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if not at place of death ?.
Former or usual residence
3 Sex
male
4 Color or Race
white
5 Single
Married
Widowed
or Divorced
(Write the word)
marre
9 Birthplace
East Careton, mark
10 Name of
Father
Peterw +letelier
May 6th, 19_2.1 ..
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CORPSE TRANSIT LABEL FUNERAL DIRECTOR'S CERTIFICATE.
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License No ...
I (or we) hereby certify that the accompanying dead body of __ Sgt_ Arthur.M. Fletcher 164607
o be transported to East __ Boston ___ State of. MasS_in care of. soldier escort
has been prepared for transportation in conformity with the transportation rules for corpses in this State.
Shipping Funeral Director.
May __ 6th
19_2]
Address.
Army Piers
Hoboken. M.I.
Station Baggage Agent must enter hereon a description of the corpse ticket, or check the exact route and via what Junctional Points the corpse ticket or check reads, which is held by the passenger in charge of the corpse.
Date
19
From to
State of
No. of Ticket
Form No. of Ticket
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Name of Passenger in charge.
Place of residence
Signed
Station Agent.
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OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
BOSTON
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County
Suffolk
State. Massachusetts
Registered No
City or Town
No.
France
St.,
.Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
Aether In
Fletcher Sara major
(a) Residence.
No.
815 Shirley Sainttrop
St.,
.....
.. Ward.
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
( Usual place of abode)
Length of residence ta city or town where death occurred
years
months
days.
How long in U. 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
Florence Marie Fletcher
6 DATE OF BIRTH
( Month)
(Day)
( Year)
7 AGE Ycars
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
CONTRIBUTORY ( SECONDARY)
(duration) .yrs ...
mos ...
.ds.
18 Where was disease contracted if not at place of death? FOR WHAT ?
Did an operation precede death ?.
Date of
Was there an autopsy ?
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
(Signed)
M.D.
(Address)
Date
(Month) (Day)
(Year)
14
Informant.
Family
(Address)
815 Sticky St. Spindler
15 may/1/21 Filed (Month) (Day) (Year)
REGISTRAR
21 I HEREBY CERTIFY Mat a satisfactory stan- dard certificate of death was Gled with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued Fifi Kalla
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
Woodlawn,
Everett.
DATE OF BURIAL May 15, 1921
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
20 UNDERTAKER
C. a. Rolling
ADDRESS
Boston
Official position bleus
1
Permit
Date of issne of permit Zey 13,21 No 14223
., CO
19
that I last saw h alive on 19
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at
m. The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows :
(duration)
yrs. .mos ......... ds.
9 BIRTHPLACE (City) (State or country)
10 NAME OF
FATHER
PARENTS
11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) (State or country)
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
17 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
,19
.........
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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
(City or Town)
Boston
(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
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REVISED UNITED STATES STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
[Approved by U. S. Census and American Public Health Association]
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Statement of occupation. - Precise statement of occupation is very important, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known. The question applies to each and every person, irrespective of age. For many occupations a single word or term on the first line will be sufficient, e. g., Farmer or Planter, Physician, Compositor, Architect, Locomotive engineer, Civilengineer, Stationary fireman, etc. But in many cascs, 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," "Dealcr," 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 entored as Housewife, Housework, or At home, and children, not gainfully employed, as At school or At home. Care should he 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 CAUSINO DEATH, state occupation at beginning of illness. If retired from business, that fact may be indicated thus: Farmer (retired, 6 yrs.). For persons who have no occupation whatever, write None.
Statement of cause of death. - Name, first, the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH (the primary affection with respect to time and causation), using always the same accepted term for the same disease. Examples: Cere- brospinal fever (the only definite synonym is "Epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis"); Diphtheria (avoid use of "Croup"); Typhoid fever (never report "Typhoid pneumonia"); Lobar pneumonia; Bronchopneumonia ("Pneumonia," unqualified, is indefinitc); Tuberculosis of lungs, men- inges, peritoneum, etc., Carcinoma, Sarcoma, etc., of ....... .. (name origin; "Cancer" is Icss definite; avoid use of "Tumor" for malignant neoplasms); Measles; Whooping cough; Chronic valvular heart disease; Chronic interstitial nephritis, etc. The contributory (secondary or inter- current) affection need not he stated unless important. Example: Measles (disease causing death), 29 ds .; Bronchopneumonia (secondary), 10 ds. Never report mere symptoms or terminal conditions, such as "Asthenia," "Anemia" (merely symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Col- lapse,""Coma,""Convulsions,""Dehility" ("Congenital,""Senile," ctc.), "Dropsy,""Exhaustion,""Heart failure,""Hemorrhage,""Ina- nition," "Marasmus," "Old age," "Shock," "Uremia,""Weakness," etc., when a definite disease can he ascertained as the cause. Always qualify all discases 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: I! 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, erysipeias, meningitis, miscar- riage, necrosis, peritonitis, phlebitis, pyemia, septicemia, tetanus.
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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 deceased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died [defined so that it can he classified under the international classification of causes of death], where contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last scen 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 he accompanied by a satisfactory certificate of the at- tending physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certifi- cate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, the chairman of the board of health, if a physician, or any physician employed by said board or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make such certificate as is required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical examiner only shall make such certificate. .. . The person to whom the per- mit is so given and the physician who certifies to the cause of death shall thereafterfurnish for registration any other necessary information which can be obtained as to the deceased, or as to the manner or cause of the death, which the clerk or registrar may require. - Revised Laws, Chap. 78, Sec. 38.
Medical examiners shall, in all cascs, certify to the city or town clerk or to the city registrar in the place where the deceased died, his name and residence, if known, otherwise a description of such person as full as may he, with the cause and manner of his death, and shall make examination upon the view of the dead hodies of only such persons as are supposed to have come to their death hy violence. - Revised Laws, Chap. 24, Sec. 8.
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfilment of the purpose of these laws calls for the ohservance of the following rules of practice:
(1) Attending physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons to whom they have given bedside care during a last illness from disease unrelated to any form of injury.
(2) Board of Health Physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons who, though disahled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose physician is ahsent 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 ahortion, but also deaths from disease resulting from injury or infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabied by recognized disease, and those of persons found dead.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County.
Fuiffock
State
Registered No ..
.or
Village.
55- Monthol
No ...
St ... Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give Its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
1
(If in the Army of Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc:)
(a) Residence.
No ...
(Usual place of ahpde)
11
Leogth of residence in city or town where death occurred
years
months
days.
How long io U. S., if of foreigo birth ?
years
months
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
4 COLOR OR RACE
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
Married
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
Eric Es Kimball
6 DATE OF BIRTH (month, day, and year)
Cet 2118%
7 AGE
Years
48
Months
Days
23
If LESS than 1 day, ........ brs. or ........ mio.
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
9 BIRTHPLACE (city or town).
(State or country)
22%
10 NAME OF FATHER GreenPinbrauch
11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (city hoeveel tant (State or country)
12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (city or download (State or country) 24 --
14 Amillice & Murdoch
(Address)
15 Filed 1.
........ , 19
REGISTRAR
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH (month, day, and year) nov1 3 1918
17 I HEREBY CERTIFY, Thay I attended deceased from Did not attisido Liew 19
that I last saw h.
19
alive on .
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at
m.
The CAUSE OF DEATH* was as follows :
Natural Causes
(C.S. Care )
Bright D'une.
(duration)
mos.
yrs ..
d3.
CONTRIBUTORY
(SECONDARY)
(duration)
yrs.
ds.
18 Where was disease contracted
if not at place of death ?
Did an operation precede death ?
Date of.
Was there an autopsy ?.
20.
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
Willique L Para
(Signed)
"/65. 19/8 (Address)
* 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
DATE OF BURIAL Crema Tomt 1/1 /2016 1918
20 UNDERTAKER
ADDRESS
hackman
of the aett M.D.
of certificate.
Township
City.
3 SEX ?
(a) Trade, profession, or
particolar kind of work
PARENTS
Informant
so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. See instructions on back
(b) Geoeral nature of industry,
business, or establishment in
which employed (or employer)
(c) Name of employer
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH Mail
(City or town)
or
St.,
Ward.
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
[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 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., Farmer or Planter, Physician, Compos- itor, Architect, Locomotive 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 thic 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 form part of the second statement. Never return "Laborer," "Forcinan," "Manager," "Dealer," etc., without more precise specification, as Day laborer, Farm laborer, Laborer -Coal mine, ete. 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 "Epidemic cerebrospinal menin- gitis"); Diphtheria (avoid use of "Croup"); Typhoid fever (never report -"Typhoid pneumonia"); Lobar pneumonia; Bronchopneumonia ("Pneumonia," unquali- ficd, 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); 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 (discasc causing death), 29 Gs .; Broncho- pneumonia (secondary), 10 ds. Never report mere syinp- toins or terminal conditions, such as "Asthenia," "Ancmia" (merely symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Col- lapse," "Coma," "Convulsions," " Debility" (“Con- genital," "Senile," ete.), "Dropsy," "Exhaustion," "Heart failure," "Hemorrhage," "Inanition," "Maras- mus," "Old age," "Shock,"" "Uremia," "Weakness," etc., when a definite disease can be ascertaincd as the cause. Always qualify all discases resulting from ehild- birth or miscarriage, as "PUERPERAL septicemia," "PUER- PERAL peritonitis," etc. State cause for which surgical operation was undertaken. For VIOLENT DEATIIS STATE MEANS OF INJURY and qualify as ACCIDENTAL, SUICIDAL, or HOMICIDAL, or as probably such, if impossible to de- termine definitely. Examples: Accidental drowning; Strvek 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 (c. g., sepsis, tetanus) may be stated
under the head of "Contributory." (Recommendations on statement of eause 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 street, or one supposed to be duc to Alcoholism, etc.
4. Deaths under eircumstances unknown, as A person found dead, etc.
ADDITIONAL SPACE
FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS BY
PHYSICIAN.
R 15. 1-'18. 100,000.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City or town)
State ..
Mass.
Registered No.
or Village
or No ..
St.,
.Ward
(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
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH (month, day, and year) er ; Ly 19.18
17 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from hru 1 urv. 19 ...
19 15
, to
that I last saw h __ __ alive on
19
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, a
3.4,P
m.
The CAUSE OF DEATH* was as follows :
If LESS than 1 day, ........ krs. or ........ min. auto mistativo Kravet
(duration) yrs. mos .. .ds.
CONTRIBUTORY
(SECONDARY)
(duration)
yrs ..
.........
.mos ..
ds.
18 Where was disease contracted
if not at place of death?
Did an operation precede death ?
Date of
Was there an autopsy ?
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
(Signed)
1.5, 19 % (Address)
356 hmet of
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
DATE OF BURIAL
ADDRESS
20 UNDERTAKER Johny-O maley
REGISTRAR
1 PLACE OF DEATH County SuffPå* Township Winthrop City 2 FULL NAME Effie (NoLean) MoIsaac (a) Residence. No. (Usual place of abode) Length of residence in city or towo where death occurred 54 Felcher St. 3 SEX 4 COLOR OR RACE Temale White Widored 5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of (or) WIFE of 6 DATE OF BIRTH (month, day, and year) 7 AGE Years Months Days 65 8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED (a) Trade, professioo, or particular kind of work t Home (b) General nature of industry, business, or establishment in which employed (or employer) (c) Name of employer 9 BIRTHPLACE (city or town) 10 NAME OF FATHER Ronald 11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (city or town) (State or country) Scotland 13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (eity or town) PARENTS (State or country) Scotland 14 Informant Daniel MoIsaac (Address) 159 Warren Ave. Boston. of certificate. 15 Filed 1/21,198 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) Prince Edwards Tslant
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
Angus hos Isaac.
185 2
12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER Mary Maccall
54 Belcher St.
...
years
months
days.
How loog in U. S., if of foreign birth ?
years
LO VIRIWO DIANDAND 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 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., Farmer or Planter, Physician, Compos- itor, Architect, Locomotive 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) Salesman, (b) Groecry; (a) Foreman, (b) Automobile factory. The ma- terial worked on may form part of the second statement. Never, return "Laborer,"
T
"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 oceupation 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 discase. 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; Bronehopneumonia ("Pneumonia," unquali- fied, is indefinite); Tuberculosis of lungs, meninges, peri- toneum, etc., Carcinoma, Sarcoma, etc., of_
(naine 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 Gs .; Broneho- 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- mus," "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," ctc. State cause for which surgical operation was undertaken. For VIOLENT DEATHS STATE MEANS OF INJURY and qualify as ACCIDENTAL, SUICIDAL, Of HOMICIDAL, or as probably such, if impossible to de- termine definitely. Examples: Accidental drowning; Strvek by railway train - accident; Revolver wound of head - homicide; Poisoned by earbolie acid - probably suicide. The nature of the injury, as fracture of skull, and consequences (c. 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.)
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