Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1934, Part 70

Author: Winthrop (Mass.)
Publication date: 1934
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19 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That i attended deceased from


Sept .... 4


184 ... , to


Sept .... 26


19


34


I last saw him ... alive on


Sept .... 26


19 .... 34 death is said


to have occurred on the date stated above, at 10 ... 40Rn.


The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of


onset were as follows:


Date ofonset


pulmonary ... embolus


term.


suprapubic.prostatectomy


2. wk8


2.wks.


cystitis


Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:


suprapubic prostatectomy 9/12/


Name of oper


resuture of


wound


9/17


What test confirmed diagnosis?


clin


Was there an autopsy? .....


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


.. no


If so, specify.


(Signed)


W.W. Knowlton


M. D.


(Address)


Boston


Date


9/26 /19 34


21 PLACE OF BURIAL


CREMATION OR REMOVAL


Winthrop


Winthrop


(Cemetery)


(City or town)


DATE OF BURIAL


S.e.pt


2.9


19 .... 34


22 NAME OF


UNDERTAKER


R H White


ADDRESS


Winthrop


Received and filed 19


(Registrar of City or Town-where deceased resided)


1 (City or Town) (a) Residence. No .. (Usual place of abode) 3 SEX 4 COLOR OR RACE W M (or) WIFE of 6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here. 7 1- AGE Years 14 73 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 OCCUPATION: year) 1927 12 BIRTHPLACE (City) (State or country) 14 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) PARENTS 17 Informent Son (Address) tion should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. DATE FILED 50m-9-'31: No. 3385.₦ N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of informa- (State or country) N S


-


Ward


War Veteran,


169


A R-301 A


PLACE OF DEATH


Suffolk (County) Winthrop (City or Town Circuit No. 124


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.


150-


(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,


give its NAME instead of street and number)


La Forest E. Hall


(a) Residence. No.


(Usual place of abode)


Length of residence in city or town where death occurred


7 yrs.


mos.


days.


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


yrı.


mos.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


OF DIVORCED


Devidowed


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


Witcher Hall


(Husband's name in full)


6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


Years


4


Months


4


Days


If less than 1 day .Hours ....


.Minutes


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


Mechanic


Ship yard


11 Total time (years) spent in this occupation. 35


1924


Rockland


13 NAME OF


FATHER


Eli Hall


not Known


17 Daughter


Informant


(Address)


124 Circuit Rd, Winthrop


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


Realthe Oxucis


(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permity 9/29/34


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


Sept


28


1934


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


19


I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from


Que.


10


Sept


28


193.3


........ , to.


1934


I last saw h.I .... alive on.


Sept 2F


1934


death is said


10:30 Pm


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:


Date of Onset IMPORTANT


Chronic Intersticial Neplati


Rug 1933


Chronic myneaudition;


U


Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:


Name of operation.


Date of.


Was there an autopsy? /V ..


What test confirmed diagnosis? Jebewertung


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


No


If so, specify .....


Raymond 3 Parker


(Signed)


M. D.


(Address) Winthrop Mars


Date RAT 29 1931


21 PLACE OF BURIAL, Sca Vique


CREMATION OR REMOVAL


Rockland 11/2.


DATE OF BURIAL


Sept


(Cemetery)


30%


(City or town)


19 34


22 NAME OF


UNDERTAKER


Richard of White


ADDRESS


147 Winthrop St. Winthrop mass.


Received and filed


19


OCT 1 1934


(Registrar)


1 3 SEX male (or) WIFE of " 7 86 AGE OCCUPATION PARENTS information should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state is very important. See instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate. 100m-9-'33. No. 9321-a' : N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of 15 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER


2 FULL NAME 4 COLOR OR RACE White 5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of 10 Date deceased last worked at this occupation (month and year) 12 BIRTHPLACE (City) (State or country) 14 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) (State or country) 16 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country) CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION 9 Industry or business in which work was done, as silk mill, saw mill, bank, etc.


Road


Ward


(If U. S.


War Veteran,


specify WAR)


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


124 Circuit Road.


St.,


.......


.Ward,


(If nonresident, give city or town and state)


a


day 1933.


anna Swimm


(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)


Revised Unitedstates Standard Certificate of Deatha


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, soat 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:


Date of onset


Arteriosclerosis


1015


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 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 ... . 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.


M R-302


Middlesex


(County)


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


State Infirmary Tewksbury, Mass. (City or town making return)


Registered No.


388


(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,


give its NAME instead of street and number)


2 FULL NAME


Matthew McQuillan


(If 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


yrs.


5


mos.


days.


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


yrs.


?


mos. days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


Single


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(Husband's name in full)


Years Months Days


If less than 1 day


Hours


Minutes


Laborer


10 Date deceased last worked at


this occupation (month and


year)


Not learned


11 Total time (years)


spent in this


occupation.


13 NAME OF FATHER Patrick McQuillan


Not learned


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Rose Ann Smith


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


Not learned


17 Informant Hospital Records


ATTEST: Johnist Nichols Suit (Registrar of city of town where death occured) Sept. 26, 1934.


19


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


Sept. 25,


1934


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


19 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from Sept. 20,


I last saw h.1.m .... alive on


Sept. 25


19.34, death is said


to have occurred on the date stated above, at. 4: 1.0P. M.


The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of


onset were as follows:


Dateofonset


Arteriosclerosis


Not learned


Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:


Name of operation


None


Date of


What test confirmed diagnosis?


Was there an autopsy ?.. No


20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? No


If so, specify ..


(Signed


John R. Hopkins


...... , M. D.


(Address)


State Infirmary ... Date


9/25 19 34


21 PLACE OF BURIAL,


CREMATION OR REMOVALWinthrop


Winthrop


(Cemetery)


(City or town)


DATE OF BURIAL


Sept.


28,


1934


19


22 NAME OF


UNDERTAKER


John


F. 0' Maley


ADDRESS


Winthrop


Received and filed


Sept.


25,


19


34


St.,


Ward


(If U. S.


War Veteran,


171


specify WAR)


St.,


Ward,


Winthrop


(If nonresident, give city or town and state)


19. 34to Sept. 25 134


{Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


Tewksbury 1 (City or Town) No .. State Infirmary 8 SEX 4 COLOR OR RACE White Ma le 5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of (or) WIFE of 6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here. 7 AGE 82 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 .. OCCUPATION| 12 BIRTHPLACE (City) (State or country) Ireland 14 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) PARENTS (State or country) Ireland (Address) A TRUE COPY. tion should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. DATE FILED 50m-2-'30. No. 7997 -* N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of informa- (State or country) Ire land


PLACE OF DEATH


CITY CLERK, Winthrop, Mass .


I R-301 A


1 3 SEX Female (or) WIFE of 7 AGE 70 OCCUPATION 14 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) PARENTS 17 information should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state 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 100m-9-'33. No. 9321-a J. D. WRITE MINDREVIER ONTALING DLAUS INAFFITTO IN A TENIVIANENVI ALLUNGO EVOTy ILGILI US (State or country)


PLACE OF DEATH


Suffolk


(County)


"inthrop


(City or Town)


No.


13 Chester 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. 123.


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


2 FULL NAME Mary Jane Driscoll Fielding


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


(a) Residence. No .. I.S ... Chester Ave.


(Usual place of abode)


Length of residence in city or town where death occurred


yra.


.St., ..


.. Ward,


(If nonresident, give city or town and state)


Mos.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


4 COLOR OR RACE


White


5 SINGLE


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED arried


5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


.....


Fielding


(Husband's name in full)


6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


Years .Months Days


If less than 1 day Hours .Minutes


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, back, etc.


Own Home


10 Date deceased last worked at


11 Total time (years)


spent in thisO


occupation.


this occupation (month and 4


year)


2.J


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


East Boston


(State or country) Mass


13 NAME OF


FATHER


John Driscoll


Augusta


Maine


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Rose Cannot be learned


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


Informant .


William


Fielding


(Address)


8 0 ster Are


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


Childress y


(Sigmature of Agent of Board of Health or other)


(Date of Issue of Permit) 10/5/34


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


10


(Month)


(Year)


19 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from


4/30


193 ... . to.


10


-


4


1934


I last saw h. 1. ... alive on 4 193 4, death is said


to have occurred on the date stated above, at 8:40 P .m.


Date of Onset IMPORTANT. 2 dy The principal cause of death and related causes of importance in order of onset were as follows: Elena a lungo. 2 days


Contribatory causes of importance not related to principal cause:


Z


Name of operation.


What test confirmed diagnosis ?.


Date of.


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.


.19 ...


21 PLACE OF BURIAL. CREMATION OR REMOVAL Inthron Winthro


(Cemetery) (City,or town)


22 NAME OF


UNDERTAKER


ADDRESS


Minthoff


Received and filed .


OCT-8


19


1934


(Registrar)


A


- --


DATE OF BURIAL


JohnyTO Makey.


19


(Official Designation) V


St., ...


......... .Ward


(If U. S.


War Veleras,


specify WAR)


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


yrs.


mos.


(write the word)


34


(Day)


4


el


Revised Urenl States Standard Certificate of Death


EXTRACTS FROM THE VS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE


,


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, 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. 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.


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 scen 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 i 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 by Chap. 48, Acts of 1927 and Chap. 414, Acts of 1931.




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