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EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician shall forthwith, after the death of a person whom he has attended during his last illness, at the request of an undertaker or otlier 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 dicd [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. 822.
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 there 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. - Reviscd 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 dicd, 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 discase 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 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.
-
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
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.
14
Informant
(Address)
15 941.24. 2019 Edward Xx Politono
REGISTRAR
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH (month, day, and year)
apr, 22, 2019.
17
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I Attended deceased from
Mac. 3
19/9, to
March 15, 1919.
that I last saw him alive on
......
March 15, 1919.
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at
m.
The CAUSE OF DEATH* w
was as follows :
Angina Pectoris
(duration)
2003
... yrs.
.mos.
ds.
CONTRIBUTORY
Valvular Hra Dievas
(SECONDARY)
many yrs.
.mos.
ds.
18 Where was disease contracted
if not at place of death ?
Did an operation precede death ?
no.
Date of.
Was there an autopsy ?.
220.
What test confirmed diagnosis ??
(Signed)
fithing. coloria. M.D.,
4,2%, 1914 (Address)
Chelmsford, mari.
* State the DISEASE CAUSING DEATIF, or in deaths from VIOLENT CAUSES, state (1) MEANS AND NATURE OF INJURY, and (2) whether ACCIDENTAL, SUICIDAL, por HOMICIDAL. (See reverse side for additional space.)
19 PLACE OR BURIAL, CREMATION OR REMOVAL. UNCabralstengely
DATE OF BURIAL afs. 24 1
19 /9
20 UNDERTAKER
ADDRESS
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
195
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City or town)
1 PLACE OF DEATHY Valence Counts
State Massachusetts
Registered No.
Township
City
No.
or Village .... Woodbine
St.,
Ward
(If death occurred in a losmtal or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
/ somar 100way
2 FULL NAME
(if in the Army or Navy of the United States, gifc rank, organization, etc.)
St.
.Ward.
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
Male
4 COLOR OR RACE
white
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
5a If married, widowed, or divorced ? any HUSBAND of (or) WIFE of
6 DATE OF BIRTH (month, day, and year) Ved26784
Years
Months
Days
if LESS than 1 day, ........ hrs. or ........ min.
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or particular kind of work ..
Jammer
(b) Geoeral nature of industry, bosiness, or establishment in which employed (or employer) (c) Name of employer
Vetired 6 years
9 BIRTHPLACE (city or town)
(State or country)
10 NAME OF FATHER
PARENTS
11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (chy or town).
(State or country)
12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER Jan Gill
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (eity or town) ... (State or country)
major 4
... or
(a) Residence. No ..
(Usual place of abode)
Leogth of residence in city or town where death occurred
mooths
days.
How long io U. S., if of foreign birth ? 59
years
mooths
... (duration)
7 AGE 77 M/M
REVISED UNITED STATES STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH [Approved by U. S. Census and American Public Health Association.
Statement .
tion is very important, so that we l'autre Minuten ve 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, 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 laborer, Laborer -Coal mine, etc. Women at home, who are engaged in the dutics 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 domestie service for wages, as Servant, Cook, Housemaid, etc. It 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; Chronie valvular heart discase; Chronie interstitial nephritis, ctc. The contributory (secondary or inter- current) affection need not be stated unless important. Example: Measles (disease causing death), 29 Gs .; Broneho- pneumonia (secondary), 10 ds. Never report mere symp- toms or terminal conditions, such as "Asthenia," "Anemia" (merely symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Col- lapse," "Coma," "Convulsions," ""Debility" ("Con-
genital," "Senile,"
etc.), "Dropsy," "Exhaustion," "Heart failure," "Hemorrhage," "Inanition," "Maras- mus," "Old agc," "Shock," "Uremia," "Wcakness," etc., when a definite discase can be ascertained as the cause. Always qualify all diseases resulting from child- birth or misearriage, 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 sueh, 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
1 of "Contributor. " mmendations muse of death app- ed ! Co amittpo ', American M Examiners. - Revised Laws &
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, ctc.
4. Deaths under circumstanees unknown, as A person found dead, etc.
ADDITIONAL SPACE FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS
BY
PHYSICIAN.
R 15. 1-'18. 100,000.
FORM R-303
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(ISSUED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF REVISED LAWS, CHAPTER 24)
·
State
marx
3/
Registered No.
No. Vredon Short ouway to Hospital St.
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
St.,
Ward,
ettlow,
wait
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
mooths
days
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH
(Month)
nr 1919
(Day)
7(Year)
17 I HEREBY CERTIFY that I have investigated the death of the person above-named and that the CAUSE AND MANNER thereof are as follows : fracture of Wake of Skull,
accidentally struck by Que tomobile.
Struck to automobile ou man It. Watford, Muss -. Med in Thelensford ou way to Hospital.
(See reverse side for description for unknown person)
18 Where was injury sustained
Watford, last
if not at place of death ?..
(Sigoed).
V how wexler hunt
... ,
M.D.
(Address) ..
107 Mincu worthy towles.
Shout hudal rex 600
Medical Examiner for.
vV
19/14
Date
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, or REMOVAL
Haroun
NEstrand
DATE OF BURIAL Lupt. 25,19.
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
20 UNDERTAKER
David x BrigaSom
ADDRESS
15
ahs. 25,1919 Edmund & Rafting
(Month) (Day) ( Year)
REGISTRAR
21 Burial permit Edward Do Ribbon issued by ...
Official position
Com Clark,
22 Date of af. 25/1919 Permit issue. No
1-18-'19. 25,000.
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County
(n,deusex)
City or Town
Chelles ford
2 FULL NAME
(a) Residence.
(Usual place of abodc)
Length of residence io city or town where death occurred going through
3 SEX
4 COLOR OR RACE
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
Daisy
(or) WIFE of
6 DATE OF BIRTH
7 AGE
4 Years
( Month)
6
Months
20 Days
If STILLBORN, enter that fact here
If STILLBORN, state period of uterogestatioo.
.. mooths
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or
Carpenter
particular kind of work
(b) General nature of industry,
9 BIRTHPLACE (City).
(State or country)
Maso.
10 NAME OF
FATHER
11 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City) ...
Ifollia
(State or country)
New Hampshire
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
man & Day
13 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City).
PARENTS
Informant.
(Address)
Littletony Man
for extracts from the laws relative to the return of certificates of death.
so that it may be properly classified under the International Classification of Causes of Death. See reverse side
bosiness, or establishment in
which employed ( or employer)
(State or country)
Man
should be carefully supplied. MEDICAL EXAMINERS should state CAUSE AND MANNER OF DEATH in plain terms,
Filed
N. B. - WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of information
(c) Name of employer
Fletcher I Need ham,
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
Marvel
art 21 1878
(Day)
(Year)
If LESS thao 1 day, ...... hrs. or ....... min.
14 Mrs Daisy album
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
Trenths
days
196
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
, ....... Ward
maso.
How loog in U. S., if of foreigo birth?
years
(Month) (Day) (Year)
EXTRACTS
FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician 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 deccascd, furnish for registration a stand- ard certificate of death, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, his supposed agc, the disease of which he dicd [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 scen alive by tho physician, and the date of his death. . - Revised Laws, Chap. 29, Sees. 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 there shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, . . . a satisfactory written state- ment containing the facts required by law to be re- turned and recorded, which . . . shall be accompanied by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as herein- after 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 permit 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 descriptio, 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 sup- poscd 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 carc 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 in- jury or infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, and those of persons found dead.
STATEMENT OF CAUSE OF DEATH
Medical Examiners in certifying to a death will state the cause and manner thereof, and will specify: (1) Under cause, the nature of an injury and of its consequences; and (2) under manner, the mode of its production together with the circumstances when these are known. For example: "Compound fracture of the femur with ensuing septicemia (gas bacillus) caused by a steam railway accident." "Pistol shot wound of the chest with associated hemorrhage, homi- cidal." "Asphyxiation by suspension, suicidal." "Syn- cope while under the influence of ether administered as a surgical anæsthetic." "Fracture of the skull with associated internal injury sustained under circumstances unknown."
If investigation shows the death to have been due to dis- ease, specify: (1) Under cause, its known or presumable nature; and (2) under manner, indicate the circumstances leading to medico-legal inquiry. For example: "Hemorrhage spontaneous, of the brain (basal gangloid) (found dead in bed).' "Heart disease, presumably coronary sclerosis. (Sudden death.)"
DESCRIPTION (for unknown person)
NOTICE TO UNDERTAKERS: No embalming fluid, or any substitute therefor, shall be injected into the body of any person supposed to have come to his death by violence, until a permit in writing, signed by the Medical Examiner, has first been obtained. - Revised Laws, Chap. 24, Sec. 20.
THIS CERTIFICATE CONSTITUTES SUCH PERMIT
FORM R-301
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.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
197
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
1 PLACE OF DEATH Middleet
County.
State Maso
Registered No.
32
City or Town ...
Cheli ford
No ..
Chelin ford ox
St.
Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, gire its NAME instead of street and number)
Hellig St. Shee han
her har
(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
(a) Residence. No.
Chelios ford Mars
St.,
Ward.
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
( Usual place of abode)
Leogth of residence in city or town where death occurred 2
years
mooths
days.
How long in U. S., if of foreign hirth ?
years
months
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH
april
(stonth)
(Day)
1919
(Ychry
17 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from Seht 1918, to abril 23, 1919.
that I last saw hen alive on
alle 23, 19/19.
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at 12
m. The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows :
or ........ atrophic.
Gyrosis of Liver.
.(duration)
my
yrs ......
.. mos .....
ds.
-
CONTRIBUTORY ..
(SECONDARY)
(duration)
yrs ...
mos .......
ds.
18 Where was disease contracted
if not at place of death ?
×
Did an operation precede death ?.
$10. Date of
X
Was there an autopsy ?
210 .
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
(Signed)
amasa Howard.
M.D.
(Address) ..
Chelmsford Mass.
Date.
abril
24 th1919.
(Year)"
(Month)
(Day)
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
7(Cemetery)
(City or town)
20 UNDERTAKER
fault. Any
ADDRESS 324 may get It
... position ..
Official Com Click
22 Date of issue of hurial or transit permit.
Chr 25, 1919
3 SEX
4 COLOR OR RACE
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
Thedowad
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
Uhma Wheelen
6 DATE OF BIRTH
( Month)
(Day)
/(Year)
7 AGE 4.7 Years
Months
Days
If LESS than
1 day, ........ hrs.
If STILLBORN, state period of uterogestation
.... mos.
at toma
(h) Generai nature of industry, business, or establishment in which employed ( or employer).
(c) Name of employer
9 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
10 NAME OF
FATHER
PARENTS
11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) (State or country)
Vulaud
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Mary Cola
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) .. (State or country)
Quelaud
14 Mas, Silber Vingare Visto
Informant. (Address) Chelev ford
mass
15 april 25, 1919 Edward S. Robbing
File
(Month) (Day) (Year)
REGISTRAR
21 | HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stan- dard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the hurial or transit permit was issued . Edward Robbins
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
If STILLBORN, enter that fact here
16/2
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED (a) Trade, profession, or particular kind of work ..
4 mars
DATE OF BURIAL abu/ 25 1919
2 FULL NAME
23rd
FICATE OF DEATH
Lig .. -- by U. S. Censos dust
Statement of occupation. - Precise statement of occupation is very important, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known. The question applics 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 enginecr, Civilengineer, 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 nceded. 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 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 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 NEATH (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 "Epidemic 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 necd not be 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," etc.), "Dropsy,""Exhaustion,""Heart failure,""Hemorrhage,""Ina- nition," "Marasmus," "Old age," "Shock," "Uremia,""Weakness," etc., when a definite disease can be ascertained as the cause. Always qualify all diseases resulting from childbirth or miscarriage, as "PUER- PERAL septicemia," "PUERPERAL peritonitis," etc.
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