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FORM R-303
should be carefully supplied. MEDICAL EXAMINERS should state CAUSE AND MANNER OF DEATH in plain terms, N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of information for extracts from the laws relative to the return of certificates of death. so that it may be properly classified under the International Classification of Causes of Death. See reverse side
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
The Commomoralth of Massachusetts
MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City or Town)
1 PLACE OF DEATH
(ISSUED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF REVISED LAWS, CHAPTER 24)
County
7/1. dolares
State
wars
1
Registered No.
54
St ....
Ward
2 FULL NAME
Edward Voussou.
(If death oceurred 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.)
(a) Residence.
No.
(Usual place of abode)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
13
years
months
days
How long io U. S., if of foreign birth?
years
months
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
m
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 19 Years
8 Months
27 Days
If LESS thao 1 day, ...... hrs. or ....... mio.
If STILLBORN, eoter that fact here
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or
U.J. Cartridge &
particular kiod of work
(h) Name of employer
9 BIRTHPLACE (City).
tupper Lake
(State or country)
10 NAME OF
FATHER
alfred Boisson
11 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City).
(State or country)
Je Gere les Becauseti
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Emelie Bela , que
771alface
13 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
0 2.
Date
(Month)
(Day)
( Year)
DATE OF BURIAL
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, or REMOVAL St Joseph's chelmsford Left 8-20 (Cemetery)/ (City or town) (Month) (Day) (Year)
20 UNDERTAKER
2. albert
ADDRESS
171 Cuker
21 Burial permit
issued by ..........
Edward ). Robbins Official position
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
1920
16 DATE OF DEATH.
(Month)
(Day)
( Year)
17
I HEREBY CERTIFY that I have investigated the
death of the person above-named and that the CAUSE AND MANNER
thereof are as follows:
1
2
1
(See reverse side for description for unknown person)
18 Where was injury sustained
(Signed)
Totale
M.D.
(Address)
84 lui dall su Showed
5th Niet, Medalisexta
Medical Examiner for.
Je ..
6
1920
14 alfred Carecon
Informant
110 Parete
(Address)
15 Self, 8 1920 Edward S. Robbery Filed (Month) (Day) (Year)
REGISTRAR
Com Clark
22 Date of Self 8.120 issue
Permit No.
65
Cheluxford
City or Town
No.
110 Your
St.,.
Ward,
(If non-resident give eity or town and State)
8,
1900
PARENTS
3->20. 10,000.
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
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 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 state- ment containing the facts required by law to be re- turned and recorded, which . . . shall be accompanied by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law, or in licu thereof a certificate as herein- after provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, the chairman of the board of health, if a physician, or any physician employed by said board or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make such certificate as is required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical examiner only shall make such certificate. ... The person to whoin the permit is so given and the physician who certifies to the cause of death shall thereafter furnish for registration any other necessary information which can be obtained as to the deceased, or as to the manner or cause of the death, which the clerk or registrar may require. - Revised Laws, Chap. 78, See. 88.
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 ouly such persons as are sup- posed to have come to their death by violence. - Revised Laws, Chap. 24, See. 8.
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfilment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observance of the following rules of practice:
(1) Attending physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons to whom they have given bedside care during a last illness from disease unrelated to any form of injury.
(2) Board of Health physicians will certify to such deaths 'only as those of persons who, though disabled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose physician is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.
(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths supposably due to injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or indirectly by traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and by the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, but also deaths from disease resulting from in- jury or infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, and those of persons found dead.
STATEMENT OF CAUSE OF DEATH
Medical Examiners in certifying to a death will state the cause and manner thereof, and will specify: (1) Under cause, the nature of an injury and of its consequences; and (2) under manner, the mode of its production together with the circumstances when these are known. For example: "Compound fracture of the femnur with ensuing septicemia (gas bacillus) caused by a steam railway accident." "Pistol shot wound of the chest with associated hemorrhage, homi- cidal." "Asphyxiation by suspension, suicidal." "Syn- eope while under the influence of ether administered as a surgical anæsthetic." "Fracture of the skull with associated internal injury sustained under circumstances unknown."
If investigation shows the death to have been due to dis- ease, specify: (1) Under cause, its known or presumable nature; and (2) under manner, indicate the circumstances leading to medico-legal inquiry. For example: "Hemorrhage spontaneous, of the brain (basal ganglia) (found dead in bed)." "Heart disease, presumably coronary sclerosis. (Sudden death.)"
DESCRIPTION (for unknown person)
NOTICE TO UNDERTAKERS : No embalming fluid, or any substitute therefor, shall be injected into the body of any person supposed to have come to his death by violence, until a permit in writing, signed by the Medical Examiner, has first been obtained. - Revised Laws, Chap. 24, Sec. 20.
THIS CERTIFICATE CONSTITUTES SUCH PERMIT
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FORM R-301
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
State. mass
Registered No.
St ...
Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
George Wyfanion
( If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
(a) Residence. No ..
( Usual place of abode)
9 years
months
days.
Hnw Inng in U. S., if nf foreign birth ?
years
months days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
4 COLOR OR RACE
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
marruch
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
Charlottea Hamon
6 DATE OF BIRTH
u 28 -1878
( Month)
(Day)
(Year)
Years
42
Months
4
Days
9
if LESS than
1 day, ........ hrs.
If STILLBORN, enter that fact here
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, nr
particular kind of work
merchaun
Lowell
9 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
mass
11 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City).
Powell
(State or country)
mars
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Sarah E. Barnard
13 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
maniz
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Sept.
6
1920.
(Year)
17
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
4
20, to dept. 6
, 19 20
19
that I last saw h 444t. alive on
Sept 6
19.
20
500
m.
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at
The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows : Endocarditis
cr ........ min. Thrombose (Venas)
of right les-
Several years-
.yrs .... ds.
CONTRIBUTORY.
(SECONDARY)
imbolism
(duration)
a few minuten
mos ....... ds.
18 Where was disease contracted if not at place of death ?
Did an operation precede death ?
no.
Date of.
Was there an autopsy ?
200.
What test configpted diagnosis ?...
Aulus G. Scoloria
(Signed).
M.D. ,
(Address)
Date
Just. 7
.. ,
1920.
( Month)
"Day)
(Year)
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
DATE OF BURIAL
Edson
Forwell
....
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
1920
20 UNDERTAKER WoLuber Blake
ADDRESS Lowell.
Permit
21 I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stan- dard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial nr transit permit was issned Edward J. Robbing
Official Com click.
position
Date nf issue nf permit Self 8/ 10/20 N. .......
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
3 SEX 7 AGE 10 NAME OF FATHER PARENTS Filed N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of information instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate. in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. See should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH (h) Name of employer
11-13-'19. 50,000.
14 Wlmon L. Harmon
Informant
(Address)
Chulashard mass
15
Salt. 8, 1920 Edward & Robbing
(Month) (Day) (Year)
REGISTRAR
66 Chelmsford (City or Towy' 155
1 PLACE OF DEATH-
County.
Chelmsford
City or Town
No ..
2 FULL NAME
St.
Ward.
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
16 DATE OF DEATH
(Month)
(Day)
........ (duration)
Probably cerebral
REVISED UNITED STATES STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
[Approved by U. S. Census and American Public Health Association!
1
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., Former or Planter, Physician, Compositor, Architect, Locomotive engineer, Civilengineer, Stotionory fireman, etc. Butin many cases, especially in industrial employments, it is necessary to know (o) 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 Servont, 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: Former (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- brospinol 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 valvulor heart disease; Chronic interstitial nephritis, etc. The contributory (secondary or inter- current) affection nced not be stated unless important. Example: Meosles (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 discase can be ascertained as the cause. Always qualify all diseases resulting from childbirth or miscarriage, as "PUER- PERAL septicemia," "PUERPERAL peritonitis," ctc.
-
1
1
1
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 best of his knowledge and belief the name of the deccascd, his supposed age, the disease of which he died [defincd 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 Lows, Chap. 29, Secs. 10 and 1, as amended by Acts of 1910, Chop. 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 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 Lows, 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 Lows, 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.
1
1
1
FORM R-301
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
67
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County
City or Town
Chickenford
No ..
St. Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number) Peterson
2 FULL NAME
(a) Residence.
To Mark Chelmsford
St.,
.. Ward.
(Usual place of abode)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
ycars
months
days.
How long in U. S., if of foreign birth ?
years
months days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
Hercole
4 COLOR OR RACE
white
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of (or) WIFE of -
6 DATE OF BIRTH
( Month)
(Day)
(Year)
7 AGE
0
Years
0
Months
O
Days
If STILLBORN, enter that fact here
If STILLBORN, state period of uterogestation
.mos.
or ........ min.
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED (a) Trade, profession, er particular kind of work (b) General nature of industry, business, or establishment in wbich employed ( or employer)
(c) Name of employer
9 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
10 NAME OF
FATHER
David J. Peterson
PARENTS
11 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City ).
(State or country)
Schaden
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Johanna Larsson
13 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Sweden
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH
Spl.18
19,20
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
17 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from 241-13, 1020 , to Sf1.14 20
that I last saw h
alive on
24-13
19
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at.
1-3, 9 m.
The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows :
General debility
Cause not knowmy
mos .. as.
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)
Fred & Varney
M.D.
(Address)
Date
( Month)
(Dây)
(Year)
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
14 David Je Peterane
Informant.
(Address )
Treat Chefmeford
(Cemetery) (City or town)
20 UNDERTAKER
Walter Perten
ADDRESS Cheleastund
Permit
21 I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stan-
BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued Edward S. Robbing
Official position
Com Clerk Date of issue of permit. Sept. 14, 1920 No.
DATE OF BURIAL Sept 14/ 1920
15 Selt. 14 1920 Gaward & Robbing
Filed (Month) (Day)' ( Year)
REGISTRAR
1-6-'19. 150,000.
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of information instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate. in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. See should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH Weare.
State.
Registered No.
56
{If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc. )
( If non-resident give city or town and State)
13 1920
If LESS than
1 day, 4.2 hrs.
.(duration)
.yrs.
12 hours
14
19 h6
West Chelcontrol
R: SED 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 be sufficient, e. g., Former or Plonter, Physician, Compositor, Architect, Locomotive engineer, Civil engineer, Stotionory firemon, ctc. But in many cases, especially in industrial employments, it is necessary to know (o) 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: (0) Spinner, (b) Cotton mill; (o) Salesmon, (b) Grocery; (o) Foreman, (b) Automobile foctory. The material worked on may form part of the second statement. Never retarn-'&Borer," "Forcan, " "Manager," ""Dealer," ett., without more precise specification, as Doy loborer, Form loborer, Loborer - Coal mine, etc. Woinen 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 Servont, 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: Former (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- brospinol fever (the only definite synonym is "Epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis"); Diphtheria (avoid use of "Croup"); Typhoid fever (ncver report "Typhoid pneumonia"); Lobar pneumonia; Bronchopncumonia ("Pneumonia," unqualified, is indefinite); Tuberculosis of lungs, men- inges, peritoneum, etc., Corcinomo, Sorcoma, etc., of ..... .. (name origin; "Cancer" is less definite; avoid use of "Tumor" for malignant neoplasms); Measles; Whooping cough; Chronic volvulor heart disease; Chronic interstitiol nephritis, etc. The contributory (secondary or inter- eurrent) affection need not he stated unless important. Example: Meosles (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 causc. 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.
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