Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1934, Part 53

Author: Winthrop (Mass.)
Publication date: 1934
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 500


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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-302


N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Ever. . em 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


wald feux (County)


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS


STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


Leger (City or town making return)


Registered No ..


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


2 FULL NAME


Watter& Taylor


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


(a)


Residence.


Nowinthrop Green) Hotel St.,


(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


8 SEX


4 COLOR OR RACE


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


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


33


Years


13


Months


.Days


If less than 1 day


Hours


Minutes


OCCUPATIONI


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


Soldier.


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


10 Date deceased last worked at


this occupation (month and


year) .


11 Total time (years)


spent in this


occupation.


12 BIRTHPLACE (City) Cambridge (State or country)


ase


13 NAME OF


FATHER


william


PARENTS


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Lacy a Hurley


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


Cambridge


(State or country)


La 11.


17 Informant Stru d" 101de Fa ch-4 ( Ad State House, Boston was


A TRUE COPY.


ATTEST:


(Registrar of dity or town where death occurred)


DATE FILED


2>


1984


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


July 21,1934.


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


19 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from


July 21


.193cf to July 21


1934


I last saw halive on


faces 21, 1934


death is said


to have occurred on the date stated above, at 1400 m.


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


chroune.


aartic and initial


Insuffici


Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause: Pulmonary edecca


Name of operation


Date of


What test confirmed diagnosis?


Was there an autopsy fee.


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


If so, specify


(Signed)


M. D.


(Address) For Licenceel


Date


19


21 PLACE OF BURIAL Kaly Chose walder CREMATION OR REMOVAL


(Cemetery)


(City or town)


DATE OF BURIAL


Sucy 24


19844


22 NAME OF


UNDERTAKER


W.C florido.


ADDRESS


Clinton, Laut


Received and filed


JUL 3-0 1934


19


{Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


important.


50m-2-'30. No. 7997-


1


Legea (City or Town) Notation Harfetal, Fault stevens Ward


(If U. S.


War Veteran,


specify WAR)


Ward, le winthrop lease


(If nonresident, give city or town and state)


weare


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


Somersworth


(State or country) n.tr.


M R-301 A


Every item of N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECO 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


Suffolk (County) Winthrop


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 ..


(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, S


give its NAME instead of street and number)


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


(If nonresident, give city or town and state)


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX ?


4 COLOR OF RACE White


5 SINGLE


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


(write the word) Vinge


5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of


(or) WIFE of


(Husband's name in full)


6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


7 AGE.


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


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


11 Total time (years) spent in this occupation


12 BIRTHPLACE (City) Winthrop,


(State or country}


13 NAME OF


FATHER


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


(Penere,


(State or country)


15 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER Buthe MinVale


16 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country)


17 Informant (Address) Bagel


100m-9-'33. No. 9321-a


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


cuarenta


ignature of Agent of Board of Health of Other) Lealthe fficer 7/24/31 (Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


July


22


(Month


(Day) 1934 (Year)


19


I


HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from


June 22


19 34, to July 22


19.3.9 ....


I last saw him alive on


July 22


, 1934


death is said


to have occurred on the date stated above, at J A.m. The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of onset were as follows: Date of Onset IMPORTANT Premo nature Birch


june 22-34


(2 month) .


Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:


citalectasis


June 2 2 -3 +


Name of operation


What test confirmed diagnosis?


Was there an autopsy? . . U.


20


If so, specify


mark


(Signed)


., M. D.


(Address)


Datemiw, 241934


21 PLACE OF BURIAL,


CREMATION OR REMOVAL


Joly Cross Malden


DATE OF BURIAL


July 215


(City or town) 19 34


22 NAME OF


UNDERTAKER


45 Mountains we


ADDRESS 1


Received and filed


AUG 2


1934


19


(Registrar)


1


(City or Town) 0 No Winthrop Immunity NOR 08 total


Ward


2 FULL NAME


(a) Residence( ' No.


(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.) 4) Lage. IL Resteere Ward,


(Usual place of abode)


Length of residence in city or town where death occurred


yrs.


mos.


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


(Cemetery)


Date of


PARENTS


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


Revised United States Standard Certificate of Death


Statement of occupation .- Pre cise 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 of 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 29 "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, 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


1015


Chronic interstitial nephritis


1021


Cerebral hemorrhage


July 5, 1027


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 L S 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 such a permit for the removal of a human body, not previously interred, from one town to another within the common- wealth cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, the certificate of death made as above provided and in the possession of the undertaker desiring to make such removal shall constitute a permit for such re- moval; provided, that such body shall be returned to the town from which it was removed within thirty-six hours after such removal, unless a permit in the usual form for the removal of such body has been sooner obtained hereunder. If the death certificate contains a recital, as re- quired 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 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 by Chap. 48, Acts of 1927 and Chap. 414, Acts of 1931.


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 .... Chop. 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.


ARM R-305


Essex


(County)


Danvers (City or Town) Nanvers State Hospital


The Commmwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


Dan vers


(City or town making return) Registered No ..... 3


(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,


give its NAME instead of street and number)


2 FULL NAME Carah ... Potts


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


19 Elmwood


St.,


Ward,inthrop


' (If nonresident, give city or town and state)


mos. days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX


female


-


4 COLOR OR RACE


white


5 SINGLE


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCEDWidowed


5a If married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE


Zebalon Potts


(Husband's name in full)


6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


7


73


AGE


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.


housework


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


10 Date deceased last worked at


this occupation (month and


year)


11 Total time (years) spent in this occupation.


12 BIRTHPLACE (CityMudWinstowe


(State or country)


England


13 NAME OF


FATHER


William Brett


PARENTS


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


Edwinstowe,


(State or country) England


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Lucy Antcliffe


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


Edwinstowe.


(State or country) England


17


Informant


Gertrude F. Smith,


(Address) Ha thorne


A TRUE COPY.


ATTEST:


(Registrar of city or town where death occurred)


7/31/34.


DATE FILED 19


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


July 22, 1334


(Day)


(Year)


19 | HEREBY CERTIFY that I have investigated the death of the personlafovelnadgd and thatsthe CAUSE AND MEANNER thergof are as follows I'(If an injury was invdived, state fully) 8.1 11.20P


Arteri sclerosis


"Chr. myocarditis


1333


20 If death was due to external causes (VIOLENCE) fill in the following : Accident, Suicide or Homicide ?


Date of injury


19


Where did injury occur ?


(City or town and State)


Manner of


Injury


Nature of


Injury.


21 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceasedno If so, specify


(Signed) H. Tadzel!


M. D.


(Address)


Hathorne


Date


7/20631


22 PLACE OF BURIAL, CREMATION OR REMOVAL ForestHills Boston


Julfcemetery) 1934 (City or town)


DATE OF BURIAL


19


23 NAME OF


R. I. aite


UNDERTAKER


ADDRESS


winthrop


Received and filed 19


AUG 1.0 1934


(Regi ty or Town where deceased resided)


MARGIN ALULIL ... . ... .........


WI


25m-2-'30. No. 7997-6


DE


PLACE OF DEATH


1


.St.,


Ward


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


(a)


Residence.


No.


(Usual place of abode)


Length of residence in city or town where death occurred


yrs.


mos1 0


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


yrs.


(write the word)


1927


HE VA


IM R-501 A


PLACE OF DEATH


Suffolk (County)


No. 40 Willow Ave.


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.


131


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


2 FULL NAME


Mary Ella ( Coonerty) Dow


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


(a) Residence. No ...


198 Cottage Park Road St.,


Ward,


(If nonresident, give city or town and state)


Length of residence in city or town where death occurred


26


yrs.


mos.


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


yrs.


mos.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


5 SINGLE


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


(write the word)


Widow


5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of Alfred Perry Dow (Husband's name in full)


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


If less than 1 day


Hours Minutes


House work


sawyer, bookkeeper, etc.


Own Home


1 1 Total time (years) June 193Ment in this 57


occupation


13 NAME OF -


FATHER


John C. Coonerty


(State or country) Ireland


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Unable to obtain


16 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) . Unable to obtain


17 Herbert .... C ...... Dow ..


Informant


(Address)


198 Cottage Pk. Rd. Winthrop


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 Board of Health or other) Hearthe fficer 7/27/34


(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


(Month)


25


1934


(Day)


(Year)


19 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from 29


1925


25


19.3 Y


I last saw han alive on Je


25


19 34


death is said


to have occurred on the date stated above, at. The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of onset were as follows:


Dale of Onset IMPORTANT


Central Hemontage


War 29 192.5 June 22 1934


Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:


Name of operation.


What test confirmed diagnosis Obscure


Was there an autopsy?


No


20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? 200


If so, specify


(Signed)


(Addre


Writing Man


Datefully ??


19 34


21 PLACE OF BURIAL.


Albany Vermont


CREMATION OR REMOVAL


(Cemetery)


(City or towa)


DATE OF BURIAL


July 29 1934


19


22 NAME OF


Charles R. Bennison


UNDERTAKER


ADDRESS


Winthrop. Mass.


Received and filed


AUG ... 2.


1934


.. 19


(Registrar)


1925 + 1425 +


Date of.


M. D.


1 Winthrop (City or Town) (Usual place of abode) 3 SEX 4 COLOR OR RACE White Female (or) WIFE of 6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here. 7 AGE 74 8 Trade, profession, or particular 9 Industry or business in which work was done, as ailk mill, saw mill, bank, etc. 10 Date deceased last worked at this occupation (month and year) (State or country) Vermont 14 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) PARENTS OCCUPATION (State or country) 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-9-'33. No. 9321-a N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORDDEEvery item of 12 BIRTHPLACE (City) Albany


St., ..........


............... Ward


(If U. S.


War Veteran,


specify WAR)


" P.


.m.


Years


6


Months


25


Days


Revised Und 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 houseke per-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, soap factory, cotton mill, etc.




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