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2. Deaths supposedly eaused 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 strcet, or one supposed to be duc to Alcoholism, etc.
4. Deaths under circumstances unknown, as A· person found dead, ctc.
ADDITIONAL SPACE
FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS BY
PHYSICIAN.
R 303. 6-18. 50,000.
FORM R-303
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County ..
Middleauf
(ISSUED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF REVISED LAWS, CHAPTER 24) Mais.
State.
Chili estoril
No. 00
(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.)
howard, Mais
St.,
.Ward,
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
Length of residence in city nr town where death occurred
years
months
days
Hnw Inng in U. S., if nf foreign hirth?
years
months
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH.
(Month)
(Day)
1919
/(Year)
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
If STILLBORN, enter that fact here
If STILLBORN, state period of uterngestation.
mooths
If LESS than
1 day, ...... hrs.
nr ....... min.
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED (a) Trade, profession, or particular kind nf work. (b) General nature of industry,
Visste
(c) Name of employer
Hector Clough
9 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Mains
11 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City ) .....
(State or country)
",
"
11
13 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City )
"
(State or country)
11
"
(Month)
(Day)
( Year)
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, or REMOVAL
DATE OF BURIAL
Oct 9.1919
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
(Month) (Day) (Year)
20 UNDERTAKER
15
Ock 8 1964 Edward . Bobbing
(Month) (Day) (Year)
REGISTRAR
21 Burial
it Edward ). Rolling
issued by ..
Official Con Clark
position.
22 Date of Oct. 8/1919 issue.
Permit No
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
1-18-'19. 25,000.
2 FULL NAME
3 SEX
male
6 DATE OF BIRTH
7 AGE
54 Years
10 NAME OF
FATHER
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
PARENTS
Informant ..
File
should be carefully supplied. MEDICAL EXAMINERS should state CAUSE AND MANNER OF DEATH in plain terms,
N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of information
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
business, or establishment in
which employed (nr employer)
4 COLOR OR RACE
Matr
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
1865
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 : luphyxia, accidentally buried
in sand slide in sand pit.
(See reverse side for description for unknown person)
18 Where was injury sustained if not at place of death?
(Signed)
showmax
M.D.
(Address)
107 Manwrack ny Lowal
Medical Examiner fnr.
sth Dich Middlesex 600
Date ..
7
.
19110
14 Theas Lilla Brenne tui
(Address )
169 Medalia St.
244
Registered No ......
79
Sted man
St.,.
Ward
City or Town ..
Stephen Richards
(a) Residence.
No
y, Staples
(Usual place of abode) Unable to Jeale
If
Months
Days
1,
ADDRESS
324 Mayget
EXTRACTS
FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician shall forthwitlı, 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 stand- ard 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 scen 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 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 description of such person, as full as may be, with the cause and manner of his death, and shall inake examination upon the view of the dead bodies of only such persons as are sup- posed 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 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
245
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
1 PLACE OF DE riddlesup
County
State ..
Mass
Registered No ....
1673
City or Town.
Chelmsford
No.
Westland
St.,. .. Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
AnnaJosephine Lo Boul
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abogey
Length of residence ia city or town where death occurred
14
years
months
St.,.
Ward.
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
days.
How long in U. S., if of foreign birth ?
years
months
days
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH
(Month)
-1919
(Day)
(Year)
17 HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from Jan , 1919
1918
.. , to
that I last saw her alive on
Free-
19 19.
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at 10 C .m.
The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows :
(Paghet -
mos ..
ds.
(duration) /2 yrs
CONTRIBUTORY .. ( SECONDARY)
(duration)
... yrs h.
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 ?
no.
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
(Signed)
Autumn G. Scolonia
, M.D.
( Address)
10 -
5
Date.
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
DATE OF BURIAL
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
Riverside No Chelmsford0 A 6 1919.
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
20 UNDERTAKER
ADDRESS W. Herben Blates Lowell
21 I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stao-
BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued Edward J. Robbing
Offic .position.
Town Click
....
Date of issoe Oct 1 1919 No
Permit
1-6-'19. 150,000.
3 SEX
4 COLOR OR RACE
Female A frite
5a If married, widowedpor divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of Coucher
(a) Trade, profession, or
particular kind of work .....
(b) Geoera! nature of industry,
business, or establishment io
which employed ( or employer) ..
(c) Name of employer
(State or country)
11 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City) ..
(State or country)
13 BIRTHPLACE OF
PARENTS
MOTHER (City).
(State or country)
Informant
in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. See
If STILLBORN, enter that fact here
If STILLBORN, state period of uterogestation.
.mos.
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
Manied
1. Boise
6 DATE OF BIRTH
( Monthy
(Day)
11 1837.
(Year)
7 AGE 82 Years 5 Months 4 Days
If LESS than
1 day, ........ hrs.
or ........ min.
OCCUPATION OF DECEASED at home
9 BIRTHPLACE (City)
Vermont
10 NAME OF
FATHER
Pascal Hatch
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Manenvie Hazen
(Vermont)
14 andrew & Boise
(Address )
Chelubbord
15 Oct. 6, 1911 Edward J. Bobbing
Filed
1 ....
(Month) (Day) (Year)
REGISTRAR
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
FORM R-301
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. should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
( If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
......
-1919
REVISED UNIIFO LATES STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
[Approved by U. S. Census and American Public Health Association]
Statement of occupation. - Precisc 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 enginecr, Civilengineer, Stationary fireman, etc. Butin many cases, especially in industrial employments, it is necessary to know (a) tho 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) Forcman, (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 nisEASE 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 havo no occupation whatever, write None.
Statement of cause of death. - Namc, first, the DISEASE CAUSING NEATH (the primary affection with respect to time and causation), using always the same accepted term for the same discase. 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 ncoplasms); Measles; Whooping cough; Chronic 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 .; 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 ascertaincd as the cause. Always qualify all diseases resulting from childbirth or miscarriage, as "PUER- PERAL septicemia," "PUERPERAL peritonitis," ctc.
State causo 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, cellulitis, 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 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, furuish for registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the best of his knowledge and belicf the name of the deceased, his supposed agc, 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. 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 licu 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 tho 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 thereafterfurnish 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 havo 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 needcd.
(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 traumatismi (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.
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
1-6-'19. 150,000.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
246
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County
Middlesex
State.
Mass
2Registered No ..
81
City or Town ...
no Chelmsford No. 10, Dunstable Road
St.
.Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
Ernest Picard
( If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
(a) Residence. No. 10 Dunstable Rd.
(Usual place of abode)
St ...
Ward.
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
Length of resideoce in city or towo wbere death occurred
years
3
mooths
days.
How loog io U. S., if of foreign birth ?
years
months
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
M
4 COLOR OR RACE
W
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)
(Year)
7 AGE
1
Years
Months
2 Days
If STILLBORN, enter that fact bere
If STILLBORN, state period of uterogestation.
... mos.
If LESS than
1 day, ........ brs.
or ........ min.
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED (a) Trade, profession, or particular kind of work ... (h) Geoeral nature of industry, business, or establishment in which employed ( or employer).
(c) Name of employer
9 BIRTHPLACE (City)
nashua
(State or country)
M. Hampshire.
10 NAME OF
Oscar Picard
FATHER
11 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
......
It Pierre Montigny
(State or country)
Canada
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Clara Lavoie
13 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
Marhua
(State or country)
M. 19 .
Date ..
(Month)
(Day)
12
11919
...
(Year)
14 Orear Pinard
Informant.
(Address)
10 Dunstable Rd.
15 Oct. 12, 1919 Edward & Robbins
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 . Edward Son Robbins
Official Com Click
Date of issue of permit. Oct. 12, 197 No.
Permit
position.
17 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from Def 1 th , 1919 to 00/ 11h , 1919 that I last saw him alive on oct 1ch , 1919 .... , and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at 2.30 am The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows : tubercular Meningitis
(duration)
2
... 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 ? to Date of
Was there an autopsy ?
70
What test confirmed diagnosis ?...
(Sigoed)
Frank & PL
M.D.
(Adress) Fort Checeny Ind Man
DATE OF BURIAL Oct 13 1919
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
20 UNDERTAKER
Joseph albert
ADDRESS
171 aileen 11
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH
(MonthY
Out
12
1919
(Day)
(Year)
april
21
1918
PARENTS
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
It Joseph
Chelmsford
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 bo sufficient, e. g., Farmer or Planter, Physician, Compositor, Architect, Locomotive engincer, 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 needed. As examples: (a) Spinner, (b) Cotton mill; (a) Salesman, (b) Grocery; (a) Foreman, (b) Automobile factory. The material worked on mnay 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 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 (rctired, 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: 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 need 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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