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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Nuithrof (City or Town)
Registered No.
44
No. ,٠ St.,. ....... .. Ward (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
(a) Residence.
No ..
( Usual place of abode
Length of resideoce in city or town where death occorred
years
months
days.
How loog io U. S., if of foreign birth ?
years
months
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
Make White
4 COLOR OR RACE
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR DIVORCED (write the word) Widower
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
Omma Siew Smith
6 DATE OF BIRTH
feb
8
(Day)
(Month)
1944 (feaf)
Years
80
Months
/
Days
9
If LESS thao 1 day, ........ hrs. or ....... min.
If STILLBORN, coter that fact bera
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or
particular kind of work
Ar Home
Diamond Me
9 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Greenleaf Scritto
11 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City) ....
Carsonfuela
(State or country)
12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER
Caroline Tyler
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country)
Difuser Ale
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH
(Month)
17
(Day)
1921
(Year)
10. MY 17 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from En man, 17. , 19 .. 2%) ... to. har 17. 9 P.M 19 21
that I last saw h
.
was alive on
man.
17
19. 21 and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at 9,5 Pm. The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows:
Acute Endocarditis
(duration) .... .. yrs ......
... mos ... ds.
CONTRIBUTORY
Cystitis _ _ clumie Lublintis
(SECONDARY)
(duration)
2
mos.
ds.
18 Where was disease contracted
if not at place of death ?
Did an operation precede death ?
... Date of
Was there an autopsy ?
www.
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
(Signed)
Edward J. Framan.
, M.D.
(Address).
49 Boutlets Road
Date
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
DATE OF BURIAL
Winthrop
(Cemetery)
"City or town)
Century March19-21
ADDRESS
20 UNDERTAKER Franck & Bremen East Botn Permit
Official position
a) Health Office
Date of issue 2. of permit 3/19/21 No 279
7 AGE 10 NAME OF FATHER PARENTS 14 Informant should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH (b) Name of employer in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. See instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate.
50,000.
21 I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stao- dard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issoed S.a. Maury
REGISTRAR
State. Mass
Somerset for
County. Writharp City or Town
Llewellyn 2 Smith
(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
Ward.
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
17
1921
(Address)
77 Sommierser Ave Math
15 Filed .. Mar. 28. 1921 (Month) (Day) (Year)
Me.
Urinalysis
.yr's n.
Mar. 171921. REVISED UNITED STATES STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
[Approved by U. S. Census and American Public Health Association]
.
Statement of occupation. - Precise statement of occupation is very important, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can he 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 he sufficient, e. g., Farmer or Planter, Physician, Compositor, Architect, Lacomotive engineer, Civilengineer, Stationary fireman, etc. 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 he used only when needed. As examples: (a) Spinner, (b) Cotton mill; (a) Salesman, (b) Gracery; (a) Fareman, (b) Automabile factary. The material worked on may form part of the second statement. Never return "Lahorer," "Foreman," "Manager," "Dealer," etc., without more precise specification, as Day labarer, Farm labarer, Labarer - Coal mine, etc. Women at home, who are engaged in the duties of the house- hold only (not paid Hausekeepers who receive a definite salary), may he entered as Housewife, Hausewark, or At hame, 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, Caak, 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 he indicated thus: Farmer (retired, 6 yrs.). For persons who have no occupation whatever, write Nane.
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., Carcinama, Sarcoma, etc., of. ...
... (name origin; "Cancer" is less definite; avoid use of "Tumor" for malignant neoplasms); Measles; Whooping caugh; Chranic 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 .; Bronchapneumonia (secondary), 10 ds. Never report mere symptoms or terminal conditions, such as "Asthenia," "Anemia" (merely symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Col- lapse,""Coma,""Convulsions,""Dehility" ("Congenital,""Senile," etc.), "Dropsy,""Exhaustion,""Heart failure,""Hemorrhage,""Ina- nition," "Marasmus," "Old age," "Shock," "Uremia,""Weakness," etc., when a definite disease can he ascertained as the 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.
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 be classified under the international classification of causes of death], where contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive hy the physician, and the date of his death. . - Revised Laws, Chap. 29, Secs. 10 and 1. as amended by Acts af 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 certificate of the at- tending physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certifi- cate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, the chairman of the board of health, if a physician, or any physician employed by said board or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make such certificate as is required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical examiner only shall make such certificate. ... The person to whom the per- mit is so given and the physician who certifies to the cause of death shall thereafter furnish for registration any other necessary information which can he 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. 88.
Medical examiners shall, in all cases, certify to the city or town clerk or to the city registrar in the place where the deceased died, his name and residence, if known, otherwise a description of such person as full as may he, 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 hy 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 dest 1 posably due to injury. These include not only deaths caused 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.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
2517 ( City or town)
1 PLACE OF DEATH
SUFFOLK
MASS.
County
State.
Registered No.
45
(Place of residence)
IstFIREWard
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
MASS.
City or Town
WINTHROP
No.
28 PEAPL AVE. -- St.
Length of residence in 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
M
4 COLOR OR RACE
W
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED . (write the word)
SIN.
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
6 DATE OF BIRTH (month, day, and year) OCT . 19. 1920
7 AGE
Years
Months
Days
5
4
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
(b) Name of employer
9 BIRTHPLACE (eity or town)
WINTHROP
(State or country)
10 NAME OF FATHER HARRISON
11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (eity or town)
(State or country)
LACONIA
N.
12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER MAUDE HATCH
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (eity or town)
(State or country)
WARREN
VT.
14
Informant ( Address)
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL LACONIA. N.H(UNION CEM)
DATE OF BURIAL
MAR.26
19
15
Filed. MAR.256
Registrar of city or town where death occurred
Dujar 26, 19
Registrar of city or town where deceased resided
. 25,000
carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms. 80 that it may be properly classified. Exact statoment of OCCUPATION is very important. See instructions on back
of certificate.
Registered No.
(Place of death)
City or Town
BOSTON
No ..
EA T BOSTON EN ROUTE TO
DAVID BOULIA
(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
(a)- Residence. State
(Usual place of abode)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH (month, day, and year)
MAR 20.
19 2 J
17 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
19
.... , to
19
that I laat saw h. alive on 19
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at
m. The CAUSE OF DEATH* was as follows :
* State the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH, or in deaths from VIOLENT CAUSES, state (I) MEANS AND NATURE OF INJURY, and (2) whether ACCIDENTAL, SUICIDAL, or HOMICIDAL. (See reverse side for additional space.) MAL NUTRITION ASSOCIATED WITH MALFORM-
ATION OF TONGUE (HYPOPLASIA)
(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 ?.
GEORGE BURGESS MAGRATH
(Sigoed)
MAR. 23. VEJ.EX.
M.D.
, 19 ( Address)
FATHER
UNDERTAKER
J.F.O MALEY
ADDRESS
WINTHROP
PARENTS
R-302
March 20. 1.92 1
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 many occupations a single word or terin 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) Salcsman, (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 - 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. 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- 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 "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- toneum, 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 .; Broncho- pneumonia (secondary), 10 ds. Never report mere symp- toms or terminal conditions, such as "Asthenia," "Anemia" (mcrely symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Col- lapse," "Coma," "Convulsions,"""Debility" (“Con- genital," "Scnilc." etc.), " Dropsy," "Exhaustion," "Heart failure," "Hemorrhage," "Inanition," "Maras- inus," "Old age," "Shock," "Uremia," "Weakness," etc., when a definite discase can be ascertaincd as the causc. Always qualify all discases resulting from child- 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 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.
under the head of "Contributory." (Recommendations on statement of cause of death approved by Committee on Nomenclature of the American Medical Association.)
Casas 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. Dcathis 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 due to Alcoholism, etc.
4. Deaths under circumstances unknown, as A person found dead, etc.
ADDITIONAL SPACE
FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS BY PIIYSICIAN.
R-303
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
1 PLACE OF DEATH
(ISSUED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF REVISED LAWS, CHAPTER 24)
Registered No. 46
County
Waltrop
City or Town
St., Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give ite AME instead of street and number)
Esther Esknigge.
(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
(a) Residence.
No.
614 Shorty
(Usual place of abode)
Length of residence in city or towo wbere death occurred
years
L'ooths
days
How loog in U. S., if of foreign birth? years
mooths
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX 4 COLOR OR RACE white
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED OR DIVORCED (write the word)
5a If married, wil Lor divorced
Thomas, Slater
( Month)
(Day)
1957
(Year)
1 Months Days
If STILLBORN, eoter that fact here
Lf STILLBORN, state period of oterogestation
mooths
If LESS than 1 day ....... hrs. or ....... min.
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED (a) Trade, professioo, or particolar kind of work (b) General nature of industry, business, or establishment io which employed ( or employer) (c) Name of employer
9 BIRTHPLACE (City)
manchester Chy
(State or country) - - -
11 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
12 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country) 1
Medical Examiner for ..
mark 22
1921
Date
(Month)
(Day)
( Year)
19 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, or REMOVAL
DATE OF BURIAL 3 / 1 4
(Cemetery) With (City of town)
20 UNDERTAKER
C.R.Bu
(Month) (Day) (Year) ADDRESS
15 Filed Mar. 281921 ( Montif) ( Day) ( Year)
REGISTRAR
21 Burial permit
issued by
S.h. Maury
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH.
(Month)
21 1921 (Year)
(Day)
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: Natural Cameos Cardiovascular disease
(Sudden death )
(See reverse side for description for unknown person)
18 Where was injury sustained if not at place of death?
(Signed) ...
Leny Burger King the
M.D.
Suffolk
Permit No .. 250
issue .. 3/24/2/
Official Health office? Date of position,
11,588
2 FULL NAME WIFE of 6 DATE OF BIRTH 7 AGE 03 10 NAME OF FATHER PARENTS 14 Informant should be carefully supplied. MEDICAL EXAMINERS should state CAUSE AND MANNER OF DEATH in plain terms, 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 N. B. - WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of information (State or country)
(Address) 5090 theity of warstate
State 614 Shirley No.
St.,
.Ward,
(If non-resident give city or town and State)
Years
1
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 discase 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 enoughi 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 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 cxamination 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 the observance of the following rules of practice:
(1) Attending physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons to whom they have given bedside care during a last illness from disease unrelated to any form of injury.
(2) Board of Health physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons who, though disabled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose physician is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.
(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths supposably due to injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or indirectly by traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and by the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, but also deaths from disease resulting from in- jury or infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, and those of persons found dead.
STATEMENT OF CAUSE OF DEATH
Medical Examiners in certifying to a death will state the cause and manner thereof, and will specify: (1) Under cause, the nature of an injury and of its consequences; and (2) Lidt 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 anæsthetic." "Fracture of the skull with associated internal injury sustained under circumstances unknown."
If investigation shows the death to have been due to dis- ease, specify: (1) Under cause, its known or presumable nature; and (2) under manner, indicate the circumstances leading to medico-legal inquiry. For example: "Hemorrhage spontaneous, of the brain (basal gangloid) (found dead in bed)." "Heart disease, presumably coronary sclerosis. (Sudden death.)"
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