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(2) Board of Health Physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons who, though disabled by recognized disease unre- lated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical at- tendance or whose physician is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.
(3) Medical examinere will investigate and certify to all deaths supposably due to injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or indirectly hy 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 disabled by recognized disease, and those of persons found dead.
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County_
Suffolk
State
MASSACHUSETTS.
Registered No.
or
NoStation Hospital, Fort Danke
St.,
Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
+ yrs.
mos.
ds.
How long In U. S., If of foreign birth ?
yrs.
mos,
ds.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
4 COLOR OR RACE
Khi
5 SINGLE. MARRIED, WIDOWED.
OR DIVORCED (write the word)
Single
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
6 DATE OF BIRTH (month, day, and year) Aug. 29, 1687.
7 AGE
Years
Months
Days 3
If LESS Than 1 day, ---- hrs. Or ---- min.
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or
particular kind of work.
Soldier
(b) General nature of Industry,
business, or establishment In
which employed (or employer)
U. S. ACTRI
CONTRIBUTORY
(SECONOARY)
18 Where was disease
(duration)
.. yrs. ------ mos. ...... ds.
if not at place of death ?-
Jul Bank man
Did an operation precede death ? __
Q --- Date of
Was there an autopsy?
You
What test confirmed diagnosis?
not completed
(Signsd).
L, M. D.
4/22.1924 (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
abril 24, 1924
ADDRESS
15
Filed 1: 2016,, 1927
11-3184
REGISTRAR
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
16 DATE OF DEATH (month, day, and year)Acre2 1 22
190
17
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
Apr11.21
19
toApril .. 22
19.24-,
that I last saw hald. alive on Apes.1.22
19.24-,
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at 3:00.A.m.
The CAUSE OF DEATH* was as follows:
Cerebral Concertin produced
by mechal alcohol "Prison.
(duration)
yrs.
mos.
2
ds.
9 BIRTHPLACE (city or town)
Inurenoo
10 NAME OF FATHER
Je
11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (city or town)
(State or country)
12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER Julia O' Toole
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (city or town)
Clinton
(State or country)
Informant.
John II. Trinn
(Address)
16 Russell St., Carivière, Mas.
20 UNDERTAKER
C. R/ Bem
Health officer 4/23/24 715
Township 2 FULL NAME 3 SEX (State or country) PARENTS 14 N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of infor- TION is very important. See instructions on back of certificate. CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPA- mation should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state (c) Name of employer
notified
or
Village
City
Winthrop
(a) Residence. No. 10 P
(Usual place of abode)
Ward.
(If nonresident give city or town and State)
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 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) 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 bo entered as Housewife, Housework, or At home, and children, not gainfully employcd, as At school or At home. Caro should be taken to report spe- cifically the occupations of persons engaged in domestic service for wages, as Servant, Cook, Housemaid, etc. Ifthe 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 deathi .- Name, first, the DISEASE CAUSING DEATH (tho primary affection with respect to timo and causation), using always the same accepted term for the same disease. Examples: Cerebrospinal fever (the only definito synonym is "Epidemic cerebrospinal menin- gitis"); Diphtheria (avoid use of "Croup"); Typhoid fever (never report "Typhoid pneumonia"); Lobar pneumonia; Bronchopneumonía ("Pneumonia," unqualified, is indefi- nite); Tuberculosis of lungs, meninges, peritoneum, etc., Car- cinoma, Sarcoma, etc., of ... - (name origin; “Can- cer" is less definite; avoid use of "Tumor" for malignant neoplasms); Measles; Whooping cough; Chronic valvular heart discase; Chronic interstitial nephritis, etc. Tho con- tributory (secondary or intercurrent) affection need not be stated unless important. Example: Measles (disease causing death), 29 ds .; Bronchopneumonia (secondary), 10 ds. Never report mere symptoms or terminal condi- tions, such as "Asthenia," " Ancmia" (merely symptom-
atic), "Atrophy," "Collapse," "Coma," "Convulsions," "Debility" ("Congenital,"" "Senile,"" etc.), "Dropsy,"" "Exhaustion," "Heart failure," "Hemorrhage,"" "Inani- tion," "Marasmus," "Old age,"" "Shock," "Uremia," "Weakness," etc., when a definite disease can be ascer- tained as the cause. Always qualify all diseases result- ing from childbirth or miscarriage, as "PUERPERAL septi- cemia," "PUERPERAL 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 impossiblo to determine 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.)
NOTE .- Individual offices may add to above list of undesirable terms and refuse to accept certificates containing them. Thus the form in use in New York City states: "Certificates will be returned for additional information which give any of the following diseases, without explana- tion, as the sole cause of death: Abortion, cellulitis, childbirth, convul- sions, hemorrhage, gangrene, gastritis, erysipelas, meningitis, miscar- riage, necrosis, peritonitis, phlebitis, pyemia, septicemia, tetanus." But general adoption of the minimum list suggested will work vast improve- ment, and its scope can be extended at a later date.
11-3184
ADDITIONAL SPACE FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS
BY PHYSICIAN.
-
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
County.
Suffolk
State
MASSACHUSETTS.
Registered No.
City
Winthrop
No. .
Station Hospital For Banks Muse
Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME.
Hemy O. Dion
(a) Residence. No.
r. 38 naumkerg
St. Saleward Man
(If nonresident give city or town and State)
mos.
ds.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
4 COLOR OR RACE
5 SINGLE. MARRIED, WIDOWED, OB DIVORCED (write the word) Single
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
6 DATE OF BIRTH (month, day, and year) March 28-1902
Months
Days
0
26
If LESS than 1 day, ---- hrs. or ---- min.
8 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or
Soldier, U.S. army
(b) General nature of Industry, business, or establishment in which employed (or employer)
Medical Department
9 BIRTHPLACE (city or town)
Salemi,
(State or country)
mass.
10 NAME OF FATHER alfred Dion
11 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (city or town)
St. Mary
(State or count
Quebec, Canada.
12 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER Garila Hay
13 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (eity or town)
St. Heam
(State or count Quebec, Canada
Informant. Genred & Dion.
(Address) # 38 Nambellery St, Sala Mon
Filed _. , 19
REGISTRAR
11-3184
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
1924
17
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
March 24,24
to
april 23
134
that I last saw him alive on
19
april 23
1924
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at
3 P.m.
The CAUSE OF DEATH* was as follows:
Brain tumor (probably glioma)
(duration)
- yrs.
mos. ds,
CONTRIBUTORY
(SECONDARY)
18 Where was disease contracted
(duration)
------ yrs. ------ mos. --.... ds.
if not at place of death ?.
Did an operation precede death ?
no
Date of
Was there an autopsy?
yes
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
cuder
way
(Signe
Autremivel . may. m.c.
I. D.
4/23, 1924(Address)
Fort Baule, mass.
* 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 opeunid
NFOR REMOVAL
Removal To Selam Mars
DATE OF BURIAL
april 26
1924
20 UNDERTAKER
CR. Benson
ADDRESS
Windlust
Istalti for 4/25/27
5/7/200 Township 3 SEX 7 AGE Years 22 PARENTS 14 mation should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state (c) Name of employer 15 5/6/24 N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of infor- TION is very important. See instructions on back of certificate. CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPA- particular kind of work -.
Jaren Notified
PLACE OF DEATH
or Village
or
(Usual place of abode)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
yrs.
mos.
31 ds.
How long in U. S., if of foreign birth ?
yrs.
16 DATE OF DEATH (month, day, and year)
april 23
Pathological examination
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 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, 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) 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. Ifthe 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," unqualified, is indefi- nite); Tuberculosis of lungs, meninges, peritoneum, etc., Car- cinoma; Sarcoma, etc., of (name origin; “Can- cer" is less definite; avoid use of "Tumor" for malignant neoplasms); Measles; Whooping cough; Chronic valvular heart disease; Chronic interstitial nephritis, etc. The con- tributory (sccondary or intercurrent) affection need not be stated unless important. Example: Measles (disease causing death), 29 ds .; Bronchopneumonia (secondary), 10 ds. Never report mere symptoms or terminal condi- tions, such as "Asthenia," " Anemia"? (merely symptom-
atic), "Atrophy,", "Collapse,", "Coma," "Convulsions," "Debility" ("Congenital,"" "Senile,"" etc.), "Dropsy,"" "Exhaustion," "Heart failure,"" "Hemorrhage,"3 "Inani- tion," "Marasmus," "Old age," "Shock," "Uremia," "Weakness," etc., when a definite discase can be ascer- tained as the cause. Always qualify all diseases result- ing from childbirth or miscarriage, as "PUERPERAL septi- cemia," "PUERPERAL 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 determine 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:)
NOTE .- Individual offices may add to above list of undesirable terms and refuse to accept certificates containing them. Thus the form in use in New York City states: "Certificates will be returned for additional information which give any of the following diseases, without explana- tion, as the sole cause of death: Abortion, cellulitis, childbirth, convul- sions, hemorrhage, gangrene, gastritis, erysipelas, meningitis, miscar- riage, necrosis, peritonitis, phlebitis, pyemia, septicemia, tetanus." But general adoption of the minimum list suggested will work vast improve- ment, and its scope can be extended at a later date.
11-3184.
ADDITIONAL SPACE FOR FURTHER STATEMENTS
BY PHYSICIAN.
1
M R-301
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County
Suffolk
State Mass
(City or town)
Registered No.
-City or Town
Winthrop
No.
44
Pleasant It
St., Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
44 Pleasant Lt-
St., 1 Ward.
(If non-resident give city or town and state)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
20
years
months
- days.
How long in U. S., if of foreign birth?
years
months days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
Female
4 COLOR OR RACE
White
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCEO (write the word)
Nulow-
5a If married, widowed or divorced
HUSBAND of
for WIFE of
William Henry Shannon
6 AGE
94-
Years
Months
4
Days
20
If LESS than
1 day, __ hrs.
or __ min.
If STILLBORN, enter that fact høre
7 OCCUPATION OF DEGEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or
particular kind of work
Ritued Nous wife
(b) Name of employer
London
CONTRIBUTORY
(SECONDARY)
(duration)
yrs
mos
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)
., M. 0.
(Address)
Date
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
18 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION OR REMOVAL
Leder Trone being
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
DATE OF BURIAL
Q1/27/24
14
apr, 28 24 Bessie L, Dodge
Filed
(Month) (Day) (Year)
REGISTRAR
19 UNDERTAKER
Walter T. While Thinckich
ADDRESS
20 | HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stan- dard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued HerDamit
Official position
HEallt office
Date of issue of permit April 27. 1924
/ Permit NO. 718.
PARENTS
10 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Nales
11 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Sarah Mackey
12 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Wales_
13 Haughtes This Many la Roberte. Informant
(Address)
44 Clearoutst, Ninetian
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
2.44
1424
15 DATE OF DEATH
(Min. : )
(Dal)
(Year)
16 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from Am 15 1924, to april 24, 1927. ,
that I last saw h
alive on
amil 23
,1924
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at.
100 m.
The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows:
arterio-solemos
(duration)
_yrs
mos. .ds.
8 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Gugland
9 NAME OF
FATHER
William Watts
N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of information instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate. in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. See should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH
-100,000
Tarah Thannow
ah
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
26
1924
apr. 1. 24. 19 24 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, irre- spective of age. For many occupations a single word or term on the first line will be sufficient, e. g., Farmer or Planter, Physician, Com- positor, Architect, Locomotive engineer, Civil engineer, Stationary fire- man, 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 materiai worked on may form part of the second statement. Never return "Laborer," "Fore- man," "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 House- wife, Housework, or At home, and children, not gainfully 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 occupa- tion 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. Exam- ples: Cerebrospinal fever (the only definite synonym is "Epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis"); Diphtheria (avoid use of "Croup"); Typhoid fever (never report "Typhoid pneumonia"); Lobar pneu- monia; Bronchopneumonia ("Pneumonia," unqualified, is indefinite); Tuberculosis of lungs, meninges, 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 intercurrent) 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," "Collapse," "Coma," "Convul- sions," "Debility" ("Congenital," "Senile," etc.), "Dropsy," "Ex- haustion," "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 childbirth or miscarriage, as "PUERPERAL 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 "primary"; if secondary, give primary cause.
Certificates wiil be returned for additional information which give any of the following diseases, without expianation, as the sole cause of death: Abortion, celluiitis, childbirth, convuisions, hemorrhage, gangrene, gastritis, erysipelas, meningitis, miscarriage, necrosis, peritonitis, phiebitis, pyemia, septicemia, tetanus.
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physiclan or registered hospital medicai officer shall forth- with, 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 registra- tion a standard certificate of death, stating to the best of his knowl- edge and belief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died, defined as required 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 shali be issued until there shali 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, in case of an original interment, by a satisfactory certificate 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 pur- pose, or is insufficient, a physician who is a member of the board of health, or empioyed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shail upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical examiner shall make such certificate. .. The person to whom the permit is so given and the physician 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 re- quire .- Gen. Laws, Chap. 114, Sec. 45.
Medicai 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; otherwise 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.
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