physician shall forth with, 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 so that it can be classified under the international classification of causes of death], where contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive by the physician, and the date of his death. . . . - Revised Laws, Chap. 29, Secs. 10 and 1, as amended by Acts of 1910, Chap. 322.

No undertaker or other person shall bury a human body .. . until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent, . . . or . . from the clerk of the city or town in which the person died; . . . no such permit shall be issued until thero shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, ... a satisfactory written statement con- taining the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which ... shall be accompanied by a satisfactory certificate of the at- tending physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certifi- cate 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, the chairman of the board of health, if a physician, or any physician employed by said board or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make such certificate as is required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical examiner only shall make such certificate. . .. The person to whom the per- mit is so given and the physician who certifies to 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. - Revised Laws, Chap. 78, Sec. 38.

Medical examiners shall, in all cases, certify to the city or town clerk or to the city registrar in the place where the deceased died, his name and residence, if known, otherwise a description of such person as full as may be, with the cause and manner of his death, and shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of only such persons as are supposed to have come to their death by violence. - Revised Laws, Chap. 24, Sec. 8.

RULES OF PRACTICE

The fulfilment 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 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 ahortion, 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.

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Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1919-1921, Part 1

Author: Winthrop (Mass.) Publication date: 1919 Publisher: Number of Pages: 1192

Author: Winthrop (Mass.)
Publication date: 1919
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 1192