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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.
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment 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 un- related to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attend- ance or whose physician is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.
(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths supposably due to injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or indirectly by traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and by the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, but also deaths from disease resulting from injury or infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, and those of persons found dead.
RM R-301
OCCUPATION 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. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state 100m-11-'30. No. 605-b N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of PARENTS
PLACE OF DEATH
Y(County)
1
(City or Town) .119
Washington ul St.,
Ward
Henry Hutchinson
(Af deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No
(Usual place of abode)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
49 rs.
mos.
.. St., ..............
.. Ward,
(If nonresident give city or town and state)
days.
How long in U. S., if of foreign birth?
yrs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
4 COLOR OR RACE
Mute
5 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
(write the word)
Marvel
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
AGE
7
72
Years
"
Months .
14
.Days
If less than 1 day Hours Minutes
8 Trade, profession, or particular. kind of work done, as spinner, Dealer in Nautical sawyer, bookkeeper, etc.
9 Industry or business in which work was done, as silk mill, saw mill, bank, etc.
Self.
10 Date deceased last worked at
11 Total time (years)
this occupation (month and Nov. 1932
year)
spent in this occupation 50yrs
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
Chelsea
(State or country)
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Charles CHutchinson
14 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) (State or country)
mass
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Isadore Bradley Blais
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
Burton
(State or country)
Mass.
17 Bence, a.S. Nulchemen - wife) .....
Informant
(Address)
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: W i. D. Childress (Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other) We atthe office (Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Pørmit)
1/31/32
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
Jan
30
1932
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19
I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
tam 30 19.3 .. 2/ 93. .... , to ... I last saw h Im alive on Jan 29 19.3.2 death is said
to have occurred on the date stated above, at .. 12.30Am.
The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of onset were as follows:
Date of Onset
Carmona of
Prostate
Contributory canses of importance not related to principal cause:
My rcardito
Name of operation
... Date of
What test confirmed diagnosis however was there an autopsy: 28
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
If so, specify.
(Signed)
M. D.
(Address)
21 PLACE OF BURIAL,
CREMATION OR REMOVAL
Jan
(Cemetery)
311 1932
19
(City or town)
DATE OF BURIAL
22 NAME OF
UNDERTAKER
ADDRESS.
Received and filed
19
A TRUE COPY, ATTEST:
FEB 2 1937 Registrar)
13
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City or town making. return)
Registered No.
No ...
(If U. S. War Veteran,
specify WAR)
Instruments
Revised United States Standard Certificate of Death
Jan. 30, 1932
Statement of occupation .- Precise statement of occupation is ervy 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, ete.
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, soap factory, cotton mill, ete.
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, or complication which causes death, not the mode of dying, e. g., heart failure, asphyxia, asthenia, etc. As principal cause name the disease 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 contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause, name other important diseases.
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
1021
Cerebral hemorrhage
July 5, 1927
Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:
.
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 onc, 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 certificatc, 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.
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment 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 un- related to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attend- ance or whose physician is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.
(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths supposably due to injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or indirectly by traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and by the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, but also deaths from disease resulting from injury or infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, and those of persons found dead,
t
ORM R-302
MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING
N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of informa- OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very tion should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE
PLACE OF DEATH
..... ......... SSOX (County)
1
Danvers (City or Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Danvers (City or town making return)
Registered No.
.....
2 FULL NAME
Lloyd J ...... Jellison
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a)
Residence.
No.
(Usual place of abode) & Centre
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
yrs.
.St., ..
......
Ward,
Winmbhrestent, give city or town and state)
mos. days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
4 COLOR OR RACE
(write the word)
male white
married
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
Elle F. Grant
(Give maiden name of wife in fum)
(or) WIFE of (Husband's name in full)
6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
7
AGE. 79
Years Months Days
If less than 1 day Hours. Minutes
OCCUPATIONI
8 Trade, profession, or particular
kind of work done, as spinner,
sawyer, bookkeeper, etc .......... one
9 Industry or business in which work was done, as silk mill, saw mill, bank, etc ...
10 Date deceased last worked at
11 Total time (years)
spent in this
occupation
12 BIRTHPLACE (City) (State or country)
Maine
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Ivory Jellison
PARENTS
(State or country)
Maine
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Eunice
-
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Maine
50m-2-'30. No. 7997-
A TRUE COPY. Huub Chan ATTEST:
DATE FILED ..
19
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
Jan. 3.0, 1932
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
20,-,19.3.200
Jüri
30
19
19 ..
death is said
I last saw him
.alive on.
Jan.
30,
"32'
to have occurred on the date stated above, at. 8 ... 5-5Am.M. The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of onset were as follows:
Dateofonset
GeneralizedArteriosclerosis
1.929
Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:
Chronio.Nephritis
7-1924
Name of operation
Date of
What test confirmed diagnosis? clinical
Was there an autopsy ?..
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
no
If so, specify
(Signed)
H. A. Padgelt
M. D.
(Address)
Hathorne
295/32
19
21 PLACE OF BURIAL,
(Cemetery)
M'City of town)
CREMATION OR REMOVALIapLewood ... Parsonsfield,
DATE OF BURIATeb 3 ........ 932
19
22 NAME OF
UNDERTAKER
C ...
A ...... Rollins
ADDRESS
E. Boston, Mass.
-
Received and filed
19
Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
important.
17
Informant
Gertrude F. Smith,
(Address)
(Registrar of city or town where death occurred)
2/6/32
St.,. ............. Ward
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
give its NAME instead of street and number)
(IF U. S. War Veteran, specify WAR)
14
No Danvers State Hospital
days. How long in U. S., if of foreign birth? yrs.
5 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
this occupation (month and
year)
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
Kan an 30, 1932
RM R-301 A
N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of 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. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state
PLACE OF DEATH
(County)
(City or Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.
Registered No 15
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
Susan, alici tardec Sanyy
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a)
Residence.
No ...
(Usual place of abode)
2) Groves con
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
25 yrs.
mos.
days. How long in U. S., if of foreign birth?
JTs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF DEATH February
(Month)
(Day)
1932
(Year)
19 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from January 15 ,1928 , to. February 1 1932 1 last saw hale alive on January 31 11932 death is said
to have occurred on the date stated above, at. 3:30 Am.
The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of onset were as follows: Carcinoma of iterno
Date of Onset 1927
Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause: Several carcinomatoris
1931
.Date of. Marche 10 1928 What test confirmed diagnosis? clement kulabitas there an autopsy no
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?. no
If so, specify.
Jacob abramo
(Signed)
.. , M. D.
(Address) 532 Hlemley Rt
Date 2/
193.2.
21 PLACE OF BURIAL,
CREMATION OR REMOVAL
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
DATE OF BURIAL
Fille 3/1932
19
22 NAME OF
UNDERTAKER
CRBannesini.
ADDRESS Tweeters zum
Received and filed 19
FEB G
(Registain)
IWYHU IVAL VINDING
...
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Serge. & Hardie
PARENTS
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
Scotland
(State or country)
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER actions Haseltine
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Coplant
17 Husband ) Henry. I Sawyer
Informant (Address) 2) Cuerno ara
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued:
(Signature of Agent of Boardof Health or other)
Health Officer 2/3/32 ......
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)
5 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
(write the word)
Manuel
ba If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden game of wife in full)
Heury. M. Jamón
(or) WIFE
(Husband's name in full)
6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here
7 21
AGE
Years 1 Months
6
.Days
If less than 1 day Hours Minutes
OCCUPATION!
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 ..
at home
10 Date deceased last worked at
this occupation (month and / year
year)
Birkenhead
11 Total time (years)
spent in this
occupation
25 years
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
100m-9-'30. No. 9954
1
No.
St.,
Ward
2 FULL NAME
(If U. S. War Veteran, specify WAR)
St.,
Ward,
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
3 SEX
ferrena
4 COLOR OR RACE
white
Name of operation.
Excision of cancerous
Revised United States Standard Certificate of Death OFfach 1.1932
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 gencral terms as "store,' "factory,"
" mill. ", ' 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, or complication which causes death, not the mode of dying, e. g., heart failure, asphyxia, asthenia, etc. As principal cause name the disease 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 contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause, name other important diseases.
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
1021
Cerebral hemorrhage
July 5, 1927
Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:
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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