Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1935, Part 11

Author: Winthrop (Mass.)
Publication date: 1935
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 524


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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 cemetery or burial ground in which the interment is made ....- Chap. 114, Sec. 46, 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. If a medical examiner has notice that there is within his county the body of such a person, he shall forthwith go to the place where the body lies and take charge of the same ;...- General 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; other- wise a description as full as may be, with the cause and manner of death. -General Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 7.


... The medical examiner certifies the cause and manner of death to the best of his knowledge and belief.


RULES OF PRACTICE


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


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


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


(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths supposably due to injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or indirectly by traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and by the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, but also deaths from disease resulting from injury or infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, and those of persons found dead.


STATEMENT OF CAUSE OF DEATH


Medical Examiners in certifying to a death will state the cause and manner thereof, and will specify: (1) Under cause, the nature of an injury and of its consequences; and (2) under manner, the mode of its production together with the circumstances when these are known. For example: "Compound fracture of the femur with ensuing septicemia (gas bacillus) caused by a steam railway accident." "Pistol shot wound of the chest with associated hemorrhage, homicidal." "Asphyxiation by suspension, suicidal." "Syncope while under the influence of ether administered as a surgical anæsthetic." "Fracture of the skull with associated internal injury sustained under circumstances unknown."


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


DESCRIPTION (for unknown person)


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


THIS CERTIFICATE CONSTITUTES SUCH PERMIT


RM R-301 A


Suffolk


(County)


Winthrop


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


2 FULL NAME


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


1 Sargent Terrace


St.,.


Ward,


(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 DIVORCED


(write the word)


Divorced


5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of


(or) WIFE of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


Fred .L. Woods


(Husband's name in full)


6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


7 52


AGE


Years 5 Months. Days


Hours ..... Minutes


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


OCCUPATION


10 Date deceased last worked at


this occupation (month and


year)


Quincy Mass


11 Total time (years)


spent in this


occupation ..


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


13 NAME OF


FATHER


Richard Polson


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City) Boston Mass


(State or country)


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Susan Clark


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


Boston Mass


17 Chester L.Mcclintock Nephew Informant (Address) 1 Sargent Terrace


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed With me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: Man. D. Children


(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other) Matti Offices 2/11/35


(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


(Month)


10


1935


(Day)


(Year)


19 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from


26 9


1985


to.


7x 10


1935-


I last saw heam alive on


10


death is said


to have occurred on the date stated above, a 12:20 Am.


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


Date of Onset IMPORTANT


-


7 9 1435


Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause:


1930


Chronic myocardedi


1930


Name of operation.


What test confirmed diagnosis? Che


Date of


Was there an autopsy ?.


, N.


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


If so, specify. Tay


(Signed)


., M. D.


Whatting Mary Date 76 10 1935.


21 PLACE OF BURIAL,


CREMATION OR REMOVAL


Cedar Grove- Dastin


DATE OF BURIAL


Feb


Cemetery


12 1935


(City or town) 19


22 NAME OF


UNDERTAKER


Aulaturnantion


Boston


ADDRESS


Received and filed 19


(Registrar)


1


PLACE OF DEATH


No.


1 Sargent Terrace ..


Ward


Edna Polson Woods


(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.


mos.


days.


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


yrs.


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 N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of PARENTS 100m-9-'33. No. 9321-a


1


(Address).


19.35


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


If less than 1 day


Revised Uuit 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 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 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.


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


1915


Chronic interstitial nephritis


I021


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 .. WS 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.


ORM R-301 A


MARGIN RESERVED FOR BINDING


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 75m-2-'30. No. 7997-a N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of PARENTS


PLACE OF DEATH


Suffolk (County)


Winthrop (City or Town) NO.63 Ioring Road.


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,


give its NAME instead of street and number)


2 FULL NAME


eorgia N. Drury


(Black )


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


specify WAR)


(a)


Residence.


No ..


63 Loring Road


.St.,


Ward,


(If nonresident, give city or town and state)


Length of residence in city or town where death occurred


10


yrs.


mos.


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


yrs.


mes.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX


Female


4 COLOR OR RACE


White


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED Varried


5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of


(or) WIFE of


(Husband's name in full)


6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


7 57


AGE


Years


4


Months


0


.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 ailk mill, saw mill, bank, etc.


Housewife


At Home


10 Date deceased last worked at


11 Total time (years)


December 1934


spent in this


30


occupation.


year) ..


Highland Falls, N. Y.


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


13 NAME OF


FATHER


Austin Black


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


Searsport, Me.


(State or country)


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Zelia R. Stevens


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


Searsport Me.


(State or country)


17


Dr. Adelbert N. Drury


Informant


(Address)


63 Loring Rd. Winthrop, Nass


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filedwith me BEFORE the burial of transit permit was issued: Www. D. Childress (Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other) The alle pellicer (Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)


2/11/35


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


Filemary


10


1935


(Year)


(Month)


(Day)


18 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from


September


193.44 to


February 10


19 35 ...


I last saw her alive on


Fel


y 8-, 1935, death is said


to have occurred on the date stated above, at ....... 7.A.z.m.


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


onset were as follows: .


poraudités


Daloofonset


Cardiac H


ypestrophy & Alatations


3 years 5 years.


Contributory causes of importance not related to principal cause: General Dropany.


2 mois


Name of operation


home


Date of


What test confirmed diagnosis?


Clinical


Was there an autopsy?


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


If so, specify.


(Signed)


Group S.C.


Badger


M. D.


(Address)


435 marlboro St.


Date Fel.10-1935


21 PLACE OFXBEKAK


(Cemetery)


ySor town)


CREMATION AREENWAN't Auburn Cambridge


February 12, 1935.


19


DATE OF BURIAL,


22 NAME OF


UNDERTAKER


Albert S. Nation


ADDRESS


Melrose. Mass.


Received and filed


FEB 11-1935


19


(Registrar)


1


St.,


........ Ward


(If U. S. War Veteran,


(Usual place of abode)


yife in full)


pertension


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 1 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.


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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