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4 COLOR OR RACE
vhite
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
June 27
( Month)
(Day)
( Year)
Years
Months
1
Days
16
Ii STILLBORN, enter that fact here
If LESS than
1 day, ........ hrs.
er ....... min.
Cholera Infantum
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or
particolar kind of work.
none
9 BIRTHPLACE (City)
Lowell
(State or country)
10 NAME OF
FATHER
Jhhn E. Wrigley
11 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City).
(State or country) New Brunswick
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Mary A. Dollard
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country)
Lowell
Date
aug.
13
1920.
( Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
St. Patrick's
Lovell
DATE OF BURIAL Aug 14,20
(Cemetcry)
(City or town)
20 UNDERTAKER
John L. McDonovan
174
ADDRESS Gorham
21 I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stan- dard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued a: Edward J. Robbins
Offic position
Town Click
Date of issue of permit aug 14, 1929 No
Permit
3.'20. 20,000.
15 aus 14, 1920. Edward & Robbing
(Month (Day) (Year)
REGISTRAR
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
aug. 13
1920
(Day)
(Year)
17
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
aug. 6
19.26, to.
aug, 13
1920
1920
that I last saw him
alive on
aug. 12
1920
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at
2
a
.m.
The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows :
(duration)
.yrs ..
mos.
7
ds.
CONTRIBUTORY
( SECONDARY)
(duration)
... yrs .....
mos ..
ds.
18 Where was disease contracted
if not at place of death ?
Did an operation precede death ?
no.
Date of.
X
Was there an autopsy ?
no
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
(Signed)
amasa Howard
M.D.
(Address).
Chelmsford Mass.
1
14 John E. Wrigley
(Address)
Chelmsford Ct. Ness.
60
Second St.
St.,
Ward.
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
16 DATE OF DEATH.
(Month)
A
L
STATES STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
[Approved by U. S. Census and American Public Health Assori-
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 be sufficient, e. g., Farmer or Planter, Physician, Compositor, Architect, Locomotive engineer, 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 necded. 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 entercd 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 doraestic service for wages, as Servant, Cook, Housemaid, etc. It the occupation has been changed or given up on account of the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH, state occupation at beginning of illness. If retired from business, that fact may be 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 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.
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.
COMMONWE,
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 discase 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 tho 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 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.
FORM R-301
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
61
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
1 PLACE OF Bruddluce
County
Chy of Town.
East
Chelmsford
St ... .. Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or justitution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
(a) Residence.
No.
East Chelmsfords.
(Usual place of abode)
Length of residence in city or town where death occorred
25
years
months
days.
How long in U. S., if of foreign birth ?
25
years
mooths
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
Female White
4 COLOR OR RACE
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 56 Years
Months
Days
If LESS than
If STILLBORN, enter that fact here
I day, ........ hrs.
If STILLBORN, state period of uterogestatioo. -mos.
or ........ min.
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED (a) Trade, profession, or particular kind of work (b) Geoeral oature ofindustry, business, or establishment in which employed ( or employer).
at Home
(c) Name of employer
9 BIRTHPLACE (City) (State or country)
duland
PARENTS
10 NAME OF
FATHER
Timothy bryan
11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City ) ... (State or country)
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Bridget Lauden
13 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
freland
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH
(Month
1L
(Day)
(Year)
17
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
June 29
120.
to ..
20
Aug 16
19
19
that I last saw h
alive on
Aug 15
20
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at.
1210 %
m.
The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows :
Chemie nechali
.(duration)
yrs ......
3
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)
9. 1. Mechan M.D.
(Address).
228 Ir author
Date
(Month)
(Day)
1920
(Year)
19 PLACE OF BUNDL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL It Patrick Lowell
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
DATE OF BURIAL
aug 18/20
ADDRESS
15 Quy. 17, 1920 Edward J. Rolfune
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 an Edward J. Rochung
Official Town Click. position.
Date of issue of permit Que, 17,1920 No
Permit
1-6-'19. 150,000.
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH 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
14 many Informant .. (Address) East Fla
you
Filed (Month)(Day) (Year)
20 UNDERTAKER
Higgins Bros 415 Lawrenif
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Registered No.
00
Hannah Ceryan
()in the Army or Nay of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.) Ward.
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
20
....
duland
REVISED UNITED STATES STANDARD CEKTirithis v.
[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 he 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, Locomotive engincer, Civil engincer, 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 he 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 servico 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.
1
:
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 he 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- 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 -NNWEALTH 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 helicf the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died [defined so that it can bo 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. . . . - Reviscd 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 he, 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 disahled 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.
FORM R-301
The Commomuralth of Massachusetts STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
62
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County.
Masx,
State
Ma.s.s.
Registered No.
51
St. .Ward
(If death oceurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
Robert Franklin Smith
(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
(a) Residence.
No. Chelmsford
St.
Ward.
( If non-resident give eity or town and State)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
10
years
months
days.
How long in U. S., if of foreign birth ?
years
months
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
Male
4 COLOR OR RACE
white
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
married
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
for) WIFE of
Cora B. Smith
6 DATE OF BIRTH
Aug. 15 1864
( Month)
(Day)
(Year)
7 AGE 56
Years
C
Months
5
Days
If STILLBORN, enter that fact here
If STILLBORN, state period of nterogestation
.... mos.
If LESS than
1 day, ........ hrs.
or ........ min.
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or
particular kind of work.
stone cutter
(b) General nature ofindustry,
business, or establishment in
which employed ( or employer)
(retired)
(c) Name of employer
CONTRIBUTORY
( SECONDARY)
(duration)
.. yrs ยป
mos ...........
.ds.
18 Where was disease centracted
if not at place of death ?
Did an operation precede death ?
no.
Date of.
X
Was there an autopsy ?
200
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
(Signed)
amara Stoward
M.D.
(Address)
Chelmsford Mars
Date ....
august
20
1920
( Month )
( Day)
(Year)
TO PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
Pine Ridge
Chelmsford
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
DATE OF BURIAL Aug. 21/120.
20 UNDERTAKER Walter Perham
ADDRESS Chelmsford
Permit
21 I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stan-
BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued Edward & Rolling
Official
position
Jon Click
Date of issue of permit aug. 20, 1920 .No
.......
-
(duration)
1 yrs.
.. mos.
ds.
9 BIRTHPLACE (City)
Leeds
(State or country)
N. Y.
10 NAME OF
FATHER
George, Smith
PARENTS
11 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
Leeds
(State or country)
N. Y.
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
not known
13 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
N. Y. State
(State or country)
14
Informant
Mrs. R. F. Smith
(Address)
Chelmsford Wass.
15
any 20, 1920
Edward & Rolling
(Month(Day) ( Year)
REGISTRAR
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH
(Month)
august
20
1920
Year)
(Day)
17
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
to
now.
1919
aug-20
1920.
that I last saw h Lm alive on
aug: 19
19 .. 24 0,
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at
1 a.m.
The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows :
byrrhosis of Swan.
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH 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
1-6-'19. 150,000.
--
( Usual place of abode)
City or Town
Chelmsford
No.
REVISED UNITED STATES STANDARD ICATE OF DEATH
[Approved by U. S. Census and American Public Heanu Association]
Statement of occupation. - Precise statement of oceupation 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 engineer, Civilengineer, Stationary fireman, ete. 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," "Dcaler," 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 Ilousckeepers who reeeive 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 oceupations of persons engaged in domestic service 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 indicated thus: Farmer (retired, 6 yrs.). For persons who have no occupation whatever, write None.
Statement of eause of death. - Name, first, the DISEASE CAUSING DEATII (the primary affection with respect to time and eausation), using always the same accepted term for the same disease. Examples: Cere- brospinal fever (the only definite synonym is "Epidemie eercbrospinal 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, ete., 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, ete. 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 terminai conditions, such as "Asthenia," "Anemia" (merely symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Col- lapse,""Coma,""Convulsions," "Debility" ("Congenital,""Senile," ete.), "Dropsy,""Exhaustion,""Heart failure," "Hemorrhage,""Ina- nition," "Marasmus," "Old age," "Shock," "Uremia,""Weakness," ete., when a definite disease can be ascertained as the eause. Always qualify all diseases resulting from childbirth or miscarriage, as "PUER- PERAL septicemia," "PUERPERAL peritonitis," etc.
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