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, M.D.
(Address)
Date
may
(Month)
(Day)
1923.
(Year)
18 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
DATE OF BURIAL
(Cemetery)
(ity or town )
May 2 - 1933
19 UNDERTAKER
ADDRESS
May 2, 19.28 No. 577
mos. ....... .ds.
9 NAME OF
FATHER
John O. Osler
10 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHERACHty) ..
(State or country )
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
april 29. 1920 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 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 cases, especially in industrial employments, it is necessary to know (a) the kind of work and also (b) the nature of the business or industry, and therefore an additional line is provided for the latter statement; it should be used only when needed. As examples: (a) Spinner, (b) Cotton mill; (a) Salesman, (b) Grocery; (a) Foreman, (b) Automobile factory. The material worked on may form part of the second statement. Never return "Laborer," "Forcman," "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 employcd, as At school or At home. Care should be taken to report spe- cifically the occupations of persons engaged in domestic service for wages, as Servant, Cook, Housemaid, etc. If the occupation has been changed or given up on account of the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH, state occupation at beginning of illness. If retired from business, that fact may be indicated thus: Farmer (retired, 6 yrs.). For persons who have no occupation whatever, write None.
Statement of cause of death. - Name, first, the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH (the primary affection with respect to time and causation), using always the same accepted term for the same disease. Examples: Cere- brospinal fever (the only definito 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" (merely symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Col- lapse,""Coma,""Convulsions,""Debility" ("Congenital,""Senile," ete.), "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- mittce on Nomenclature of the American Medical Association.)
Bronchopneumonia: If primary cause, write the word "pri- mary" ; if secondary, give primary cause.
Certificates will be returned for additional information which give any of the following diseases, without explanation, as the soie 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 or registered hospital medical officer shall forthwith, after the death of a person whom he has attended during his last illness, at the request of an undertakeror 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 as re- quired by section one, where same was contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive by the physician or officer and the date of his death. ...- Gen. Laws, Chap. 46, Sec. 9.
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 town where the person died; .. . No such permit shall be issued until there shail have been delivered to such board, agent or cierk ... a satisfactory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an original interment, by a satisfactory certi- ficate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate 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, a physi- cian who is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical examiner shall make such certi- ficato. . .. The person to whom the permit is so given and the physi- cian certifying 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. - Gen. Laws, Chap. 114, Sec. 45.
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, Scc. 6.
. . . He shall in all cases certify to the town clerk or registrar in the place where the deceased dicd 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 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 discaso 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.
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
BOSTON
(City or town}
Registered No ..
4796
(Place of death)
Registered No.
82
(Place of residence)
St.
Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
GEORGIANA
I. WATSON
City or Town
WINTHROP
No.
243 WINTHROP
St.
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
years
months
days.
How long in U. S., if of foreign birth ?
years
mouths
days
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
15 DATE OF DEATH.
(Month)
APR 29
1923
(Day)
(Year)
16
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
... M.A.R .... I
1923, to APR.29
19.23 ...... ,
ER
APR.29
that I last saw h
alive on
19.23 .......
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at
I P.
m.
The CAUSE OF DEATH was as followe :
MYOCARDITIS
(duration)
mos
ds.
CONTRIBUTORY
ARTERIO-SCLEROSIS
(SECONDARY)
(duration)
.yrs.
ds.
17 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)
JOHN L. A"ES
, 19
(Address)
APR.29
18 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
LOWELL
DATE OF BURIAL
MAY 1
19 23
1923 Ermslenen
Registrar of city or town where death occurred
Registrar of city or town where deceased resided
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County
Suffolk
Boston
City or Town
(a) Residence. State
MASS.
(Usual piace of ahode)
3 SEX
F
4 COLOR OR RACE
W
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
6 AGE
Years
Months
76
Days
26
If STILLBORN, euter that fact bere
7 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or
NONE
particular kind of work
(b) Name of employer
8 BIRTHPLACE (city or town)
(State or country)
9 NAME OF
FATHER
10 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (city or town)
FAYETTE
12 BIRTHPLACE OF
NEWBURYPORT
PARENTS
MOTHER (city or town)
(State or country)
13
MATRON
Informant
(Address)
14
Filed
MAY 3
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.
Filed mar 10.
19 23
END. ALLAIRE, TOTALING TRATODATENMANENT REVUND. Every Item of Information Should be
(State or country)
ME.
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
S
If LESS than
1 day ........ hrs.
or ....... min.
SHEPARD WATSON
11 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
EMELINE TREAT
M.D.
19 UNDERTAKER
F.L .BRIGGS
ADDRESS
State
No. HOME FOR AGED WOVEN
(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
Massachusetts
yrs.
2
[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 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 cases, especially in industrial employments, it is necessary to know (a) the kind of work and also (b) the nature of the business or industry, and therefore an additional line is provided for the latter statement; it should be used only when needed. As examples: (a) Spinner, (b) Cotton mill; (a) Salesman, (b) Grocery; (a) Foreman, (b) Automobile factory. The material worked on may form part of the 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 domestic service for wages, as Servant, Cook, Housemaid, etc. If the occupation has been changed or given up on account of the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH, state occupation at beginning of illness. If retired from business, that fact may be indicated thus: Farmer (retired, 6 yrs.). For persons who have no occupation whatever, write None.
Statement of cause of death. - Name, first, the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH (the primary affection with respect to time and causation), using always the same accepted term for the same disease. Examples: Cere- brospinal fever (the only definite synonym is "Epidemio 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" (merely symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Col- lapse,""Coma,""Convulsions,""Debility" ("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.
Stato 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 or registered hospital medical officer shall forthwith, after the death of a person whom he has attended during his lastillness, at the request of an undertakeror 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 as re- quired by section one, where same was contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive by the physician or officer and the date of his death. . .. - Gen. Laws, Chap. 46, Sec. 9.
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 town where 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 containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an original interment, by a satisfactory certi- ficate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate 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, a physi- cian who is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical examiner shall make such certi- ficate. ... The person to whom the permit is so given and the physi- cian certifying 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. - Gen. Laws, Chap. 114, Sec. 45.
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 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 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 agenta, 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.
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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
BOSTON (City or town)
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County.
Suffolk
State
Massachusetts
City or Town
Boston
No.
MASS. GEN . HOSPT.
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
MARY JANE MORGAN
MASS
City or Town WINTHROP
No.
26 MARSHALL
St.
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
years
months
days.
How long in U. S., if of foreign birth ?
years
months
days
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
15 DATE OF DEATH
JUNE ..... 2
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
THOMAS
Years
Months
Days
If LESS than
1 day ........ brs.
or ....... min.
If STILLBORN, enter that fact bere
7 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or
particular kind of work.
HOUSEWIFE
8 BIRTHPLACE (city or town)
ENGLAND
DAVID HUGHES
10 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (city or town)
(State or country)
EBGLAND
11 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
MARY MADDOX
12 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (city or town)
(State or country)
ENGLAND
13 HUSBAND
18 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
WINTHROP (WINTHROP CEM)
DATE OF BURIAL
JUN. 4
1923
Filed JUN. 5
, 123
Enmblement Registrar of city or town where death occurred
Filed
1923
Registrar of city or town where deceased resided
-
CONTRIBUTORY
ACUTE PANCREATITIS
(SECONDARY)
(duration)
yrs.
mos.
ds.
17 Where was disease contracted
if not at place of death ?.
Did an operation precede death ?
YES
Date of
MAY 31
Was there an autopsy ?.
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
(Signed)
G. A. MAC IVER
M.D.
, 19
(Address)
JUN,2
19 UNDERTAKER
C.R. BENNISON
ADDRESS
WINTHROP
3 SEX
F
6 AGE
68
(b) Name of employer
9 NAME OF
FATHER
PARENTS
Informant
(Address)
14
so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. See instructions on back
carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH In plain terms,
of certificate.
& N. b. WHITE PLAINLT, WITH UNTADING INK- THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of information should be
(State or country)
Registered No ..
5759
(Place of death)
Registered No.
129
(Place of residence) St., .Ward
(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
(a) Residence. State.
(Usual place of abode)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
4 COLOR OR RACE
W
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
MAR.
1923
16
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
MAY 31
123
to.
JUNE 2
1923 .........
that I last saw h ..... E.R.alive on
J.U.N.E ..
2
1923 ........ .
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at
7.15A
m.
The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows :
CHOLECYSTITIS
(duration)
yrs ....
..........
.mos .......
... ds.
ALTIDCU UNIICE SIAIES 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 be 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. Butin many cases, especially in industrial employments, it is necessary to know (a) the kind of work and also (b) the nature of the business or industry, and therefore an additional line is provided for the latter statement; it should be used only when needed. As examples: (a) Spinner, (b) Cotton mill; (a) Salesman, (b) Grocery; (a) Foreman, (b) Automobile factory. The material worked on may form part of the 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 domestic service for wages, as Servant, Cook, Housemaid, etc. If the occupation has been changed or given up on account of the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH, state occupation at beginning of illness. If retired from business, that fact may be indicated thus: Farmer (retired, 6 yrs.). For persons who have no occupation whatever, write None.
Statement of cause of death. - Name, first, the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH (the primary affection with respect to time and causation), using always the same accepted term for the same discase. 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 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" (merely symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Col- lapse,""Coma,""Convulsions,""Debility" ("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.
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician or registered hospital medical officer shall forthwith, after the death of a person whom he has attended during his lastillness, at the request of an undertakeror 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 bclief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died, defined as re- quired by section one, where same was contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive by the physician or officer and the date of his death. . . .- Gen. Laws, Chap. 46, Sec. 9.
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 town where the person dicd; . . . No such permit shall beissued until thereshall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk ... a satisfactory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an original interment, by a satisfactory certi- ficate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law, or in licu thereof a certificate 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, a physi- cian who is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medicai examiner shall make such certi- ficate. ... The person to whom the permit is so given and the physi- cian certifying 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. - Gen. Laws, Chap. 114, Sec. 45.
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