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under the head of "Contributory." (Recommen on statement of cause of death approved by Committe 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 violenec, as Criminal abortion, Poisoning, Starvation, Suffocation, Exposure, ete.
3. Sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, as A death upon the strect, or onc supposed to be duc lo Alcoholism, etc.
4. Deaths under circumstances unknown, as A person found dead, etc.
ADDITIONAL
SPACE
FOR FURTHER
STATEMENTS BY
PHYSICIAN.
5
1
-
.
R 303. G-'18. 50,000.
Name, Rachael -- P .-- Greene
Place of death,
--
Nashua,-N.
-- IL
No. Kinsley Street.
Ward,
Village,
How long a resident,
Previous residence, Chelmsford,Hass.
If death occurred at an institution give name of same St -- Joseph -- Hospital
How long an inmate,
2 .: 300kg
Where from,
Date of death :
Year,152], MonthApr
Day,20.
Age : Years, .
Months, Days, _3
Place of birth,
2
Date of birth :
Year, 1914
Month, Apr Day, 17
Sex, ____.
Color, ___ I __.
Married, Single,
Widowed or
Divorced.
Occupation,
Cause of death,
Leute Nephritis
Duration,
Contributing cause,
Duration,
W
Name of father, Karl ___ Groene
Maiden name of motherpcheGl_P Fletcher
Birthplace of father, Lowell, Maga.
Birthplace of mother,
Chelaisford,Mass
Occupation of father,.autoTechanic 3913
[ Record continued over]
25
FORM
1013
Deceased was wife of
Widow of
Name of physician (or other person) reporting said
death,
C.T. Conodon, M.D.
P. O. Address,
Place of interment,
Chelmsford, Maso.
Date of interment,
April 22, 1921.
Name of cemetery,
Forefathers
Undertaker
Holter Perhom
P. O. Address,
Chelmsford, Mess.
The State of new Hampshire
I hereby certify that the above death record is correct to the best of my knowledge and belief,
Clerk of
Machua, N. H.
April 22, 1921.
3913
Filed May 17, 1921, Aneetal & More voron check
FORM R-301
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
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS"
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County
City or Town Chelmsford
No ...
State
1631
100hans
St ...
.Ward
(If death oeeurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
1631 Gorham
St.,
.Ward.
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
Length of residence ia city or town where death occurred
years
6
months
days.
How long in U. S., if of foreign hirth ?
500
years
months
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
Xemuch
4 COLOR OR RACE
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
Widoway
5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of (or) WIFE of
6 DATE OF BIRTH
BIRTH may
Month)
(Day)
(Year)
7 AGE 68
Years
Months
Days
If LESS than 1 day, ........ hrs. or ........ min.
If STILLBORN, enter that fact here
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED (a) Trade, profession, or particular kind of work (h) Name of employer
9 BIRTHPLACE (City) (State or country)
10 NAME OF
FATHER
PARENTS
11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City ) (State or country) 2
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Wollen Chaine
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country}
14
Informant. (Address )
15
Filed (Month; (Day) (Year)
REGISTRAR
21 | HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stan- dard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued
pela Guchi Rinconci
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH
May
3
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
17 19 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from Uhr 30 1921, € o Que vil ...
that I last saw h.
alive on
apr 30
196/
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at
.m.
The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows : .
Damiana ( lenne literi)
(duration) Fracture
mos ds.
CONTRIBUTORY
(SECONDARY)
(duration)
.. yrs ....
8 mo .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)
Boyle M.D.
Dale. 1 (Month) (Day)
1521
(Year)
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
20 UNDERTAKER
ADDRESS
Pour check
Date of of permit ... May 51921 No
Permit
6-'20. 20,000.
The Conunomwealth of Massachusetts
114
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City or Town)
Registered No.
5029
avvale
DATE OF BURIAL My 6/21
[If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, ete. )
(a) Residence.
No.
( Usual place of abode)
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
3 .1853
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, Civil engineer, Stationary fireman, ctc. 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 sccond statement. Never return "Laborer," "Foreman," "Manager," "Dealer," etc., without more precise specification, as Day laborer, Farm laborer, Laborer - Coal minc, 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 disease. Examples: Ccre- 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 discase; 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," "Urcmia,""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," etc.
State cause for which surgical operation was undertaken.
(Recommendations on statement of cause of death approved by Com- mittce 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.
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, Sccs. 10 and 1, as amended by Acts of 1910, Chap. 822.
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 sald 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 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 caused directly or indirectly by traumatisni (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-303 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(ISSUED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF REVISED LAWS, CHAPTER 24)
State War.
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.)
St.,. Ward,
( If non-resident give city or town and State)
months
days
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH.
(Month)
(Day)
1921 (Year)
17
I
HEREBY CERTIFY that I have investigated the
death of the person abovenamed and that the CAUSE AND MANNER
theroof are as follows :
Chronic Valvular If rash Drieaus.
found dead in neighbors yard.
(Sce reverse side for description for unknown person)
18 Where was injury sustained-
if not at place, of death?
Thorax to Fuck
M.D.
(Address)
84 luidaltrey 5, Lowell
Medical Examiner for
May
14
1921.
Date
( Month)
(Day )
( Year)
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, or REMOVAL DATE OF BURIAL Wilmot N. M. Mas 14
(Cemetery) (City or town)
(Month)/Day) (Year)
29 UNDERTAKER
A Wenbeck Lewell
22 Date of May 16,1921 issue
Permit No
10-20. 10,000.
N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of information 9 BIRTHPLACE (City) (State or country)
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
County.
2 FULL NAME
3 SEX
Male
6 DATE OF BIRTH
7 AGE
Years
10 NAME OF
FATHER
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
PARENTS
Informant
(Address)
should be carefully supplied. MEDICAL EXAMINERS should state CAUSE AND MANNER OF DEATH in plain terms,
63
F Jenner Durgun
1
Withnet W.14
14 Chary & Durani
15 Jury 16 1921 Justin h. neroce ( Monthy (Day) ( Year) REGISTRAR Transportation 21 Busial permit Quetice h. noOfficial issued by.
PositionVorou Cleek
115
(City or 'lowL) 31
30
Registered No
.. Ward
City or Town ...
George a. Surgiu
(a) Residence.
No
1544 yorku
months
days
How long in !I. S., if of foreign birth?
years
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
1 PLACE OF DEATH
BReleusford
(Usual place of abode)
Length of residence in city or town where death occorred
years
4 COLOR OR RĄCE
Mire
( Mongh)
(Day)
Months
Days
10
if STILLBORN, enter that fact bere
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or
particular kind of work.
11 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City).
(State or country)
1
13 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City )
(State or country)
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
(b) Name of employer
Welt
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED OR
VORCED (write the word)
Inanied
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE off
May L Duram
July 14 1847
(Year)
If LESS than 1 day ....... hrs. or ....... min.
(Signed)
14
Forhow!
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 lieu 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 whom the permit is so given and the physician who certifies to the cause of death shall thercafter 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 sup- posed to have come to their death by violence. - Revised Laws, Chap. 24, Sec. 8.
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfilment of the purpose of these laws calls for he 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 cer tify 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 f.om 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 femur 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- cope while under the influence of ether administered as a surgical anæesthetic." "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
FORM R-301
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
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
116
32
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County
Medex
State
Mass
(City or Town)
Registered No.
32-31
City or Town
Chelmsford
No.
St ..
.. Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
John Nelson Maxwell
(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
(a) Residence.
No.
Me Larney Square
.St.,
Ward.
(If non-resident give eity or town and State)
Length of residence ia city or town wbere death occurred
/
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
(or) WIFE of
Sarah @ maywell
6 DATE OF BIRTH
( Month)
(Day)
( Year)
7 AGE
61
Years
Months
7
Days
8
If LESS than
1 day, ........ b:s.
Or ....... min.
If STILLBORN, enter that fact bere
OCCUPATION O
(a) Trade, profession, or
particular kind of work
(b) Name of employer
Bleachery operator
9 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Пит Впитаноговь
PARENTS
11 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
new Bremsung
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Catherine Wry
13 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
new Brunswick
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 confirmed diagnosigo
Antony Savona
(Signed)
M.D.
(Address).
Chicunford
Date.
May 16 / 1921.
(Month) ?
(Day)
(Year)
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
Lonsdale En Lonsdale R.D.
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
DATE OF BURIAL
May 17 1921
15 May 16, 192 matin & neome Filed .. (Monty) (Day) (Year)) REGISTRAR
20 UNDERTAKER
Natur Penhora
ADDRESS
Chelmsford
21 ! HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stan- dard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issue
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
May
15 1921.
16 DATE OF DEATH
(Month),
(Day)
(Year)
17
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased fo
man. 21 .1920
xo
19
that I last saw h Mies alive on
Mar. 21
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at
11.450.
.. m.
The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows : Died Suddenly - arterio Scherncia
Probably Cerebral harmonhage.
.....
(duration)
.. yrs ..
mos ..
ds.
CONTRIBUTORY
(SECONDARY)
(duration)
.......... yrs ..
.............
mos ..
Board
Viaèite
14 Fired & Maquell
Informant.
(Address)
Chelmsford Han.
8-'20. 35,000.
position
al Form Check Dane May 16192/No Permit
Rockport
10 NAME OF
FATHER
Sidon Manuel
7 1859
19
20
( Usual place of abode)
STANDARD CERTIFICATE
OF DEATH
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., Former or Plonter, Physicion, 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 needed. As examples: (0) Spinner, (b) Cotton mill; (o) Solesman, (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 Doy laborer, Farm laborer,Loborer - Cool 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, Housemoid, etc. If the occupation has been changed or given up on account of tho 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- brospinol 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, peritoneum, etc., Carcinoma, Sarcoma, etc., of .. ....
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