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State cause for which surgical operation was undertaken.
(Recommendations on statement of cause of death approved by Committee on Nomenclature of the American Medical Associa- tion.)
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 sole cause of death: Abortion. cellulitis, childbirth, convulsions, hemorrhage, gangrene, gastritis, erysipelas, meningitis, mis- carriage, 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 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 de- ceased, 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 required by section one, where same was contracted, the dura- tion 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 or otherwise dispose of a human body in a town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or other person shall ex- hume a human body and remove it from a town, or from one cemetery to another, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the town where the body is buried. No such permit shall be issued until there shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case may be, 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 suffi- cient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a physician who is a mem- ber of the board of health, or employed by it or by the select- men for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused by vio- lence, the medical examiner shall make such certificate. If the death certificate contains a recital, as required by section ten of chapter forty-six, that the deceased served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been engaged, such recital shall appear upon the permit. The board of health or its agent, upon receipt of such state- ment and certificate, shall forthwith countersign it and trans- mit it to the clerk of the town for registration. 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 require .- Chap. 114, Sec. 45, G. L., as amended.
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.
No undertaker or other person shall bury a human body or the ashes thereof which have been brought into the common- wealth until he has received a permit so to do from the board of health or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the body is to be buried or the funeral is to be held, or from a person appointed to have the care of the cemetery or burial ground in which the interment is made .- Chap. 114, Sec. 46 G. L., as amended.
FORM R-301
DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
State @Mass
(City or town)
Registered No.
112
City or Town Bernice Deldion
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number) derrill
(a) Residence.
No.
94. Circuit Rd
(If/0) S War Veteran, specify WAR)
(Usual place of abode)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred 20 yrs. tmos.
days. How long in U. S., if of foreign birth ? yrs. mos. days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
male
4 COLOR OR RACE
White
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, or DIVORCED (write the word) Manid
5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of (or) WIFE of
Flora Nevers Sevill
6 AGE
Years
- 59 -
Months
Days
-6 -1- 21-
IF LESS than 1 day , ....... hrs. or .......... min.
IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here
7 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED (a) Trade, profession, or particular kind of work. (b) Name of employer Telacroft Organ Lo Doingwell
Organ Salesman
8 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country) quebec Ontario
9 NAME OF FATHER
Prin P. Venill
10 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) (State or country)
My Plement
11 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER
Flora Baldwin
12 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country)
Dufine Quebec
Quebec
200M 7-'28 No. 2787-c
13 Wife.
Informant
( Address)
94 lement Rd Winthrop Man
14
131.29
Filed (Month) (Day) (Year)
REGISTRAR
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
15 DATE OF DEATH
21
1929.
4qnth)
(Day)
(Year)
16 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
, 19 ., to
19
nem
that I last saw hh alive on
July
21
, 19
3:300 .... . m.
natural Causes Cadably angina pectoris
(duration) 2 yrs. T .. 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
For what.
Date of operation
Was there an autopsy
no
What test confirmed diagnosis/
(Signed) Haymond B Parken , M. D.
(Address)
Written Broad Attacks
Date
July
22 1929
18 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMAȚION, OR REMOVAL Winthrop Len (Cemetery) (City or town)
DATE OF BURIAL July 24/29 1
ADDRESS
19 UNDERTAKER
Walter J. Muito Withwhi".
20 I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stand- ard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued
Official positionex
Date of issue of permit.
7/23/21
Permit 16/5 .. No .....
information should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state is very important. See instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate. CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION
LIVELY ILCALL UL
1 PLACE OF DEATH Suffolk
County
OUVinthrop
No.
94. Giraud Rd
St.,
2 -
Ward
2 FULL NAME
St., 2 Ward,
(If non-resident, give city or town and state)
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at. The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows: (State fully)
PARENTS
Pittsburg
Personal muestraget
July
21.1929. Revised United States Standard Certificate of Death (Approved by U. S. Census and American Public Health Ass'n.)
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, Civil engineer, Stationary fireman, etc. But in many cases, es- pecially 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 ex- amples : (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 re- turn "Laborer," "Foreman," "Manager," "Dealer," etc., with- out 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, House- work, 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 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 Caus- ing 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 meningitis") ; Diphtheria (avoid use of "Croup") ; Typhoid fever (never report "Typhoid pneumonia") ; Lobar pneumonia; Bronchopneumonia ("Pneu- monia," 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 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 "Asthe- nia," "Anemia" (merely symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Collapse," "Coma. . "Convulsions," "Debility" ("Congenital," "Senile," etc. ), "Dropsy," "Exhaustion," "Heart failure," "Hemorrhage," "Inanition," "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 peri- tonitis," etc.
State cause for which surgical operation was undertaken.
(Recommendations on statement of cause of death approved by Committee on Nomenclature of the American Medical Associa- tion.)
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 sole cause of death: Abortion, cellulitis, childbirth, convulsions, hemorrhage, gangrene, gastritis, erysipelas, meningitis, mis- carriage, 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 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 de- ceased, furnish for registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief the name of the leceased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died, defined as required by section one, where same was contracted, the dura- tion 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 or otherwise dispose of a human body in a town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or other person shall ex- hume a human body and remove it from a town, or from one cemetery to another, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the town where the body is buried. No such permit shall be issued until there shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case may be, 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 suffi- cient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a physician who is a mem- ber of the board of health, or employed by it or by the select- men for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused by vio- lence, the medical examiner shall make such certificate. If the death certificate contains a recital, as required by section ten of chapter forty-six, that the deceased served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been engaged, such recital shall appear upon the permit. The board of health or its agent, upon receipt of such state- ment and certificate, shall forthwith countersign it and trans- mit it to the clerk of the town for registration. 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 require .- Chap. 114, Sec. 45, G. L., as amended.
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.
No undertaker or other person shall bury a human body or the ashes thereof which have been brought into the common- wealth until he has received a permit so to do from the board of health or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the body is to be buried or the funeral is to be held, or from a person appointed to have the care of the cemetery or burial ground in which the interment is made .- Chop. 114, Sec. 46. G. L., as amended.
02
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Boston : City or town} 7172
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County
Suffolk
State
Registered No.
(Place of residence)
St.,
Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
WALTER H. PURDY
MASS.
(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
No. 53 PARK
ave St.
(a) Residence.
State
(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
months
days
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
4 COLOR OR RACE
M.
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
M.
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
§ HUSBAND
Name of ? (or) WIFE
DELLA Slocum
6 AGE
Years
59
Months
5
Days
If LESS than 1 day, ... hrs. or .... min.
If STILLBORN, enter that fact here
7 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED
(a) Trade, profession, or
particular kind of work.
(b) Name of employer
ENGINEER
8 BIRTHPLACE (city or town)
UPPER CLEMENTS
(State or country)
N. 8.
9 NAME OF
FATHER
STILLMAN PURDY
10 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (city or town)
UPPER CLEMENTS
(State or country)
N. S.
11 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
CYNTHIA MAC KENNA
12 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (city or town)
(State or country)
N. S.
13 WIFE
Informant
(Address)
53 PARK AVE. WINTHROP
14
Filed
JUL 26 , 19
19
GUM Ilenen
Filed
July 31, 1929
Registrar of city or town where death occurred
Registrar of city or town where deceased resided
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
15 DATE OF DEATH
JUL 22, 1929
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
16
I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deceased from
JUL 15
19
29to.
JUL 22
19
29
that I last saw h
I Malive on
JUL 22
19
29
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at.
1 A
m.
The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows: (State fully)
DIABETES MELLITUS AND COMA
(duration).
yrs ..
mos
ds.
CONTRIBUTORY
(SECONDARY)
(duration)
yrs.
mos.
17 Where was disease contracted
if not at place of death
Did an operation precede death
For what
Date of operation
Was there an autopsy.
YES
What test confirmed diagnosis
AUTOP SY
(Signed)
E. M. SMITH
(Address)
Date JUL 23, 1929
18 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL
WINTHROP CEM WINTHROP
(Cemetery) (City or town)
19 UNDERTAKER
J. S. WATERMAN & SONS
DATE OF BURIAL 7-25 , 19
ADDRESS
No. 4312
Registered No.
(F nice of death)
183
City or town
Boston
No.
BOSTON CITY HOSPITAL
City or Town
WINTHROP
fully 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.
PARENTS
N. D.
July 22, 1929.
FORM R-301
DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Mass
(City or town)
-City or Town Winthrop
No.
State 911 Shirley It
Registered No.
St.,
3
Ward
(If death pcgurred in a hospital or institution, give its/NAME instead of street and number) Charles Brigham Comee
(a) Residence.
No ..
911 Shirley " )
St.
3
Ward,
(Usual place of abode)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred ( yrs.
mos.
days. How long in U. S., if of foreign birth ? yrs. mos. days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
4 COLOR OR RACE
White
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, or DIVORCED (write the word) Managed
5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of (or) WIFE of
Othel C. Toute-
Months 4
Days
2/
IF LESS than 1 day . ....... hrs. or .......... min.
IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here
7 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED (a) Trade, profession, or particular kind of work.
ED Manager Kurage Restaurante Cambridge
8 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Male
William P. Come
Gardner
Mass
alice Henry
Fairfield Vermont
13 Wife
Informant ( Address) 911 Thulyst Winthink
11 July 31. 29
Filed (Month) (Dạy) (Year)
REGISTRAR
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
15 DATE OF DEATH
July 25 1929. ( Year)
( Month)
(Day)
16 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from. July 2 1929, to July 25
1929.
that I last saw him alive on July 25 , 19 -7.
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows: (State fully )
2:10 p. m.
Coronary thrombosis.
.mos ....
ds.
CONTRIBUTORY
(Secondary)
Pericarditis .yrs ...
Aduration)
.yrs ..
Pectoris .mos .. . ds.
17 Where was disease contracted if not at place of death no
Did an operation precede death
For what.
Date of operation
Was there an autopsy clinical
What test confirmed diagnosis.
(Signed)
Yacob
(Addr 6562 Alleley H, Cowithup, July 26/1429 Date
18 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOYAL. DATE OF BURIAL LauralHill fermeture Tretchburg
( Cemetery) 1City or town il are 7/29-29
19 UNDERTAKER
Walter . J. Vi
1
ADDRESS
20 I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stand- ard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued
Um D. Children Official Mposition
legent
Date of issue . of permit 7/29/29
Permit .No .. 16/17
200M 7-'28 No. 2787-c
2 FULL NAME 3 SEX Male 6 AGE Years 52 9 NAME OF FATHER 10 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) (State or country) 11 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER 12 BIRTHPLACE OF PARENTS MOTHER (City) (State or country) CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION information should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state is very important. See instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate. N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of (b) Name of employer
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County
Suffolk
(If Ų.]S. War Veteran, specify WAR)
(If non-resident, give city or town and state)
Chaplin
1
Revised United States Standard Certificate of Death (Approved by U. S. Census and American Public Health Ass'n.)
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, Civil engineer, Stationary fireman, etc. But in many cases, es- pecially 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 ex- amples : (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 re- turn "Laborer," "Foreman," "Manager," "Dealer," etc., with- out 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, House- work, 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 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 Caus- ing 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 meningitis") ; Diphtheria (avoid use of "Croup") ; Typhoid fever (never report "Typhoid pneumonia") ; Lobar pneumonia; Bronchopneumonia ("Pneu- monia," 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 intercurrent) affection need not be stated unless important. Example : Measles (disease causing death), 29 da .; Bronchopneumania (secondary), 10 ds. Never report mere symptoms or terminal conditions, such as "Asthe- nia," "Anemia" (merely symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Collapse," "Coma. = "Convulsions," "Debility" ("Congenital," "Senile," etc. ), "Dropsy," "Exhaustion," "Heart failure," "Hemorrhage," "Inanition," By "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 "PUERPERAL septicemia," "PUERPERAL peri- tonitis," etc.
State cause for which surgical operation was undertaken.
(Recommendations on statement of cause of death approved by Committee on Nomenclature of the American Medical Associa- tion.)
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 sole cause of death: Abortion, cellulitis, childbirth, convulsions, hemorrhage, gangrene, gastritis, erysipelas, meningitis, mis- carriage, 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 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 de- ceased, 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 required by section one, where same was contracted, the dura- tion 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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