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FATHER
Thomas Traversy
FATHER (City) mill man
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
anna L'Paul
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) ....... (State or country) Man
15
Feb. 8,1919 Edward Rothny
Filed .
(Month) (Day) (Year)
REGISTRAR
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH.
fishmany 8
(Month)
(Day)
( Year)
(If non-resident give eity or town and State)
days How long in U. S., if of foreign birth? years
months
days
1919
1218
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
177
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
20 UNDERTAKER .T. I. McDorough
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, 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 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. 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 dicd; . . . no such permit shall be issued until there shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, . .. a satisfactory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned 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 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 vio- lence, 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 furnislı for registration any other necessary infor- mation 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 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 injury or infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized discase, and those of persons found dead.
STATEMENT OF CAUSE OF DEATH
For VIOLENT DEATHS STATE MEANS OF INJURY and qualify as ACCIDENTAL, SUICIDAL, Or HOMICIDAL, or as probably such, if impossible to determine 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) should also be stated.
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
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 statoment 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,
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH OF NON-RESIDENT
(City or town)
1 PLACE OF DEATH
Registered No. . ............................
(Place of death)
Registered No ..
13
(Place of residence)
City or Town
N. Namures State Nost
.
St.,
Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
Mary Donohue
OMass
City or Town&ams Mayo
St.
Length of residence in city or towa where death occurred
13
years
11 months 26
days
How long in U. S., if of foreign birth?
years
months
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH (month, day, and year) Jill. 11 2019
17
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
July 1
1917
J.M. 10 2019
10. 1919
that least saw h MY alive on.
-
and that death occurred, on the date stated above,
12-20 .m. The CAUSE OF DEATH" was as follows:
* State the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH, or in deaths from VIOLENT CAUSES, state (1) MEANS AND NATURE OF INJURY, and (2) whether ACCIDENTAL, SUICIDAL, or HOMICIDAL. (Sce reverse side for additional space.)
Gerebral Hemorrhage
.. (duration) ...
............. yrs ................. mos .......
ds.
CONTRIBUTORY
(SECONDARY)
(duration)
.. yrs.
4mos ..
.ds.
18 Where was disease contracted if not at place of death ?
Did an operation precede death ?.
Date of.
Was there an autopsy ?...
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
(Signed)
W. A. Bryan
2/12. 1919 (Address)
Hathorne Masa.
..
M.D.
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
St Patrick's Zowill
DATE OF BURIAL
Jieb. 14- 2019
15 Filed 1124. 14 1919 Julius Prale Filed.
Registrar of city or town where death occurred
Registrar of city or town where deceased resided
20 UNDERTAKER
O'Connell & Tray
ADDRESS Lowell
-
9 BIRTHPLACE (city or town). (State or country) Ireland
10 NAME OF FATHER Sagan
PARENTS
11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (city or town).
(State or country)
ruland
12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER Margarit Hogan
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (city or town)
(State or country)
JAlland
14 Gustis Rache
Informant
( Address)
Hathorne Masa
of certificate.
Ycars
Months Day's
If LESS than
1 day, ........ brs.
or ....... min.
If STILLBORN, enter that fact here
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or
particular kind of work.
House wife
(h) General nature of industry, business, or establishment in which employed (or employer ) ..........
...... (c) Name of employer
3 SEX
Female
4 COLOR OR RACE
white
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
married
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
Philip Donohue
6 DATE OF BIRTH (month, day, and year) 1869
7 AGE
(If in the Argy or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
(a) Residence.
State
(Usual place of abode)
State
Mask
178
Banners
County
W VICED UNITED ST! ADN CERTIFICATE OF DER :" -Ith Association)
vi- he
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) Forcman, (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 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 serviee for wages, as Servant, Cook, Housemaid, ete. 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 respcet 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); 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 deatlı), 29 ds .; Broncho- 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 age," "Shock," "Uremia," "Weakness," etc., when a definite disease can be ascertained as the cause. Always qualify all discases 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
following conditions must be referred to the medical Examiners:
1. Deaths following injury or violenec, as Burns, Falls, Drowning, Gas poisoning, Suicide, Homicide, etc.
2. Deaths supposedly caused by violence, as Criminal abortion, Poisoning, Starvation, Suffocation, Exposure, ete.
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 eircumstanees unknown, as A person found dead, etc.
ADDITIONAL SPACE
FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS BY
PHYSICIAN.
R 303. 6-'18. 50,000.
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
2 FULL NAME 3 SEX female 7 AGE Years 86 PARENTS . Informant (Address) of certificate. 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, 15 N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of information should be (h) Geoera! oature of industry, business, or establisliment in which employed (or employer). (c) Name of employer
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
179 Chelmsford (City of town)
Registered No. 14
Township
Chelmsford
or Village.
or
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
Mary Livermore Batemay Tyler
(Ifin the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
(a) Residence.
No Chelmsford
(Usual place of abodc)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
years
mooths
days.
How long io U. S., if of foreign hirth ?
years
mooths
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
4 COLOR OR RACE
white
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
Medoro
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(01) WIFE of
Senge S. Tyler
6 DATE OF BIRTH (month, day, and year)
Attel 5 1833
Days
7
If LESS than
I day, ........ hrs.
or ........ min.
Epidemie Influenza
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or
particular kind of work.
at home
9 BIRTHPLACE (city or town) ...
) ......
Merrimack
(State or country)
n.H.
10 NAME OF FATHER
Tom Hay
11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (city or town) Birston
(State or country)
12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER Emily a Hammon 2-14, 19/9 (Address)
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (city or town) Newton (State or country)
14 Mino Emily Tyler
Daughter
Chalmitad
File Feb. 15 1919 Edward Robbins
L REGISTRAR
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH (month, day, and year) A6 12. 1919.
17
I HEREBY CERTIFY, ThanI attended deceased from
Jan 24
1919, to Jan, 30, 1919
that I last saw her alive on
Jan, 30
, 1919
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at ...... ... m. The CAUSE OF DEATH* was as follows :
asthemina - Scicity
.(duration)
.... yrs .....
......... mof ...
.. ds.
.........
CONTRIBUTORY
(SECONDARY)
.(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 ?
no,
(Signed).
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
Seabona
M.D.
Chelang ford, mais.
* State the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH, or in deaths 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
Lowell Cem .
DATE OF BURIAL Feb 15 1919
20 UNDERTAKER
Walter Perham
ADDRESS
Chelmsford
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County
Mary
State
Mass
City.
.No.
St., ...........
.Ward
-Ste,
.Ward.
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
Months
0
-
...
DET NED UNITED STATES STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH [Approved by U. S. Census and American Public Health Asseco]
Statement of occupation. - Precise statement of oceuna tion is very important, so that the relative healthful- various pursuits can be known. The question appues 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 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, ete. If the oeeupation has been changed or given up on aeeount 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"); Diphthcria (avoid use of "Croup"); Typhoid fever (never report "Typhoid pneumonia"); Lobar pneumonia; Bronchopneumonia ("Pneumonia," unquali- fied, is indefinite); Tuberculosis of lungs, meninges, peri- toneum, etc., Carcinoma, Sarcoma, ete., 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) affeetion need not be stated unless important. Example : Measles (disease causing death), 29 ds .; Broncho- 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 age," "Shoek," "Uremia,"" "Weakness," cte., when a definite disease can be aseertained as the cause. Always qualify all diseases resulting from child- birth or miscarriage, as "PUERPERAL septicemia," "PUER- PERAL peritonitis," ete. 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. ª 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
under the head of "Contributory." (Recommendations '^tement of eause of death approved by Committee ·elature of the American Medical Association.) the Medical Examiners. - Under the provi- n, of the Revised Laws deaths under the
following conditions must be referred to the Medical Examiners:
1. Deaths following injury or violenee, as Burns, Falls, Drowning, Gas poisoning, Suicide, Homicide, ete.
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 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, 5,000.
CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very N. B .- Every item of information should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should stato important. See instructions on back of certificate.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
1 PLACE OF DEATH
Chelmsford
(No.
Gorham
St. :
Ward)
Little
? FULL NAME
[If married or divorced woman or widow (
give maiden name, also name of husband.]
@RESIDENCE
East Chelmsford Masa
180
(City or town.)
[If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number.]
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
male
4 COLOR OR RACE
white
6 SINGLE
MARRIED.
WIDOWED,
OR DIVORCED.
(Write the word)
Widowed
...
(Month)
(Day)
( Year)
$ DATE OF BIRTH
Crua
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
7 AGE
If LESS than
1 day ......... hrs.
or ........ min. ?
B OCCUPATION
(a) Trade, profession, or
particular kind of work
Retired
(b) General nature of industry. business, or establishment in which employed (or employer)
9 BIRTHPLACE
(State or country)
England
PARENTS
11 BIRTHPLACE
OF FATHER
(State or country)
England
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Rebecca Home
13 BIRTHPLACE
OF MOTHER
(State or country)
England
"THE ABOVE IS TRUE TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE
(Informant)
arthur Suttle
East Chelmsford mass (Address)
Filed Heb. 18, 1919 Edward 1, Rolfune
REGISTRAFT
....
1
9146-15
1919
... .
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at.
.m.
that I last saw halive on
The CAUSEOF
DEATH* wes as follows :
Выво-рисптогии
..... ..... (Duration)
.....
....... Yrs.
....
mos.
Contributory ........
(SECONDARY)
(Signed)
76617
191.
.....
(Address)
Lowile
........ .....
* If death followed injury or violence the certificate of death must be made out by the Medical Examiner.
In the
18 LENGTH OF RESIDENCE (FOR HOSPITALS, INSTITUTIONS, TRANSIENTS, OR
RECENT RESIDENTS).
At place
of death
yrs.
mos.
ds.
State ....
............ yrs.
............ mos.
.........
ds .............
Where was disease contracted, If not at place of death ?.
Former or usual residence ...... ..........
19 PLACE OF BURIAL OR REMOVAL
DATE OF BURIAL
Edson Cemetery Feb 19
.....
1919
20 UNDERTAKER
Soseph Kein. 96 Branch of
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD.
-George
Lu
....
Registered No.
15
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
1ª DATE OF DEATH
16
1919
I HEREBY CERTIFY that I attended deceased from
to=
715/ 15
1919
84 yrs. 7
mos.
13 ds
18.34
17
10 NAME OF
FATHER
Thomas cuttle
Statement of occupation. - Precise statement of occu- pation 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, Compositor, Architect, Loco- motive 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) Sales- man, (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 household only (not paid House- keepers who receive a definite salary), may be entered as Housewife, Housework, or At home, and children, not gain- fully employed, as At school or At home. Care should be taken to report specifically 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 occu- pation whatever, write None.
Statement of cause of death. - Name, first, the DIS- EASE CAUSING DEATH (the primary affection with respect to time and causation), using always the same accepted term for the same diseasc. Examples: Cerebro-spinal fever (the only definite synonym is "Epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis"); Diphtheria (avoid usc of "Croup") ; Typhoid fever (never rc- port "Typhoid pneumonia"); Lobar pneumonia; Broncho- pneumonia ("Pneumonia," unqualified, is indefinite); Tuber-
Measles; Whooping cough; Chronie valvular heart disease; Chronie interstitial nephritis, etc. The contributory (second- ary or intercurrent) affection need not be stated unless im- portant. Example: Measles (disease causing death), 29 ds .; Broncho-pneumonia (secondary), 10 ds. Never report mere symptoms or terminal conditions, such as "Asthenia," "An- aemia" (merely symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Collapse," "Coma," "Convulsions," "Debility" ("Congenital," "Senilc," etc.);"L;opsy," "Exhaustion," "Heart failure," "Hacmorrhage," "Inanition," "Marasmus,". "Old age," "Shock," "Uraemia," "Weakness," etc., when a definite disease can be ascertained as the cause. Always qualify all diseases resulting from childbirth or miscarriage, as "PUER- PERAL septicaemia," "PUERPERAL peritonitis," etc. State cause for which surgical operation was undertaken.
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