Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1928-1930, Part 196

Author: Winthrop (Mass.)
Publication date: 1928
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 1296


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Distinguish carefully the different kinds of engineers by stating the full descriptive titles, as civil engineer, mechanical engineer, mining engineer, stationary engineer, etc. Avoid the term "laborer" when a more precise statement of the occupation can be secured. Do not use the word "mechanic, " but give the exact occupation, as carpenter. painter, machinist, etc. Distinguish carefully between retail merchants and wholesale. merchants. A person who sells goods should be called a salesman and not a clerk.


Statement of cause of death .- Cause of death means the disease, injury, or complication which causes death, not the mode of dying, e. g., heart failure, asphyxia, asthenia, etc. As principal cause name the disease or injury causing death. As related causes, name earlier morbid conditions, if any, related to the principal cause and any important complication of the principal cause. Under contri- butory causes of importance not related to principal cause, name other important diseases or injuries.


Example


The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of onset were as follows: Arteriosclerosis


Date of onset


1915


Chronic interstitial nephritis


1921


Cerebral hemorrhage


July 5, 1927


Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause :


Fracture of arm


Automobile accident


May 3, 1927


In a group of causes containing the principal cause and related causes, the causes should be given in the order of onset, so that in a group of three causes the principal cause may appear in either first, second, or third position. The principal cause in the above example happens to be the second cause given.


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 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 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, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomb other than the receiving tomb to another in the same cemetery, 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 satis- factory 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 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 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 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 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.


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 commonwealth 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 ceme- tery or burial ground in which the interment is made .. . Chap. 114. Sec. 46, G. L., as amended.


State cause for which surgical operation was undertaken.


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.


R-301


Suffolk


PLACE OF DEATH


County)


(City or Town)


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY . DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


(City of town making return)


Registered No.


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


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


Ward,


(If nonresident, give city or town and state)


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


MEDICAL. CERTIFICATE OF DEATH Jefit 29, Day)


1930 (Year)


19 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from


2 193.d., to Sept 24 19:30


rt saw h .. alive on Sept 25.


1930 death is said


to have occurred on the date stated above, at ......... @.m.


The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of onset were as follows: , Lungs Dateofonset Edema 4


9/27/30


1


Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:


Suena uterio Salemais


Name of operation


Date of


What test confirmed diagnosis? Was there an autopsy?


20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? If so, specify


(Signed)


M. D.


(Address)


Date 1.04. 1920)


21 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION OR REMOVAL al (Cemetery) (City or town)


DATE OF BURIAL


Cet 124


19.5.


22 NAME OF


ADDRESS: 60s Kivar J. Poster Place


Received and filed


.19%.


A TRUE COPY, ATTEST: (Registrar)


200M-11-'29. No. 7180-a


1 No .. 2 FULL NAME (or) WIFE of AGE 13 NAME OF FATHER 15 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER 16 BIRTHPLACE OF PARENTS OCCUPATION (State or country) CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. See instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate. (State er country)


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX Male White


(write the word)


4 COLOR OR RACE 5 SINGLE MARRIED WIDOWER or DIVORABY arried Maya Weile


5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(IIugband's name in full)


6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


7 82 Years. .. Months Days


If less than 1 day


Hours


Minutes


8 Trade, profession, or particular kind of work done, as spinner, sawyer, bookkeeper, etc.


9 Industry or business in which work was done, as silk mill, saw mill, bank, etc.


Retired


10 Date deceased last worked at this occupation (month and 31910 year) Et Bonton


11 Total time (years) spent in this 4-5 occupation


12 BIRTHPLACE (City) (State or country) Mass


thu Karry


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER


(City)


Ireland


obtained


17 this Florence Barry


Informant (Address) 91 Minthrough


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: Vm. D. Childress (Signature of Agent of Board of Health or pther) He althe Officer 9/29/30


(Official Designation), (Date of Issue of Permit)


Land Darry


(If deceased is a mafried, widowed or divorced woman, give aso maiden name.)


(a) Residence. No ..... (Usual place of abode) Length of residence in city or town where death occurred 2 0 yrs. mos.


mos. days.


18 DATE OF


DEATH


(Month)


Pars.


Marient


Sept. 29, 1930 2 Revised United States Standard Certificate of Death


-


Statement of occupation .- Precise statement of occupation is very important, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known. Make some entry in this section for every person aged 10 years or over. If the occupation had been given up or changed on account of the disease causing death, report the occupation prior to illness. If the deceased had retired from business, report the occupation prior to retirement. Children not gainfully employed may be returned as at school or at home. For a woman whose only occupation was that of home housework, write housework in answer to Question 8 and own home in answer to Question 9. For a person engaged in domestic service for wages, however, designate the occupation by the appropriate terms, as housekeeper-private family, cook-hotel, etc. For a person who had no occupation what- ever write none.


To be complete, an occupation return must state:


8 .- The trade, profession, or particular kind of work done.


9 .- The industry or business in which the work was done.


10 .- The month and year the deceased last worked at the occupation. 11 .- The number of years the deceased followed the occupation.


In stating the occupation, avoid the use of such indefinite terms as "employee,' "worker, "" "operative," etc. Find out the parti- cular kind of work done and return that, as spinner, weaver, etc.


In stating the industry or business, avoid the use of such general terms as "store," "factory, 'mill," etc. State the particular kind of store, factory, mill, etc., as grocery store, soup factory, cotton mill, etc.


Distinguish carefully the different kinds of engineers by stating the full descriptive titles, as civil engineer, mechanical engineer, mining engineer, stationary engineer, etc. Avoid the term "laborer" when a more precise statement of the occupation can be secured. Do not use the word "mechanic, " but give the exact occupation, as carpenter, painter, machinist, etc. Distinguish carefully between retail merchants and wholesale merchants. A person who sells goods should be called a. salesman and not a clerk.


Statement of cause of death .- Cause of death means the disease, injury, or complication which causes death, not the mode of dying, e. g., heart failure, asphyxia, asthenia, etc. As principal cause name the disease or injury causing death. As related causes, name earlier morbid conditions, if any, related to the principal cause and any important complication of the principal cause. Under contri- butory causes of importance not related to principal cause, name other important diseases or injuries.


Example


The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of onset were as follows: Arteriosclerosis


Date of onset


1915


Chronic interstitial nephritis


1921


Cerebral hemorrhage


July 5, 1927


Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause : Fracture of arm


Automobile accident


May 3, 1927


In a group of causes containing the principal cause and related causes, the causes should be given in the order of onset, so that in a group of three causes the principal cause may appear in either first, second, or third position. The principal cause in the above example happens to be the second cause given.


EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH


A physician or registered hospital medical officer shall fortli- 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 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 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, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomb other than the receiving tomb to another in the same cemetery, 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 satis- factory 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 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 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 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 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 .- Chop. 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 commonwealth 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 ceme- tery or burial ground in which the interment is made ... Chap. 114, Sec. 46, G. L., as amended.


State cause for which surgical operation was undertaken.


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, orysipelas, meningitis, mis- carriage, necrosis, peritonitis, phlebitis, pyemia, septicemia, tetanus.


R-301


SUFFOLK


(County)


MINERCE


(City or Town) 45 Chester


HAve No.


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


(City or town making return)


Registered No.


(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,


St.,


Ward


give its NAME instead of street and number)


2 FULL NAME


Mary A Sullivan


(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)


45 Chester


AV e


St.,


Ward,


(If nonresident, give city or town and state)


Length of residence in city or town where death occurred yTs.


mos.


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


yrs.


mos.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX


4 COLOR OR RACE


(write the word)


Female White


5 SINGLE


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


Widowed


18 DATE OF


DEATH


et.


2


1430


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


5a If married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of


(or) WIFE


Conellus


maiden name of life


(Husband's name in full)


6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


7


AGE


6.8


Years Months .Days


If less than 1 day Hours Minutes


OCCUPATION


8 Trade, profession, or particular kind of work done, as spinner, sawyer, bookkeeper, etc.


Housewife


9 Industry or business in which work was done, as silk mill, saw mill, bank, etc.


Ow n hoe


10 Date deceased last worked at


11 Total time (years)


spent in this


occupation


40


this occupation (month and


year) ..


19.30


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Ireland


13 NAME OF


FATHER


Timothy


Harrington


PARENTS


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Mary Sullivan


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


Ireland


17


Informant


Joseph


Sullivan


(Address)


45 Chester Ave


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued:


Im D Childress


(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other) October 3, 1430.


(Official Designation)


(Date of Issue of Permit)


19


I HEREBY CERTIFY ,That I attended deceased from


19 30, to


2


19 元


I last saw halive on


19.3.12 death is said


to have occurred on the date stated above, at ..


8:30Am.


The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of onset were as follows: Chimasilenttil Date ofonset


Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:


Name of operation


What test confirmed diagnosis?


Was there an autopsy?


20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?


If so, specify


(Signed)


M. D.


(Address)


4 Constantine Date 10/ 3 19 30


21 PLACE OF BURIAL,


CREMATION OR REMOVAL


Holy Cross Malden


(Cemetery)


(City or town)


DATE OF BURIAL ..


/ Cet


1920


22 NAME OF


UNDERTAKER


YahayJ@gmailco


ADDRESS


Received and filed


19


A TRUE COPY, ATTEST:


(Registrar)


CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION


200M-11-'29. No. 7180-a


Surak


PLACE OF DEATH


1


is very important. See instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate.


Date of


14 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) .... (State or country) Irelan à


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


(If U. S.


War Veteran,


specify WAR)


(a)


Residence. No.


(Usual place of abode)


Ccr. 2 . 1930 Revised United States Standard Certificate of Death


Statement of occupation .- Precise statement of occupation is very important, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known. Make some entry in this section for every person aged 10 years or over. If the occupation had been given up or changed on account of the disease causing death, report the occupation prior to illness. If the deceased had retired from business, report the occupation prior to retirement. Children not gainfully employed may be returned as at school or at home. For a woman whose only occupation was that of home housework, write housework in answer to Question 8 and own home in answer to Question 9. For a person engaged in domestic service for wages, however, designate the occupation by the appropriate terms, as housekeeper-private family, cook-hotel, etc. For a person who had no occupation what- ever write none.


To be complete, an occupation return must state:


8 .- The trade, profession, or particular kind of work done.


9 .- The industry or business in which the work was done.


10 .- The month and year the deceased last worked at the occupation. 11 .- The number of years the deceased followed the occupation.


In stating the occupation, avoid the use of such indefinite terms as "employee, " "worker, " "operative," etc. Find out the parti- cular kind of work done and return that, as spinner, weaver, etc.


In stating the industry or business, avoid the use of such general terms as "store, ' "factory,'


"4 mill, " 1," etc. State the particular kind of store, factory, mill, etc., as grocery store, soap factory, cotton mill, etc.


Distinguish carefully the different kinds of engineers by stating the full descriptive titles, as civil engineer, mechanical engineer, mining engineer, stationary engineer, etc. Avoid the term "laborer" when a more precise statement of the occupation can be secured. Do not use the word "mechanic, " but give the exact occupation, as carpenter. painter, machinist, etc. Distinguish carefully between retail merchants and wholesale merchants. A person who sells goods should be called a salesman and not a clerk.


Statement of cause of death .- Cause of death means the disease, injury, or complication which causes death, not the mode of dying, e. g., heart failure, asphyxia, asthenia, etc. As principal cause name the disease or injury causing death. As related causes, name earlier morbid conditions, if any, related to the principal cause and any important complication of the principal cause. Under contri- butory causes of importance not related to principal cause, name other important diseases or injuries.


Example


The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of onset were as follows: Arteriosclerosis


Date of onset


1015


Chronic interstitial nephritis


1021


Cerebral hemorrhage


July 5, 1927


Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause: Fracture of arm


Automobile accident


May 3, 1927


In a group of causes containing the principal cause and related causes, the causes should be given in the order of onset, so that in a group of three causes the principal cause may appear in either first, second, or third position. The principal cause in the above example happens to be the second cause given.


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 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 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, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomb other than the receiving tomb to another in the same cemetery, 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 satis- factory 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 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 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 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 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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