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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 tho 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 causcd 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
1 PLACE OF DEATH County. City 2 FULL NAME 3 SEX make 4 COLOR OR RACE white 6 DATE OF BIRTH (month, day, and year) 7 AGE 56 Years Months 8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED (a) Trade, profession, or (b) General nature of industry, business, or establishment in which employed (or employer) (c) Name of employer 9 BIRTHPLACE (city or town) (Statc or country) (State or country) PARENTS 14 Informant (Address) carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, of certificate. N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of information should be so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. See instructions on back particular kind of work Garage
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City or town)
Township
Chelmsford
No.
St ... Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of strect and number)
James Stratton Byan
(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
(a) Residence. No. Weattend Rd.
St.,
Ward.
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
(Usual place of abodc)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
years
months
days.
How long in U. S., if of foreign birth ?
years
months
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
married
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(01 ) WIFE of
Louise Feed By own
apr, 26 1864
24 Days
If LESS than
I day, ........ hrs.
or ........ min.
automation
10 NAME OF FATHER Senge Cotis Bram
11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (city or town)
Boston
12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER Mary a Cake
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (city or town)
(State or country)
maro.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH (month, day, and year) June 19th 1920
17
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
Dec. 31 sx
19 .. 70, to ..
game 19th
19 20
that I last saw h.Am
alive on
19 20
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at
7
a.m.
The CAUSE OF DEATH* was as follows :
Carcinoma of stomach
and Liver
(duration)
.yrs ..
6
... mos ..
.. ds.
CONTRIBUTORY
(SECONDARY)
(duration)
.yrs.
..........
... mos.
ds.
18 Where was disease contracted
if not at place of death?
X
Did an operation precede death ?
Ces- Date of.
Mich. 24 Th 20.
Was there an autopsy ?.
no.
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
inspection during
6 (Signed)
operation gastro-enteros
19, 1920 (Address)
Amara Howard M. 5.
Chelmsford Mars.
* State the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH, or in deaths frout VIOLENT CAUSES. state (1) MEANS AND NATURE OF INJURY, and (2) whether ACCIDENTAL, SUICIDAL, or HOMICIDAL. (Sce reverse side for additional space.)
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
DATE OF BURIAL
Hart Pour Cen So Cheligend flere 22 1920
20 UNDERTAKER
Walter Perla
ADDRESS
Chaletund.
15 Filed June 22, 1920 Edward & Robbana REGISTRAR
State.
Registered No.
or
or Village
Shirley
June 18
REVISED UNITED STATES STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH [Approved by U. S. Census and American Public Health Association]
Statement of occupation. --- Precise statement of occupa- tion is very important, so that the 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, 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) Colton 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, 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- catcd 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, ctc., 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 .; 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 causc. 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
under the head of "Contributory." (Recommendations on statement of cause of death approved by Committec on Nomenclature of the American Medical Association.)
Cases for the Medical Examiners. - Under the provi- sions of chapter 24 of the Revised Laws deaths under the following conditions must be referred to the Medical Examiners:
1. Deaths following injury or violence, as Burns, Falls, Drowning, Gas poisoning, Suicide, Homicide, etc.
2. Deaths supposedly caused by violence, as Criminal abortion, Poisoning, Starvation, Suffocation, Exposure, etc.
3. Sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, as A death upon the street, or one supposed to be due to Alcoholism, etc.
4. Deaths under circumstances unknown, as A person found dead, etc.
1
ADDITIONAL SPACE
FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS BY
PHYSICIAN.
R 15. 10-'18. 5,000.
FORM R-301
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County.
Middle
City or Town
2 FULL NAME
(a) Residence.
( Usual place of abode)
Length of residence ia city or town where death occurred
2
years
months
3 SEX
mals
4 COLOR OR RACE
Muts
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
6 DATE OF BIRTH
(Day)
( Month)
7 AGE
Years
Months
Days
67
If STILLBORN, enter that fact here
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or
particular kind of work
Machenat
9 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Cheland
10 NAME OF
FATHER
John malna
11 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER ( City ) ..
Chefand
(State or country)
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Mary Gibbons
13 BIRTHPLACE OF
PARENTS
MOTHER (City)
Jufand
(State or country)
should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH
15
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
(b) Name of employer
U.S.
Cartudas .
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED morite the word)
Aidand
Margaret Vi Mi Jemping
1853
( Year)
if LESS than 1 day ......... brs. er ........ min.
14 Mes John & Harington Daughter Informant .......
(Address)
Pincetom Ur both Chelmsford
File
June 26 1926 Edward SoPortes
(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 ne Edward J Robbins
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
June
20
1920
(Year)
17
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
June 20
1920, co June
20
1920 that I last saw him alive on 25 1920 and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at .m.
The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows : Cerebrali Hemorrhage
(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 ?
Date of.
Was there an autopsy ?
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
(Signed)
Frank 5 Phillips.
M.D.
(Address).
North Chelnes Land
Date
( Month)
(Day)
1920
(Year)
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
If Pating Center, Tueres
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
DATE OF BURIAL
Juni2 19
19 20
ADDRESS
324 Mayget St
Official position
Com Click
Date of issne of permit June 26, 1920
Permit
11.13-'19. 50,000.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF, DEATH
15 Mars
Relevo ford (ity or Town)
34
Registered No ...
Princeton Nt. Forth Cheluo for
Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
John & Malonus
(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
Princeton St. Inth Chelica fond St.
Ward.
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
days.
How long in U. S., if of foreign birth ? C
years
months
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
-
.......
State
No
Mass
20 UNDERTAKER
26
16 DATE OF DEATH.
(Month)
(Day)
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 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, Locomotive engineer, Civilengineer, Stationary fireman, etc. Butin many cases, especially in industrial employments, it is necessary to know (a) the kind of work and also (b) the nature of the business or industry, and therefore an additional line is provided for the latter statement; it should be used only when needed. As examples: (a) Spinner, (b) Cotton mill; (a) Salesman, (b) Grocery; (a) Foreman, (b) Automobile factory. The material worked on may form part of the second statement. Never return "Laborer," "Forcman," "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 Housekcepers 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 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 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: Mcasles (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- 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 C ONWEALTH 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 best of his knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died [defined so that it can be classified under the international classification of causes of death], where contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive by the physician, and the date of his death. . . . - Revised Laws, Chap. 29, Secs. 10 and 1, as amended by Acts of 1910, Chap. 322.
No undertaker or other person shall bury a human body . . . until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent, . . . or . . from the clerk of the city or town in which the person died; . . . no such permit shall be issued until 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. - Revised Laws, Chap. 78, Sec. 38.
Medical examiners shall, in all cases, certify to the city or town clerk or to the city registrar in the place where the deceased died, his name and residence, if known, otherwise a description of such person as full as may be, with the cause and manner of his death, and shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of only such persons as are supposed to have come to their death by violence. - Revised Laws, Chap. 24, Sec. 8.
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfilment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observance of the following rules of practice:
(1) Attending physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons to whom they have given bedside care during a last illness from disease unrelated to any form of injury.
(2) Board of Health Physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons who, though disabled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose physician is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.
(3) Medical examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths sup- posably due to injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or indirectly by traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and by the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following 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
1 PLACE OF DEATH
Franklin
County
......
City or Town
Giel
(a) Residence.
State.
mars.
(Usual place of abode)
Length of residence io city or town where death occurred
Fears
3
mooths
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
Female
4 COLOR OR RACE
white
Years
Months
27Days
7 AGE
67
If STILLBORN, enter that fact bere
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or
House wife
particular kiod of work
(b) General oature of iodustry,
. business, or establishmeot in
which employed (or employer)
(c) Name of employer
9 BIRTHPLACE (city or town)
Belfast
10 NAME OF FATHER
Win, Brown
'11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (city or town)
(State or country)
maine
PARENTS
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (city or town)
(State or country)
Maine
14
Informant
Jums W. S. YEager
( Address)
mt. Hermon
15
Fil
June 22, 1920 HEury B. Barton
of certificate.
carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms,
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
(State or country)
Iname
12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER Sarah Drinkwater
Registrar of city or town where death occorred Filed July 13, 1920 Odevar & J. Robbins Registrar of city or towo where deceased resided
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH (month, day, and year)
June 22
17
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
march 24
20
June 21
19
to.
20
.. ,
that I last saw h EV
alive on
June 21
19 20
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at
....... 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. (See reverse side for additional space.) Chronic Valvular heart
discuse
SENEval .. (duration). yrs. ......
CONTRIBUTORY
Broken compensation
(SECONDARY)
(duration)
3
mos. ............... ds.
yrs ...
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)
a L Newton
M.D.
2 2. 19 20 (Address)
northfield mass.
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
Wood lawn. action center
DATE OF BURIAL
June 24
1920
ADDRESS
.
20 UNDERTAKER
SEo. N. Kidder
46
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH OF NON-RESIDENT
Gill
(City or town)
Registered No. (Place of death)
Registered No.
3435
(Place of residence) St., Ward
2 FULL NAME
Nettie 7. Wheeler
No.
(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.)
City or Town Helmstore
No.
St.
days
How long io U. S., if of foreign birth?
years
months
days
1920
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
Lincoln E. Wheeler
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
married
6 DATE OF BIRTH (month, day, and year) May 25 1853
If LESS thao
I day, ........ hrs.
or ....... Mio.
mass.
State
mass.
REVISED UNITED STATES STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH [Approved by U. S. Census and American Public Health Association]
Statement of occupation. - Precise statement of occupa- tion is very important, so that the 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, c. g., Farmer or Planter, Physician, Compos- itor, Architcet, 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) Groecry; (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 hioine, 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 sehool 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 lias 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 wlio liave no occupation whatever, write None.
Statement of cause of death .- Namc, first, the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH (the primary affection with respect to tiinc and causation), using always the same accepted term for the same disease. Examples: Cerebrospinal fever (thic 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_
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