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Medical examiners shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of only such persons as are supposed to have died by violence. - Gen. Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 6.
. . . He shall in all cases certify to the town clerk or registrar in the place where the deceased died his name and residence, if known; other- wise a description as full as may be, with the cause and manner of death. -Gen. Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 7.
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfilment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observanee 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
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
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
140 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County.
City or & Le Chicheluck
State
Registered No ....
55 Ward
(If death occurred in a hospitalor institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
Sidney N Steven
2 FULL NAME
(a) Residence.
No
( Usual place of abode)
Length of residence in city or town wbere death occurred
20
years
months
days.
How long in U. S., if of foreign birth ?
years
months
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
4 COLOR OR RACE
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of (or) WIFE of
6 DATE OF BIRTH Clef lett 1540 ( Month)
(Day)
(Year)
7 AGE
80 Years/ C
Months 28 Days
If LESS than
If STILLBORN, enter that fact here
If STILLBORN, state period of uterogestatioo.
mos.
I day, ........ hrs. pr ........ min.
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED (a) Trade, profession, or particular kiod of work (b) General nature of industry, business, or establishment in which employed (or employer)
(c) Name of employer
CONTRIBUTORY ( SECONOARY)
(duration)
.yrs N.
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)
(Address). Forth Charme Jons 3 1621
Date
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
14
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, FREMATION, OR REMOVAL DATE OF BURIAL
(Cemetery) (City or town)
ADDRESS
15
Filed' (Month) (Day) (Year)
REGISTRAR
si : Justin E. Marcoficial Poron Click Ca
of permit Si 9/3/21
Permit
No ..
21 [ HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stan- dard certificate of death was Gled with me BEFORE the burial or traosit permit was issued
1-6-'19. 150,000.
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
19.26 to ..
1921.
that I last saw him
alive on
Sepa
3
192)
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at.
.מ
The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows: Interstate Hefahrts
(duration)
.yrs.
...........
mos ......
.......
.ds.
9 BIRTHPLACE (CityX (State or country)
10 NAME OF
FATHER
Mathe ... Steven
PARENTS
11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City ) (State or country)
12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER
. M.D.
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) ... (State or country)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Olho 3Nel 1921 (Day) (Year)
16 DATE OF DEATH
(Month)
"if in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.) Ward.
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
KameraMadie
Informaf. (Address) bart although 1
.... . SSACHUSETTS --
GOVERNING THE
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 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. 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) Forcman, (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 domestie 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, G 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 "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 ....... ... (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" (mercly symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Col- lapse," "Coma,""Convulsions,""Dcbility" ("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.
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, furnislı 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 certificato 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 cxaminers 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 hedside 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 hy 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
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 Commonwealth of Massachusetts
MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City of "loww)
57
1 PLACE OF DEATH
(ISSUED UNDER THE I'ROVISIONS OF REVISED LAWS, CHAPTER 24)
County
Middlesex
State
Mars .
No
All Marking Road
St.,
Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
City or Town
Educa R. OFindia Ford
2 FULL NAME
Old Nashua Road
St.,.
Ward,
(If in the Arn y or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc. )
( If non-resident give city or town and State)
Length of residence 'n city or town where death occurred
15 years
m'enths
days
How long in !I. S., if of foreign hirth?
years
months
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
4 COLOR OR RACE
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of (or) WIFE of
Budalord
1
6 DATE OF BIRTH
(Month) /
(Mày)
20 1468 (Year)
7 AGE 53 Years
Months
X3
Days
19
- If LESS than 1 day, ...... brs. or ....... min.
IS STILLBORN, enter that fact here
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED (a) Trade, profession, or particular kind of work (b) Name of employer
ED a Home
9 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
r. y.
10 NAME OF
FATHER
11 BIRTHPLACE OF Channaturale Falle FATHER (City) (State or country)
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
ani Smitte
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country)
Puttedum
14 Informant. (Address )
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, or REMOVAL
DATE OF BURIAL IL 211921
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
(Month) (Day) (Year)
20 UNDERTAKER
ADDRESS
Burial issued by .......
er mi Justin L. Moore
Official position
(See reverse side for description for unknown person)
18 . Where was injury sustained if not at place of death ?. Thousand front
(Signed)
M.D.
(Address)
5th out, Cuidale rek to har
Medical Examiner for
Sikt
19
1921.
Date
( Months
(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: Las ciucura of literus with
Metastasis in tivas, hat disabled be recognized diviare.
(Year)
16 DATE OF DEATH
(Month)
Sipt
19
1921
(Dáy)
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
10-'20. 10,000.
15 Sept 21 1921 Justice & moord (Mouth) (Day) ( Year) REGISTRAR
abron Check 22 Date of 9/21/21 Permit No ..
Registered No.
Chelmsford
(a) Residence. No.
( Usual place of abode)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PARENTS
Mécani
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 dicd {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 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 tlie clerk or registrar may require. - Reviscd Laws, Chap. 78, Sec. 38.
Medical examiners shall, in all cases, certify to the eity 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 ealls for the observance of the following rules of practice:
(1) Attending physicians will eertify 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 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- eope while under the influence of ether administered as a surgical anesthetic." "Fracture of the skull with associated internal injury sustained under eircumstances 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 eircumstances 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
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
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
1420 No. Chelmsford (Cityer Town)/
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County
Middlesex
State
Share
Registered No ..
St.,
Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME John Le Marinel Pr
(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
(a) Residence.
( Usnal place of abode)
Ro. Groton Road.
St.
Ward.
Length of resideoce in city or towo where death occurred
40
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)
sidoweds
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
Amelia Le Marinel
6 DATE OF BIRTH
Dec .. ( Month)
8. 1840 (Day) (Year)
7 AGE
80
Years
Months
9
Days
18
If STILLBORN, eoter that fact here
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or
particular kind of work
(b) Name of employer
Retireds
9 BIRTHPLACE (City) (State or country) Englands
10 NAME OF
FATHER
John C. Se Mearinel.
11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City). Englands
(State or country)
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) . (State or country) England.
14 Walter N. Se Marines Informant.
(Address )
Nor Chelmsford Mares
15 Sept 271921 Justin R. Mogao Healeys
(Month) (Day) (Year)
REGISTRAR
21 I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stand dard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the boria! or traosit permit was issued
ne Justi & Moon
Official position.
Pour Check Date of
9/27/21
of permit
2P .m. The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows :
If LESS thao 1 day, ........ his. or ....... mio. Tra ina Pectoris
.(duration) 3
yrs ..
.mos.
ds.
CONTRIBUTORY
arterio Salernes
(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 ? Full Ellamay
(Signed)
M.D.
(Address).
norof Chileefter
Date Lift- 26 1921 ( Year)
Month)
(Day)
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL Masa Riverside No. Chelmsford (Cemetery) (City of town)
DATE OF BURIAL Sept, 28.1921,
ADDRESS Lowell, lars
Permit No ......... ....
80
6-'20. 20,000.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH.
Seht
26.
1921.
() ear)
(Month)
(Day)
17 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from shl-23 1921 Sife. 26 to .. ,19. 21.
that I last saw heat
alive on
Life 26
1921.
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
57.58
City OF Town No Chelmsford No. Groton Road
1920 1840
PARENTS
Statement of occupation. - Precise statement of oceupation is very important, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits ean be known. The question applies to each and every person, irrespective of age. For many occupations a single word or term on the first line will be sufficient, e. g., Farmer or Planter, Physician, Compositor, Architect, Locomotive engineer, Civilengineer, Stationary fircman, etc. But in many eases, 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 Hlousekcepers 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 domestie 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 (retircd, 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 eausation), using always the same accepted term for the same disease. Examples: Cere- brospinal fever (the only definite synonym is "Epidemie cerebrospinal meningitis"); Diphtheria (avoid use of "Croup"); Typhoid fever (never report "Typhoid pneumonia"); Lobar pneumonia; Bronchopneumonia ("Pneumonia," unqualified, is indefinite); Tuberculosis of lungs, men- inges, peritoneum, etc., Carcinoma, Sarcoma, etc., of .......... (name origin; "Caneer" 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 terminal conditions, such as "Asthenia," "Anemia" (mercly symptomatie), "Atrophy," "Col- lapse,""Coma,""Convulsions,""Debility" ("Congenital,""Senile," ete.), "Dropsy,""Exhaustion,""Heart failure,""Hemorrhage,""Ina- nition," "Marasmus," "Old age," "Shock," "Uremia,""Weakness," otc., 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.
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