Deaths 1919, Part 9

Author: Chelmsford (Mass.)
Publication date: 1919
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 188


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(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), thermai, 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,


....


......


(City or town)


1 PLACE OF DEATH


County middlesey


State massachusetts


Registered No. 27


Township


Chelmsford


or Village north


... or


City No ١٠٠٠ ..... ...


St.,


.Ward


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


2 FULL NAME


(a) Residence. No.


(Usual place of abode)


Lengis of residence in city or town where death occurred


years


months


days.


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


years


months


days


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX


male


4 COLOR OR RACE


white


5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR


DIVORCED (write the word)


Single


5a If married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of


(01) WIFE of


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


april 14,1119.


7 AGE Years


Months


Days


If LESS than


1 day, ........ hrs.


or ........ min.


8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED


(a) Trade, profession, or particular kind of work ..


(b) General nature of industry, business, or establishment in wbicb employed (or employer) (c) Name of employer


9 BIRTHPLACE (city or town) ..


1) north Chelmsford


(State or country) massachusetts !


10 NAME OF FATHER my Thomas mas Semaberie Was there an autopsy ?.


PARENTS


11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (city or town) ensey Island (State or country) England


12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER Cheating machen


13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (city or town) Jersey Jaland (State or country) England


14 Informant Thomas Limaaurier


(Address) north Chelmlad


15


File ahr, 15, 2019 Edward J. Robbins REGISTRAR


.....


16 DATE OF DEATH (month, day, and year) abril 14 1919


17


I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from


annual 14


........ ,


19


.. , to


., 1919


that I last saw h .............. alive on


.......... , 19.


and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at .... m. The CAUSE OF DEATH* was as follows :


still born


(duration)


... 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 ?


Date of.


What test confirmed diagnosis ?


4 (Signed).


Fred EJamey


M.D.


15,19/9 (Address) North Chlustand


* State the DISEASE CAUSING DEATHI, or in deathis 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 Riverside Courtes


DATE OF BURIAL Ahl 15 2019


20 UNDERTAKER


Hames sistem upstof Center


ADDRESS Via Chelmsford


of certificate.


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


,92


.....


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


St.,


...........


.Ward.


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


......


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH 4. Sus and American "f" " Association]


, various pursuits ean 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 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. Carc should be taken to report spe- eifically 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- toneum, 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- eurrent) affection 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," "Shock," "Uremia," "Weakness," etc., when a definite disease ean 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


of "Contributory." (Recorrer . of cause of death annrow


Sions of chapter 24 of the neviseu 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 eircumstances unknown, as A person found dead, etc.


ADDITIONAL SPACE


FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS BY


PHYSICIAN.


R 15. 10-'18. 5,000.


FORM R-301


The Commmuralth of Massachusetts


STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS


28


Registered No.


St.,.


Ward


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


10 Lohn to M' Manoman


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


(a) Residence. No. (Usual place of abode)


Middlesex hurt chieti Stand


Ward.


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


Length nf residence ia city or town where death occurred


62


years


months


days.


How long in U. S., if of foreign hirth ? years


months days


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX 4 COLOR ORRACE male white


5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR DIVORCED (write the word)


Sa If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of (or) WIFE of


6 DATE OF BIRTH


(Month)


(Day)


( Year)


7 AGE 62 Years


Months


Days


If STILLBORN, enter that fact here


If STILLBORN, state period of uterogestation


..... mos.


8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED Post master


(a) Trade, profession, or particular kind of work. (b) Generai nature of industry, business, or establishment in which employed ( or employer )


mail Service


(c) Name nf employer Amelie States Department


9 BIRTHPLACE (City) (State or country)


mars


10 NAME OF FATHER


Tatted m'manomin


11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City). (State or country) Serland


12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER mary mc manus


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


14 Margaret Em manomin sestens


Inform (Address) midler St north Chebel ord


15 apr. 16 1919 Edmond 1. Bobbing Filed ahr (Month) (Day) (Year)


21 1 HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stan.


BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued. Edward & Rotting


19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL


DATE OF BURIAL


(Cemetery)


(City or town)


ADDRESS


20 UNDERTAKERO most Formalxtone Touch


Official Com Click position.


22 Date of issue of burial als, 16.19/19 or transit permit.


instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate.


10-'18. 100,000.


should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH


in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. See


PARENTS


Chelmsford


(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.


What test confirmed diagnosis ?


Simplan


(Signed)


M.D.


( Address).


Date aquil 15


1919


( Month)


(Day) .... (Year) 7


17 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from aquil 1 1919, to abril 15, 19/19


that I last saw h .... alive on abril 14, 1919.


and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at .. m. The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows :


If LESS than 1 day, ........ hrs. or ........ min. Cerebral Her auf


.(duration)


yrs ......


cmos 18 ds.


CONTRIBUTORY


(SECONDARY)


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


16 DATE OF DEATH ..


(Month)


15 1919


(Day) (


(Year)


MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING


N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of information


193


1 PLACE OF DEATH County /Middleary,


State mass


City or Town Chelmang No. middlesexet


2 FULL NAME


1859


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 he sufficient, e. g., Farmer or Planter, Physician, Compositor, Architect, Locamotive 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 husincss or industry, and therefore an additional line is provided for the latter statement; it should he used only when needed. As examples: (a) Spinner, (b) Cotton mill; (a) Salesman, (b) Gracery; (a) Foreman, (b) Autamobile factory. The material worked on may form part of the second statement. Never return "Lahorer," "Foreman," "Manager," "Dcalcr," etc., without more precise specification, as Day labarer, Farm laborer, Labarer - Coal mine, etc. Women at home, who are engaged in the duties of the house- hold only (not paid Hausekeepers who receive a definite salary), may be entered as Housewife, Hausework, or At home, and children, not gainfully employed, as At school or At home. Care should he taken to report spe- cifically the occupations of persons engaged in domestic service for wages, as Servant, Caak, Housemaid, etc. If the occupation has heen changed or given up on account of the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH, state occupation at heginning of illness. If retired from business, that fact may he 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- braspinal fever (the only definite synonym is "Epidemic cerchrospinal meningitis"); Diphtheria (avoid use of "Croup"); Typhaid fever (never report "Typhoid pncumonia"); Labar pneumonia; Branchopneumonia ("Pneumonia," unqualified, is indefinite); Tuberculosis of lungs, men- inges, peritoneum, etc., Carcinama, Sarcoma, etc., of .......... (name origin; "Cancer" is less definite; avoid use of "Tumor" for malignant neoplasms); Measles; Whaaping caugh; Chronic valvular heart disease; Chranic 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,""Dehility" ("Congenital,""Senile," etc.), "Dropsy,""Exhaustion,""Heart failure,""Hemorrhage,""Ina- nition," "Marasmus," "Old age," "Shock," "Uremia,""Weakness," etc., when a definite disease can he ascertained as the cause. Always qualify all diseases resulting from childhirth 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, 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, furnish for registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the hest of his knowledge and helicf the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the discase of which he died [defined so that it can he classified under the international classification of causes of death], where contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive hy 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 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 thereafterfurnish for registration any other necessary information which can he 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. 1


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 hy violence. - Revised Laws, Chap. 24, Sec. 8.


RULES OF PRACTICE


The fulfilment of the purpose of these laws calls for the ohservance 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 disahled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury, have dicd without recent medical attendance or whose physician is ahsent 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.


FORM R-301


in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. See 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


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts


,94


OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS


1 PLACE OF DEATH


County.


City or Town


To chiliford


No.


Stor


Rd


St.,


Ward


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


Olive Denault


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


(a) Residence. No.


( Usual place of abode)


Groton Road


St.,


Ward.


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


Leogtb of residence in city or town where death occorred


4 years


montbs


days.


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


35


years


months


days


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX


JEmale


4 COLOR OR RACE


White


5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR


DIVORCED (write the word)


Widowed


5a If married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of


(or) WIFE of


Francois O. Denault


6 DATE OF BIRTH


( Month)


(Day)


( Year)


7 AGE 84 Years 2 Months 1 4 Days


If STILLBORN, eoter that fact bere If STILLBORN, state period of uterogestation. .. mos.


If LESS than


1 day, ........ hrs.


or ........ min.


8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED (a) Trade, profession, or particular kind of work .. (h) Geoerai 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


Flavien Boucher


11 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City).


(State or country)


Canada


12 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Agnese Brassard


13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) ... (State or country) Canada-


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


16 DATE OF DEATH.


fylonth)


abril


21


1919


(Day)


(Year)


17 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from


19


to


,19.29


that I last saw h


alive on


.... . 19 19.


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


5 a.m.


The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows :


(duration)


yrs ..


Lhos ....... / .. 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 ?


What test confirmed diagnosis ?..


(Signed)


For Manay M.D.


(Address) ..


21


1919


Date.


(Month)


( Day)


....


(Year)


14 Pretance Gaudette


Informant.


(Address)


Frater Rx. No. Chalcenter


19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL


St. Joseph Eight Chiluns ford


(Cemetery)


(City or town)


DATE OF BURIAL Cfr. 23 2019


15 apr. 22, 1919 Edward . Robbing


(Month) (Day) (Year)


REGISTRAR


20 UNDERTAKER


a. archambault


ADDRESS


738


merkst


ires ,


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 for Jobbing


Official Jown Click


position.


22 Date of issue of burial or transit permit ..


als. 22, 1919


-


Canada.


PARENTS


10-'18. 100,000.


STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


State


Massi


Registered No.


29


2 FULL NAME


MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING


1835


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 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 engineer, Civilcngincer, 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 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 DEATH (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 "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, peritoncum, 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.


State cause for which surgical operation was undertaken.


(Recommendations on statement of cause of death approved by Com- inittee 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.




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