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Cunta Salutation y /Heart
8 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Southbridge, Mas.
10 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
Knowyou, Com.
(State or country)
13 Informant
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
12
(If non-resident give city or town and state)
46 Pleasant Park U(d.t.
Ward.
I PLACE OF DEATH
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 Pianter, 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 material worked on may form part of the second stateinent. 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 DIGEAGE 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. Exaın- 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, ete., 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," "Ilemorrhage," "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 will be returned for additional information which give any of the following diseasee, without explanation, as the sole cause of death: Abortion, cellulitis, childbirth, convulsions, hemorrhage, gangrene, gastritis, erysipelae, meningitis, miscarriage, necroeis, peritonitis, phlebitie, pyemia, septicemia, tetanus.
Oct. 12, 1924. EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician or regietered hospital medical 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 shall be issued until there shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk. .. a satisfactory written etatement con- taining the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an original interinent, 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 reasone, 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 employed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, ehall 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 deccased, or as to the manner or cause of the death, which the clerk or registrar may re- quire .- 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; 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 discase 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 discase unre- lated to any forın 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 examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths eupposably 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.
R-301 OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
I PLACE OF DEATH County Suffolk
State_Massachusetts Regi
Boston Ninthw No. Winthrop. Communn
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAD
Ethel Th. Homer
(a) Residence. No.
234 Boudion
St. 1 Ward.
(Usual place of abode)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
· years
- months
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
4 COLOR OR RACE
White
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, DR
DIVORCED (write the word)
Manuel -
5a If married, widowed or divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
Coward F. Home
Months
7
Days
29
If LESS than 1 day,_hrs. Of_ min.
If STILLBORN, anter that fact here
7 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trada, profession, or
particular kind of work
(b) Nama of amployer
FED Houswire
Theluca
Mass
John le. Moore
10 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER
(City).
Newfoundland Y
Velema 6. Martin
12 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Newfoundland
13 Husband, Ed Homena
(Address) 234 Howdien St, Wanelawn Mass
14
de+23 1924
(Month) (Day) (Year)
REGISTRAR
20 | HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stan- derd certificate ol death was liled with me BEFORE the buriel or transit permit was issued.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
15 DATE OF DEATH
65
15
1924
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
16
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
to
Cect
7
1924
lect 15
1924.
that I last saw h en alive on Cet 15 1924,
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at 6 A
m. The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows:
Bunchofa monia
(duration)
yrs ._ mos.
10
.ds.
CONTRIBUTORY (SECONDARY)
(duration)
yrs.
_. mos.
ds
17 Where was disease contracted
if not at place of death?
FOR WHAT ?
Did an operation precede death? no
Date of
Was there an autopsy?
ho If Under One Year, Was Baby Breast Fed
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
Personal location
(Signed)
Raymond B Parker, M. D.
(Address) Winthrop weare
Deta.
lect
16
1424,
(Month)
(Day)
18 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION DR REMOVAL
DATE OF BURIAL
Oct. 17/24"
(Cemetery)
(City or towp)
19 UNDERTAKER
Walter. S. White You
ADDRESS
Official position Hralto officer
Date of issue of permit 10 124
Permit ND 815
- aged Bott
town) which as the » convulsion ..
Ward meningitis, mber) pyemia, septicez.
(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rann,
(If non-resident give city or town and state,
months
days
days. - How long in U. S., if of foreign birth? years
City or Town
2 FULL NAME
3 SEX
Female
6 AGE
Years
31
8 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
9 NAME OF
FATHER
11 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
PARENTS
Informant
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
I. D .- WRITE PLAINYET, WITTT ONTADINO DLAGN THYR ITTTO DO AT LAMANTLITT ALCUNE. LYĘTY RENT On ATUTTIłąCIONI
(State or country)
*23-20M 00.000
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 employ ments, 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," "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, Houscwork, 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 nieEAeE 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 DieEACH 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 niere 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 eause. 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 will be returned for additional information which give any of the following diseases, without explanation, as the soole cause of death: Abortion, cellulitis, childbirth, convulsions,«, hemorrhage, gangrene, gastritis, erysipelas, meningitis, miscarriage, necrosis, peritonitis, phlebitis, pyemia, septicemnia, tetanus.
Oct. 15. 1924 EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician or registered hospital medical 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 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, 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 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 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.
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; otherwise & 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 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 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 injury or infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, and those of persons found dead.
R - 301
OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City or town)
State.
Registered No.
City or Town
W)intirol
.No. ...
No. 5 Wilshire
St., Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
(1) illiam-
(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, glve rank, organization, etc. )
(a) Residence.
No.
à Wilshire
St.,
Ward.
(Usual place of abode)
Length of residence in city or Town where death occurred
years
months
days. How long in U. S., if of foreign birth ? years
mon:hs
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
15 DATE OF DEATH
Ect
(Month)
17
(Day)
(Year)
16
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
Guy
1
1924
to
601-17, 19.
24
If LESS than
that I last saw h WA alive on
Cact-
16
, 19 24.
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at. 9.45H. m. The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows :
Endo carditis chronic -
.(duration) 1 yrs.
mos.
ds.
CONTRIBUTORY. (SECONDARY)
(duration)
yrs ..
mos. .ds.
17 Where was disease contracted
if not at place of death ?
Did an operation precede death ?
No
Date of
Was there an autopsy ?
No
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
(Signed)
Edward Fragen
,
, M.D.
(Address)
7 gruvin Si ..
Date.
1ct
17
1924.
(Month)
(Day)
( Year)
18 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
13 William ;. Toveren
(Address)
5 Wilshire
14 Filed 2023/24 (Month) (Day) ( Year)
REGISTRAR
20 I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stan- dard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued
A. C. Daniele
Official position
Health Officer
DATE OF BURIAL Det 17, 172;
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
19 UNDERTAKER
ADDRESS .
Winthrop
Permit
Date of issue Oct. 17, 1924 No. 816
3 SEX more PARENTS Informant 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 (b) Name of employer
00. 3567.
4 COLOR OR RACE
White
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
6 AGE
Years
17
Months
6
Days
2T
1 day, ....... brs. or ....... mio.
If STILLBORN, enter that fact bere
7 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or
particular kind of work
Student
8 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country
9 NAME OF
FATHER
William +
10 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
E Bouton
(State or country )
11 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
magnet
12 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country )
ABarton
9.39
1 PLACE OF DEATH? County.
( If non-resident give city or town and State )
1924
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 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. But in many cases, especially in industrial employments, it is necessary to know (a) the kind of work and also (b) the nature of the business or industry. and therefore an additional line is provided for the latter statement; it should be used only when needed. As examples: (a) Spinner, (b) Cotton mill; (a) Salesman, (b) Grocery; (a) Forcman, (b) Automobile factory. The 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, ctc. 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 diseasc. 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 operatlon 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, glve 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, pyemla, septicemia, tetanus.
Oct. 17.1924 EXTRACTS : FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physiclan 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 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 belicf 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.
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