Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1928-1930, Part 131

Author: Winthrop (Mass.)
Publication date: 1928
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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 "Convulsions ", symptomatic), "Atrophy," "Collapse," "Coma." "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 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.


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


1 PLACE OF DEATH


County


Suffolk


State


Registered No.


(Place of residence'


City or town


Boston


.No.


ST ELIZABETHS HOSPITAL


St.,


Ward


(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)


2 FULL NAME


JOHN DENTREMONT


MASS .


-City or Town


WINTHROP


(If in the Army of Navy of the United States si


got WOODSIDE AVE


Fetc.)


(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 W.


5 SINGLE, MARRIED, WIDOWED, OR


DIVORCED (write the word)


M.


5a If married, widowed, or divorced


Name of


S HUSBAND


2 (or) WIFE


ESTHER S. NICKERSON


6 AGE


Years


16


Months


6


Days


If LESS than


1 day,. ... hrs.


or .... min.


If STILLBORN, enter that fact here


7 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED


(a) Trade, profession, or


COMMISSION MERCHANT


particular kind of work


(b) Name of employer


8 BIRTHPLACE (city or town)


(State or country)


N. S.


9 NAME OF '


FATHER


EVE


D'ENTREMONT


10 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (city or town)


PUBNICO


(State or country)


N. S.


11 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


SUSAN SAULNIER


12 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (city or town)


SAULNIERVILLE


(State or country)


N. S.


13


Informant


WIFE


(Address)


WINTHROP, MASS.


14


Filed


DEC 28,19


FiledJAN - 2 1900


Registrar of city or town where death occurred


Registrar of city or town where deceased resided


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


15 DATE OF DEATH


DEC 24, 1929


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


16


I HEREBY CERTIFY,


29


to


DEC 24


199,


that I last saw h


IM


__ alive on


DEC 24


., 19


29


-30 A


m.


HYPERNEPHROMA OF RIGHT KIDNEY


(duration)


yrs ..


mos ..


ds.


CONTRIBUTORY


(SECONDARY)


BRONCHO PNEUMONIA


17 Where was disease contracted


if not at place of death


Did an operation precede death


YES


For what


Date of operation


DEC 20, 1929


Was there an autopsy


What test confirmed diagnosis PHYSICAL EXAMINATION TR D.


(Signed)


J. G. ARENT


(Address)


Date


DEC 24. 1929


18 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL HOLY CROSS, MALDEN


PATE QE BURIAL


12-27


29


(Cemetery) (City or town)


, 19


ADDRESS


19 UNDERTAKER C. A. ROLLINS


Boston


(City or for 91386


Registered No.


(Place of deam) 190


.No.


St.


That I attended deceased from


DEC 17


19


and that death occurred, on the date stated above, as The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows: (State fully)


(duration)


yre.


mos.2


de.


PARENTS


2


Dec. 24. 1929


..?.. . }.


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5


OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts


Danvers


(City or town)


1 PLACE OF DEATH


(ISSUED UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF GENERAL LAWS, CHAPTER 3BY


County


Essex


statess.


Registered No ..


Registered No.


(Place of residence)


No.Danvers ... State Hospital St


Ward


(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)


2 FULL NAME


Dorothy. Viglas


(If in the Army or Navy of the United States, give rank, organization, etc.)


(a) Residence. No.


(Usual place of abode)


18 Have Way ive


St.,


Ward.


Winthrop


(If non-resident, give city or town and State)


Length of residence in city or town where death occurred


years


months


20


dầys


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


DIVORCED (write the word)


married


5a If married, widowed, or divorce


HUSBAND of


(or) WIFE of


JAMES Viglas


6 AGE


Years


Months


Days


If LESS than 1 day, ........ hrs. or ....... min.


IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here


7 OCCUPATION OF DECEASED


(a) Trade, profession, er


particular kind of work


Housework


(b) Name of employer


8 BIRTHPLACE (city or town)


(State or country)


Greece


9 NAME OF FATHER James Plakas


10 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (city or town)


(State or country)


Greece


11 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER Catherine Plakas


12 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (city or town) (State or country) Greece


13


Gertrude F. Smith,


Informant


Hathorne


14


Filed 12/28/29


19


Registrar of city or town where death occurred


Filed


Registrar of city or town where deceased resided


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


15 DATE OF DEATH


Dec. 26, 1929


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


16 I HEREBY CERTIFY that I have investigated the death of the person above-named and that the CAUSE AND MANNER thereof are as follows: myocarditis


(See reverse side for additional space)


17 Where was injury sustained


if not at place of death?


(Signed)


S. Chase Tucker


.. , M.D.


(Address)


95 Main St., Peabody


Date


8th


Medical Examiner for


Dec. 26, 1929


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


18 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL


dt. Hope


Boston


1


DATE OF BURIAL


2/28/29


(Month) (Day) ( Year)


19 UNDERTAKER


M. J. Cassidy


Boston


20 Burial permit jugo Nappe issued by


Official position


Agt B f H.


21 Date of issue


12/26/29.


19i


(Place of death)


City or Town


Danvers


MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. See reverse side for extracts from the laws of the Commonwealth and instructions. PARENTS


( Address)


at Chan


ADDRESS


36


EXTRACTS


FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE


RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH


A physician or registered hospital medical officer shall forthwith, after the death of a person whom he has attended during his last illness, at the request of an 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 belief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died (defined so that it can be classified under the inter- national classification of causes of death), 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. . - General Laws, Chapter 46, Section 9.


No undertaker or other person shall bury a human body . . until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent . . . or ... from the clerk of the town where the person died; no such permit shall be issued until there shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, ... a satisfactory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied . .. by a satis- factory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as re- quired by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a phy- sician who is a member of the board of health, or em- ployed 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 regis- tration 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. - General 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. If a medical examiner has notice that there is within his county the body of such a person, he


shall forthwith go to the place where the body lies and take charge of the same. . .. . Gen. Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 6.


. He shall in all cases certify to the town clerk or regis- trar in the place where the deceased died his name and resi- dence, if known; otherwise a description as full as may be, with the cause and manner of death. - General Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 7.


RULES OF PRACTICE


The fulfilment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observance of the following rules of practice:


(1) Attending physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons to whom they have given bedside care during a last illness from disease unrelated to any form of injury.


(2) Board of Health physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons who, though disabled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose physician is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.


(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths 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 in- jury or infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, and those of persons found dead.


STATEMENT OF CAUSE OF DEATH


Medical Examiners in certifying to a death will state the cause and manner thereof, and will specify: (1) Under cause, the nature of an injury and of its consequences; and (2) under manner, the mode of its production together with thé circumstances when these are known. For example: "Compound fracture of the femur with ensuing septicemia


(gas bacillus) caused by a steam railway accident." " Pistol shot wound of the chest with associated hemorrhage, homi- cidal." "Asphyxiation by suspension, suicidal." "Syn- cope while under the influence of ether administered as a surgical anæsthetic." "Fracture of the skull with associated internal injury sustained under circumstances unknown."


If investigation shows the death to have been due to dis- ease, specify: (1) Under cause, its known or presumable nature; and (2) under manner, indicate the circumstances leading to medico-legal inquiry. For example: "Hemorrhage spontaneous, of the brain (basal ganglia) (found dead in bed)." "Heart disease, presumably coronary sclerosis. (Sudden death.)"


DESCRIPTION (for unknown person)


Dec. 26.1929.


NOTICE TO UNDERTAKERS: No embalming fluid, or any substitute therefor, shall be injected into the body of any person supposed to have met his death by violence, until a permit, signed by the Medical Examiner, has first been obtained. - General Laws, Chap. 38, Sect. 14.


THIS CERTIFICATE CONSTITUTES SUCH PERMIT


R-301


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts


OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS 1 PLACE OF DEATH County. Sin folk


STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


State


mans


(City of town)02


Registered No.


City or Town.


No


16 E Mam d /-


St ...


Ward


(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)


2FULL NAME


Roger Engine Natter


169. mai


St.


Ward,


(If non-resident give city or town and state)


days.


How long in U. S., if of foreign birth?


years


months


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX


Male


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


23


Months


11


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


(b) Name of employer


Chauffeur.


8 BIRTHPLACE (City)


Winthrop.


(State or country)


Massachusetts.


PARENTS


10 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


Concord


(State or country) North Carolina.


1 1 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Enphenia Hodgson.


12 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City).


Shelburn.


(State or country)


nova Scotia.


13


Eugene. It ulicy


Informant


(Address) 169 mación Muchas :


14


JAN - 3 1830


Filed


(Month) (Day) (Year)


REGISTRAR


20 | HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory stan- dard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued PH.D. Childress


Official position_


Health Officer


Date of issue of permit


DATE OF BURIAL 12/20


34.


ADDRESS


19 UNDERTAKER


C.R Bennison


M. D.


What test confirmed diagnosis


willardley1


(Signed)


(Address).


34 Princeton XC. - Boston


Date Que. 24,1929.


18 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION, OR REMOVAL


(Cemetery)


(City or town)


6


.mos


ds.


CONTRIBUTORY


(Secondary)


Gyelitin.


(duration).


__ yrs ..


(duration)


L


yrs ..


_mos.


ds.


17


Where was disease contracted


if not at place of death ..


220.


For what


Did an operation precede death


Date of operation


Was there an autopsy 200.


15 DATE OF DEATH


(Month)


26,


(Day)


1929.


(Year)


16


I HEREBY CERTIFY , That i attended deteased from


Ace. 21,


1920, 10 Rue- 26


.19.2.2


that 1 last saw


bazalive on


True. 26,


, 1929


and that death occurred, on the date stated above, at


The CAUSE OF DEATH was as follows: (State fully)


at 7-40, 00


2m.


Chrome nephritis.


200.000. 9-26. NO. 6373


Exact statement of OCCUPATION, is very important. See instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate. plied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms; so that it may be properly classified. .


9 NAME OF


FATHER


Eugene Hatley.


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


Ka) Residence. No.


(Usual place of abode)


Length of residence in city or town where death occurred


years


7 months


(If U. S. War Veteran, specify WAR)


12/28/2 Parmit 1668


........ ....... .................. .


(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 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 ony (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 symp- tomatic), "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 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, givo 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, menin- gitis, miscarriage, necrosis, peritonitis, phlebitis, premia, 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 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 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 exhume 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 containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an original interment, by a satisfactory certi- ficate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be ob- tained early enough for the purpose, 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. If the death certi- ficate 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 statement and certificate, shall forthwith counter- sign it and transmit 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.




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