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that I last saw h
alive on
19
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at. The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows: (State fully) · Fractured Skull
m.
1 (Rear End Collision Jautomobi
· (duration)
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
For what
Date of operation
Was there an autopsy If under one year, was infant Breast Fed?
What test confirmed diagnosis
(Signed)
, M. D.
(Address)
Date
18 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL, Well, Genre
D
DATE OF BURIAL AUG 6 1929
(Cemetery)
(City or town)?
19 UNDERTAKER ManuelStoretely
Permit .No.
6 AGE 24 Years AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state 8 BIRTHPLACE (City) (State or country) 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) 13 Informant ( Address) . 14 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 information should be carefully supplied. N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK- THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of (b) Name of employer
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City or town)
117
2 FULL NAME
Rose Liber
26 Wave Way Owe
(a) Residence.
No ..
(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 ?
Mr. Liberman 26 Wave Way Que AUG 8 without
Revised United States Standard Certificate of Death (Approved by U. S. Census and American Public Health Asa'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., F'armer 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- " "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, atter 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 sufhi- 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.
1
ways write with ink.
CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH TRANSIT PERMIT
No.
PERMIT OF LOCAL REGISTRAR
To remove a dead body for burial beyond the limits of the town in which death occurred, a transit permit
must be obtained from the local Registrar
Clase Lieber man
Aug 5 1989
me of Deceased
24
e, years
months
days.
Race or Color
automobile
use of Death (1) Fractured skull
Mer and collision ?
ending Physician Ralph N. Crane Julical
Address
examine
ce of Death. Darin Com
Embalmer
Jahres
No. 727
dertaker Thomas & Pritchard
Address Stanford Cium
The body has been prepared for removal and shipment in accordance with Rule. of the Rules and Regulations of the STATE PARTMENT OF HEALTH.
The Certificate of Death and the undertaker's statement that all proper measures have been taken to render the body harmless shipping, having been filed and recorded, PERMISSION IS HEREBY GRANTED FOR REMOVAL OF THE ABOVE NAMED DY,
Danke Com
TO Everett Maso
expres
Date of Shipment
Aug5-1929
at harhammond
Aug 5 1929
Registrar of
Danke Cour
m S-9 7-27-10M
EXTRACTS
OM
Finale
Date of Death
Mits
(2) stating mell al
aug. 5. 1929.
CONNECTICUT STATE DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH Bureau of Vital Statistics
COPY
Medical Certificate of Death
1. Full name of deceased.
Rose .... Lieberman
2. Primary cause of death
Fractured Skull as
a result of rear
Duration
days
If death from violent cause state (1) means and nature of injury (2) whether accidental, suicidal or homicidal.
end collision f automobile striking truck at Darien Ct.
4. Secondary or contributory
August ... 5., .... 19.29
5. Duration
days
Remarks
viewed the deceased as Med. Exam
I certify that I attended the dec
XMaschilihess, and that the cause of death
was as above stated.
Signature
Ralph W. Crame M. D.
Med. Ex.
Capacity in which he signs
Dated.
August 5th
1929
Address ... Stamford .... Conn.
Undertaker's Certificate
1. Full name of deceased
Rose Lieberman
2. Place of death-Town
Darien
No.Post Road
Street,
Ward
If death occurred in hospital or institution, give its name instead of street and number.
3. Number of families in house.
4. Residence at time of death.
Winthrop
Mass.
5. Occupation
Stenographer
Town
State or Country
6. Condition (state whether single, married, divorced or widowed).
Single
7. If wife or widow, give name of husband
8. Date of death-year
1929
month
August
day
5
9. Date of birth-year
1905
month unknown
day unknown
10. Age in years
24
months
-
days
11. Sex ..
Female
12. Color
White
13. Birthplace-Town
Winthrop
State or Country
Mass.
14. Father's name in full
Max Liberman
15. Father's birthplace-Town
State or Country .... Russia
16. Mother's maiden name
Bertha Snider
Russia
Registrar.
I certify that this is a true copy of the certificate received for record.
anna 5. Com
Attest,
isst.
This Certificate received for record on the. ....... 5. day of August 19 29
J. A. F. MacCammond
Registrar. Place of Burial. Cemetery.
This copy of Certificate received for record at
this ........ day of 19
Registrar.
)2
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Rutland
City or town)
Registered No.
127
( Place of death)
Registered No.
(Place of residence)
St.,
Ward
2 FULL NAME
Ida Stevenson
(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)
(a) Residence.
State
Mass.
City or Town
Winthrop
No.
115 Toring Roadst.
(Usual place of abode)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
years 5
months : days.
How long in U. S., if of foreign birth?
years
months
day
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
Female
4 COLOR OR RACE
bite
5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR
DIVORCED (write the word)
Married
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
Name of & HUSBAND
2 (or) WIFE
Chester W.Stevenson
6 AGE
Years
22
Months 8
Days
6
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
Housewife
(b) Name of employer
8 BIRTHPLACE (city or town)
Salem,
(State or country)
Mass.
9 NAME OF
FATHER
Malcolm J.McBride
10 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (city or town)
Grove City,
(State or country)
Pa.
11 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Bridget Ofalley
12 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (city or town)
(State or country)
Iroland
13
Informant
From Sanatorium Records
(Address)
14
Filed \Llo.9
1920 Louis Mr. Stauff
Registrar of city or town where death occurred
19-
1 Registrar of city or town where deceased resided
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
15 DATE OF DEATH
Aumust
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
16
That I attended deceased from
I HEREBY CERTIFY,
Fcb. 15
19220, to.
August 8
19
20
that I last saw her
alive on
August S
19 29
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at
The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows: (State fully)
6 :15 p.
m.
Pulmonary tuberculosis
(duration)
11
mos
12 ds.
CONTRIBUTORY
(SECONDARY)
17 Where was disease contracted
if not at place of death
(duration)
yrs ..
mos.
ds.
Did an operation precede death
No
For what.
Date of operation
Was there an autopsy
What test confirmed diagnosis.
Xray & laboratory
(Signed)
William R. Davidson
M. D.
Date Mig. 8, 1929
18 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL Oak Grove, Vedford, Mass.
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
19 UNDERTAKER 1.E.Long & Son
DATE OF BURIAL
[I]. 11, 19 :? "
ADDRESS
Cambridge
No. 4312
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.
1 PLACE OF DEATH
County
worcester
State
Nass.
City or town
Rutland
No .-
Rutland State Sanatorium
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
1970
yrs.
PARENTS
(Address)
Rutland, Nass.
ung. 8.1927
ORM R-301
DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
The Commonwealth of Massachuset's
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
BOSTON
1 PLACE OF DEATH County
Suffolk-
State Massachusetts Colorado
(City or town)
8
City or Town
Boston Mag V Bratran
(If death occurred in a hospital er institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
(M U. S. War Veteran, specify WAR)
(a) Residence.
(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
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
15 DATE OF DEATH
8/13/29
( Month )
( Day) (Year)
16 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from. 19 to
19
,
that I last saw h
alive on
19
6 AGE
Years
Months
Days
0
IF LESS than 1 day . ....... hrs. or .......... min.
10
IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here
7 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED (a) Trade, profession, or particular kind of work.
DECEASED Stenographer
(b) Name of employer
8 BIRTHPLACE (City) (State or country)
mass.
9 NAME OF FATHER
Max Bostorm
PARENTS
10 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) (State or country)
11 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER
Sweden Olan Fundotill
12 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country)
Leveden
Date
18 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR' REMOVAL
DATE OF BURIAL 18.24
( Cemetery ) ( City or town)
19 UNDERTAKER (S). Bennison
ADDRESS
14 Filed -) ...........
21
AUG 1 7 1929
REGISTRAR
(Month) , (Day) (Year)
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 position
Date of issue . of permit
Permit No. 3281
0-2011.
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
200M 7-'28 No. 2787-c
13 Martin Bostrom Informant ( Address) 1 Brother
"What test confirmed diagnosis
(Signed)
, M. D.
(Address)
(duration) Zamanqual Interestin Muuration) .. .. yrs. .. ¿s. .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 If under one year, was infant Breast Fed?
and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows: (Stafe-fully)) „m. Pulmonary later culosis
CONTRIBUTORYS (Secondary)
3 SEX Female Schuite Jungle
4 COLOR OR RACE
5 SINGLE, MARRIED. WIDOWED, or DIVORCED (write the word)
5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of (or) WIFE of
St., ................ Ward,
(If non-resident, give city or town and state)
Registered No ... SprayWard
information should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state
aug. 13.1929.
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,"" "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 wole 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.
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