Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1916-1918, Part 137

Author: Winthrop (Mass.)
Publication date: 1916
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"Foreman," "Manager," "Dealer," etc., without more precise specification, as Day laborer, Farm laborer, Laborer -Coal mine, etc. Women at home, who are engaged in the duties of the household only (not paid Housekeepers who receive a definite salary), may be entered as Housewife, Housework, or At home, and eliildren, 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 indi- eated thus: Farmer (retired, 6 yrs.). For persons who have no occupation whatever, write None.


Statement of cause of death. - Name, first, the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH (the primary affection with respect to time and causation), using always the same accepted term for the same disease. Examples: Cerebrospinal fever (the only definite synonym is "Epidemie cerebrospinal inenin- gitis"); Diphtheria (avoid use of "Croup"); Typhoid fever (never report "Typhoid pneumonia"); Lobar pneumonia; Bronchopneumonia ("Pneumonia," unquali- fied, is indefinite); Tuberculosis of lungs, meninges, peri- toncum, 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- eurrent) affection need not be stated unless important. Example: Measles (disease causing death), 29 as .; Broncho- pneumonia (secondary), 10 ds. Never report mere symp- toins or terminal conditions, such as "Asthenia," "Ancmia" (merely symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Col- lapse," "Coma," "Convulsions,"""Debility" ("Con- genital," "Senile," etc.), "Dropsy," "Exhaustion," "Heart failure," "Hemorrhage," "Inanition," "Maras- mus," "Old age," "Shock," "" Uremia," "Weakness," ete., when a definite disease ean be ascertained as the cause. Always qualify all diseases resulting from child- birtli or miscarriage, as "PUERPERAL septicemia," "PUER- PERAL peritonitis," etc. State cause for which surgical operation was undertaken. For VIOLENT DEATHS STATE MEANS OF INJURY and qualify as ACCIDENTAL, SUICIDAL, or HOMICIDAL, or as probably such, if impossible to de- terinine definitely. Examples: Accidental drowning; Struck by railway train - accident; Revolver wound of head - homicide; Poisoned by carbolic acid - probably suicide. The nature of the injury, as fracture of skull,


under the head of "Contributory." (Recommendations on statement of cause of death approved by Committee on Nomenclature of the American Medical Association.)


Cases for the Medical Examiners. - Under the provi- sions of chapter 24 of the Revised Laws deaths under the following conditions must be referred to the Medical Examiners:


1. Deaths following injury or violence, as Burns, Falls Drowning, Gas poisoning, Suicide, Homicide, etc.


2. Deaths supposedly caused by violence, as Criminal abortion, Poisoning, Starvation, Suffocation, Exposure, etc.


3. Sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized discase, as A death upon the street, or one supposed to be due to Alcoholism, etc.


4. Deaths under circumstances unknown, as A person found dead, etc.


ADDITIONAL SPACE


FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS BY


PIIYSICIAN.


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts


STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


(City or town)


1 PLACE OF DEATH


County.


Suffolk


Township


Winthrop


.or Village.


.. or


City


No. 152.


(If death oceurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)


2 FULL NAME


Mildred & Rucola


(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)


(a) Residence. No. 1 2 funnits Ance. .St., ......... ... Ward.


(Usual place of abode)


Length of residence io city or town wbere death occorred


3


years


mooths


days.


How long io U. S., if of foreign birth ?


years


mooths


days


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX


4 COLOR OR RACE


W


5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR


DIVORCED (write the word)


manuel.


5a If married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of


(or) WIFE of


Sidney /s Vincolia


6 DATE OF BIRTH (month, day, and year)


5-25-1888


7 AGE


Years


30


Months


4


Days


14


If LESS than


I day, ........ hrs.


or ........ min.


8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED


(a) Trade, profession, or


particolar kind of work


Housewife


(b) Geoeral nature of indostry, business, or establishment in which employed (or employer) (c) Name of employer


9 BIRTHPLACE (city or town).


new york.


(State or country)


10 NAME OF FATHER


11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (city or town) (State or country)


12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER Hinkley


13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (city or town)


(State or country)


new york.


14


Informant


Sidney S. Lucali


(Address)


57 Summit av2.


15


Filed


Car 7, 19


REGISTRAR


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


16 DATE OF DEATH (month, day, and year)


10-5


1018.


17


I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from


Jeth, 28, 1918


to.


Och, 5.


.........


Och, 4.


18


that /I last saw h .. C.


alive on


19


,


and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at


m. The CAUSE OF DEATH* was as follows :


Dobar Primaria


CONTRIBUTORY


(SECONDARY)


(duration)


.yrs ................. mos ..


7


ds.


18 Where was disease contracted


if not at place of death?


Did an operation precede death ?


Date of.


-


Was there an autopsy ?.


200.


What test confirmed diagnosis ?


(Signed)


10/2. 19/1 (Address)


Binchute, Man.


. M.D.


* State the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH, or in deaths from VIOLENT CAUSES, state (1) MEANS AND NATURE OF INJURY, and (2) whether ACCIDENTAL, SUICIDAL, or HOMICIDAL. (See reverse side for additional space.)


19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL


Flewwood Cent


DATE OF BURIAL 10-8-2018


20 UNDERTAKER


I.C. Skaggs


ADDRESS


grinethiop


so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION Is very important. See instructions on back


of certificate.


N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of information should be


carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms,


Wenthuch


.State


Registered No.


.St.


........... .Ward


(If non-resident give city or town and State)


1 (duration)


.yrs .............


.mos ..


4


ds.


PARENTS


5,1918. REVISED UNITED STATES STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH [Approved by U. S. Census and American Public Health Association]


Statement of occupation. - Precise statement of occupa- tion is very important, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known. The question applies to each and every person, irrespective of age. For inany occupations a single word or terin on the first line will be sufficient, e. g., Farmer or Planter, Physician, Compos- itor, Architect, Locomotive cngincer, Civil engineer, Stationary fireman, etc. But in many cases, especially in industrial employments, it is necessary to know (a) the kind of work and also (b) the nature of the business or industry, and therefore an additional line is provided for the latter statement; it should be used only when needed. As examples: (a) Spinner, (b) Cotton mill; (a) Salesman, (b) Grocery; (a) Forcman, (b) Automobile factory. The ma- terial worked on may forin part of the second statement. Never return "Laborer," "Foreman," "Manager," "Dealer," etc., without more precise specification, as Day laborer, Farm laborer, Laborer - Coal mine, etc. Women at home, who are engaged in the duties of the household only (not paid Housekeepers who receive a definite salary), may be entered as Housewife, Housework, or At home, and children, not gainfully employed, as At school or At home. Care should be taken to report spe- cifically the occupations of persons engaged in domestic service for wages, as Servant, Cook, Housemaid, etc. 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 indi- cated thus: Farmer (retired, 6 yrs.). For persons who have no occupation whatever, write None.


Statement of cause of death .- Name, first, the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH (the primary affection with respect to time and causation), using always the same accepted term for the same disease. Examples: Cerebrospinal fever (the only definite synonym is "Epidemie cerebrospinal menin- gitis"); Diphtheria (avoid use of "Croup"); Typhoid fever (never report "Typhoid pneumonia"); Lobar pneumonia; Bronchopneumonia ("Pneumonia," unquali- fied, is indefinite); Tuberculosis of lungs, meninges, peri- toncum, etc., Carcinoma, Sarcoma, etc., of_


(name origin; "Cancer" is less definite; avoid use of "Tumor" for malignant neoplasms); Mcasles; 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 &s .; Broncho- pneumonia (secondary), 10 ds. Never report mere symp- toms or terminal conditions, such as "Asthenia," "Anemia" (merely symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Col- lapse," "Coma." "Convulsions,"" "Debility" (“Con- genital," "Senile," etc.), "Dropsy," "Exhaustion," "Heart failure," "Hemorrhage," "Inanition," "Maras- inus," "Old age," "Shock," "Uremia," "Weakness," etc., when a definite disease can be ascertained as the cause. Always qualify all diseases resulting from child- birth or miscarriage, as "PUERPERAL septicemia," "PUER- PERAL peritonitis," cte. State cause for which surgical operation was undertaken. For VIOLENT DEATHS STATE MEANS OF INJURY and qualify as ACCIDENTAL, SUICIDAL, or HOMICIDAL, or as probably such, if impossible to de- termine definitely. Examples: Accidental drowning; Struck by railway train - accident; Revolver wound of head - homicide; Poisoned by carbolic acid - probably suicide. The nature of the injury, as fracture of skull, and gonggggggggg la a consis telange) may be stato


under the head of "Contributory." (Recommendations on statement of cause of death approved by Committee on Nomenclature of the American Medical Association.)


Cases for the Medical Examiners. - Under the provi- sions of chapter 24 of the Revised Laws deaths under the following conditions must be referred to the Medical Examiners:


1. Deaths following injury or violence, as Burns, Falls Drowning, Gas poisoning, Suicide, Homicide, etc.


2. Deaths supposedly caused by violence, as Crimina. abortion, Poisoning, Starvation, Suffocation, Exposure, cte.


3. Sudden deatlıs of persons not disabled by recognized disease, as A death upon the street, or one supposed to be due to Alcoholism, etc.


4. Deaths under circumstances unknown, as A person found dead, etc.


ADDITIONAL SPACE


FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS BY


PHYSICIAN.


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


Winthrop


..........


(City or town)


State


Mass


Registered No ..


or Village


or


No Somerset Are


St.,


Ward


(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number )


2 FULL NAME Ella Frances (O' Connell) Killan


(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


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


16 DATE OF DEATH (month, day, and year)


Och. ? ,


15 / 8.


17


I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from


to.


Sept. 26.


, 19/8


Det. 5., 1918.


that I last saw h ....


alive on


Och, 5


19.0 8


and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at


4a. .m. The CAUSE OF DEATH* was as follows :


Diabetes


Indef


.(duration)


yrs.


.mos.


ds.


CONTRIBUTORY


(SECONDARY)


Influenza


(duration)


.... yrs ...


.. mos.


10


ds.


18 Where was disease contracted


if not at place of death ?


Did an operation precede death ?


no Date of.


Was there an autopsy ?.


310.


What test confirmed diagnosis ?


Clinical


(Signed)


, 19/& (Address)


* State the DISEASE CAUSING DEATII, or in deaths from VIOLENT CAUSES, state (1) MEANS AND NATURE OF INJURY, and (2) whether ACCIDENTAL, SUICIDAL, or HOMICIDAL. (See reverse side for additional space.)


19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL


DATE OF BURIAL


Oct,8 18


19


20 UNDERTAKER


. D'maley


ADDRESS


REGISTRAR


1 PLACE OF DEATH


County


Suffolk


Township


Winthrop


City


(a) Residence.


No. 8 0somerset Ave


(Usual place of abode)


Length of residence in city or town wbere death occurred


years


3 SEX


4 COLOR OR RACE


Female


White


Married


5a If married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of


(or) WIFE of William


Killam


7 AGE


Years


Months


Days


36


I


5


(a) Trade, profession, or


At Home


particular kind of work


(b) General nature of industry,


business, or establishment in


which employed (or employer)


(c) Name of employer


9 BIRTHPLACE (city or town).


Brighton


10 NAME OF FATHER James


11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (eity or town).


(State or country)


Nova Scotia


12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER


Agnes Edwards


PARENTS


13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (eity or town).


(State or country)


Nova Scotia


14


Informant


William J. Killar


(Address)


80 Somerset Ava


of certificate.


15


Filed


1, 19


N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of information should be


carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms,


so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. See instructions on back


(State or country)


mass


5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR


DIVORCED (write the word)


6 DATE OF BIRTH (month, day, and year) Sont I, 1822


If LESS than 1 day, ........ hrs. or ........ min.


8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED A


months


days.


How long in U. S., if of foreign birth ?


years


M.D.


REVISED UNITED STATES STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


[Approved by U. S. Census and American Public Health Association]


Statement of occupation. - Precise statement of occupa- tion is very important, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits 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, Compos- itor, Architect, Locomotive engineer, Civil cngincer, 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 ma- terial worked on may form part of the second statement. Never return "Laborer,"


"Foreman," "Manager," "Dealer," etc., without more precise specification, as Day laborer, Farm laborer, Laborer - Coul mine, etc. Women at home, who are engaged in the duties of the household only (not paid Housekeepers who receive a definite salary), may be entered as Housewife, Housework, or At home, and children, not gainfully employed, as At school or At homc. 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 DEATII, state occupation at beginning of illness. If retired from business, that fact may be indi- cated thus: Farmer (retired, 6 yrs.). For persons who have no occupation whatever, write None.


Statement of cause of death .- Name, first, the DISEASE CAUSING DEATHI (the primary affection with respect to time and causation), using always the same accepted term for the same disease. Examples: Cerebrospinal fevcr (the ouly definite synonym is "Epidemic cerebrospinal menin- gitis"); Diphtheria (avoid use of "Croup"); Typhoid fever (never report "Typhoid pneumonia"); Lobar pneumonia; Bronchopneumonia ("Pneumonia," unquali- fied, is indefinite); Tuberculosis of lungs, meninges, peri- toncum, etc., Carcinoma, Sarcoma, etc., of.


(name origin; "Cancer" is less definite; avoid use of "Tumor" for malignant neoplasmns); Mcasles; Whooping cough; Chronic valvular heart discase; Chronic interstitial ucphritis, etc. The contributory (secondary or inter- current) affection need not be stated unless important. Example: Measles (disease causing death), 29 ds .; Broncho- pneumonia (secondary), 10 ds. Never report niere symp- toms or terminal conditions, such as "Asthenia," "Anemia" (merely symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Col- lapse," "Coma," "Convulsions,"" "Debility" ("Con- genital," "Senile," etc.), "Dropsy," "Exhaustion," "Heart failure," "Hemorrhage," "Inanition," "Maras- mus," "Old age," "Shock," "Uremia," "Weakness," ete., when a definite disease can be ascertained as the a cause. Always qualify all diseases resulting from eltild- birth or miscarriage, as "PUERPERAL septicemia," "PUER- PERAL peritonitis," etc. State cause for which surgical *operation was undertaken. For VIOLENT DEATHS STATE MEANS OF INJURY and qualify as ACCIDENTAL, SUICIDAL, or HOMICIDAL, or as probably suclı, if impossible to de- termine definitely. Examples: Accidental drowning; Struck by railway train - accident; Revolver wound of head - homicide; Poisoned by carbolic acid - probably suicide. The nature of the injury, as fracture of skull, and consequences (e. g., sepsis, tetanus) may be stated


under the head of "Contributory." (Recommendations on statement of cause of death approved by Committee on Nomenclature of the American Medical Association.)


Cases for the Medical Examiners. - Under the provi- sions of chapter 24 of the Revised Laws deaths under the following conditions must be referred to the Medical Examiners:


1. Deaths following injury or violence, as Burns, Falls, Drowning, Gas poisoning, Suicide, Homicide, etc.


2. Deaths supposedly caused by violence, as Criminal abortion, Poisoning, Starvation, Suffocation, Exposure, etc.


3. Sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, as A death upon the strcet, or one supposed to be due to Alcoholism, etc.


4. Deaths under circumstances unknown, as A person found dead, etc.


ADDITIONAL SPACE


FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS BY


PHYSICIAN.


-


R 15. 1-'18. 100,000.


N. B .- Every item of information should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very


important. See Instructions on back of certificate.


PARENTS


12 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Bessie Rakeuses


13 BIRTHPLACE


OF MOTHER


(State or country)


Rumia


14 THE ABOVE IS TRUE TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE


(Informant)


Abraham Marcus


(Address)


Il Sea pain aux


REGISTRAR


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


3 SEX


4 COLOR OR RACE


White


5 SINGLE,


MARRIED,


WIDOWED,


OR DIVORCED


(Write the word)


16 DATE OF DEATH


Oct.


6


8


(Month)


(Day)


191


(Year)


· DATE OF BIRTH


Septembre


24


(Month) (Day)


1917


7 AGE


If LESS than I day ......... hrs.


yrs. mos. 12 ds.


... min. ?


& OCCUPATION


(s) Trade, profession, or


particular kind of work


(b) General nature of Industry,


business, or establishment


which employed (or employer) ..


none


9 BIRTHPLACE


(State or country)


(Duration)


............. yrs.


.............. mos. ...


4


ds.


Contributory (SECONDARY)


(Duration) .mos. ................ yrs. . ds.


(Signed)


...


M.D.


art. 6,


1915 (Address) 200 Pleasant st.


* If death followed injury or violence the certificate of death must be made out by the Medical Examiner.


18 LENGTH OF RESIDENCE (FOR HOSPITALS, INSTITUTIONS, TRANSIENTS, OR RECENT RESIDENTS).


At place


of death.


yrs ..


.... mos.


ds.


State ..


.......... yrs.


In the


........... mos. ....


ds .......


Where was disease contracted, If not at place of death 7. Former or usual residence


19 PLACE OF BURIAL OR REMOVAL Mount Vale


DATE OF BURIAL


Oct E.


..


191.15


20 UNDERTAKER


Abraham Marken


ADDRESS


Filed Eat Z, 19 ....


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts


STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


1 PLACE OF DEATH


(No.


11


Son Porn


_St.


.....................


Ward)


Jeanette


Marka.


2 FULL NAME


[If married or divorced woman or widow give maiden name, also name of husband.] @RESIDENCE II SEA FOAM ATE


Wenthe IF(City or town.)


[If death occurred In a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number.]


.... Registered No.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


1


17


I HEREBY CERTIFY that I attended deceased from


Wet. 2


8 to.


......


191.


CerF. 5.


. 1918


that I last saw h M alive on


1,


5, 191 8 and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at 9:20 m - The CAUSE OF DEATH* was as follows :


foto tran


10 NAME OF


FATHER


Olinham Markwo


11 BIRTHPLACE


OF FATHER


(State or country)


Russia


......


Oct. 6. 1918


STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH.


Statement of occupation. - Precise statement of occu- pation is very important, so that the relative healthfulness of , various pursuits can be known. The question applies to eacli and every person, irrespective of age. For many occupations a single word or term on the first line will be sufficient, c. g., Farmer or Planter, Physician, Compositor, Architect, Loco- motive engineer, Civil engineer, Stationary fireman, etc. But in many cases, especially in industrial employments, it is necessary to know (a) the kind of work and also (b) the nature of the business or industry, and therefore an additional line is provided for the latter statement; it should be used only when needed. As examples: (a) Spinner, (b) Cotton mill; (a) Sales- man, (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 household only (not paid House- keepers who receive a definite salary), may be entered as Housewife, Housework, or At home, and children, not gain- fully employed, as At school or At home. Care should be taken to report specifically 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 occu- pation whatever, write Nonc.


Statement of cause of death. - Name, first, thic DIS- EASE CAUSING DEATH (the primary affection with respect to time and causation), using always the same accepted term for the same disease. Examples: Cerebro-spinal fever (the only definite synonym is "Epidemie cerebro-spinal meningitis"); Diphtheria (avoid use of "Croup"); Typhoid fever (never re- port "Typhoid pneumonia"); Lobar pneumonia; Broncho- pneumonia ("Pneumonia," unqualified, is indefinite) ; Tuber-


culosis of lungs, meninges, peritonaeum, etc., Carcinoma, Sar- coma, 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 (second- ary or intercurrent) affection need not be stated unless im- portant. Example: Measles (disease causing death), 29 ds .; Broncho-pneumonia (secondary), 10 ds. Never report mere symptoms or terminal conditions, such as "Asthenia," "An- acmia" (merely symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Collapse," "Coma," "Convulsions," "Debility" ("Congenital," "Senile," etc.), "Dropsy," "Exhaustion," "Heart failure," "Haemorrhage," "Inanition," "Marasmus," "Old agc," "Shock," "Uraemia," "Weakness," etc., when a definite disease can be ascertained as the cause. Always qualify all diseases resulting from childbirth or miscarriage, as "PUER- PERAL scpticaemia," "PUERPERAL peritonitis," ctc. State cause for which surgical operation was undertaken.


Cases for the Medical Examiners. - Under the provi- sions of chapter 24 of the Revised Laws deaths under the fol- lowing conditions must be referred to the Medical Examiners:


1. Deaths following injury or violence, as Burns, Falls, Drowning, Gas poisoning, Suicide, Homicide, etc.


2. Deaths supposedly caused by violence, as Criminal abortion, Poisoning, Starvation, Suffocation, Ex- posure, etc.


3. Sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, as A death upon the street, or onc supposed to be due to Alcoholism, etc.


4. Deatlıs under circumstances unknown, as A person found dead, etc.


COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS


RETURN OF A DEATH-1918.


CITY OF BOSTON


FULL NAME


Place of Death { and Residence (


Boston


OCT.7


1918,


Age


34


years months days.


STATISTICAL DETAILS.


SEX.


COLOR.


SINGLE, MARRIED, WID., DIV.


F


W


M


Maiden Name


COOPER


Husband's Name


THOMAS SHAW


ENGLAND


Birthplace


Name of Father


JAMES COOPER


B


1800. DIMINE DONATA AL STON. MASS.


Contributory: { (Duration)


MITRAL REGURGITATION


(Signed)


M.S.BRINGMAN


M.D


ост.8 1918


SPECIAL INFORMATION from Hospitals, Institutions, Transients, or Recent Residents.


Place of Burial or removal


WINTHROP(WINTHROP CEM


Undertaker C.R.BENNISON




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