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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 cemetery or burial ground in which the interment is made. . . .- CHAP. 114, SEC. 46, G. L. (TERCENTENARY EDITION.)
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the ob- servance 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 septi- cemia), 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.
1
¿ R-301A
SUFFOLK
Boston 5/9/38
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD
To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.
63
Registered No.
f (If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
St.,
Ward
give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
JOHN J MCCARTHY.
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
specify WAR)
(a) Residence.
No.
1055 SARATOGA ST, E.BOSTONS.
1
.Ward,
(Usual place of abode)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
years
months
days.
How long in U.S., if of foreign birth?
years
months
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 SEX
MALE
4 COLOR OR RACE
WHITE
5 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
(write the word)
MARRIED.
ba If married, widowed, or divorcedELIZABETH E CONNOLLY
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
7 50
AGE
Years ..
1.Q Months.
.Days
If less than 1 day Hours .Minutes
OCCUPATION
8 Trade, profession, or particular kind of work done, as spinner, sawyer, bookkeeper, etc.
INSURANCE
9 Industry or business in which MASS . STATE work was done, as silk mill, saw mill, bank, etc.
10 Date deceased last worked at
11 Total time (years)
this occupation (month and
4-38.
spent in this
4mo
year)
occupation.
.....
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
CAMBRIDGE MASS
(State or country)
13 NAME OF
FATHER
JAMES CONNOLLY Mccarthy
PARENTS
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
IRELAND.
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
HANORA KEEFE.
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
IRELAND ..
(State or country)
17 ELIZABETH E MCCARTHY RellvignFany Informant ...... 055 SARATOGA STREET E. BOSTON (Address)
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was
Children ISjanature of Agent & Board of Health or of Heft
Theattle Affiche
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit) 4/11/38
18 DATE OF
DEATH
april
9
Month)
(Day)
1938 (Year)
19 I HEREBY
CERTIFY, That i attended deceased from
april 5ª
19.3% to april 9
19 .. 2.6.
.
I last saw h .......... allve on.
april
10
19 38 death is said
to have occurred on the date stated above, at 6. chm. The principal cause of death and related causes of Importance In order of onset were as follows: Date of Onset IMPORTANT Generalized Peritonitis
Ruptured appendis ..
april 54
Contributory causes of Importance not related to principal cause:
Sute Pulmonary Ouderen aux april 9
...
Name of operation.
.Date of.
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
Was there an autopsy ?...
20 Was disease or Injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? If so, specify
(Signed)
Charles
Cataldo
M. D.
(Address)
48 Byron (IX
Date 4-9-1988
MALDEN.
HOLY CROSS
21
Place of Burial, Crematio
APRIL RT2Val
DATE OF BURIAL.
19
22 NAME OF
Charles of Treanor
UNDERTAKER .:
559 SARATOGA STREET E.BOSTON.
ADDRESS
Received and filed. 19
APR 141938
(Registrar)
tion should be carefully supplied.
in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified.
important. See instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate.
PLACE OF DEATH
(County) WINTHROP.
1
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(City or Town) WINTHROP CUMMUNITY HOSPITAL. No.
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(If U. S. War Veteran
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
Age should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH Date of onset and exact statement of OCCUPATION are very
100m 12 '35. No. 6156F
(City or Town)
38
Statement of occupation. - Precise statement of occupation is. very important, so that the relative healthfulness of various pur- suits 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 bus- iness, report the occupation prior to retirement. Children not gainfully employed may be returned as AT SCHOOL Of 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 whatever 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 partic- ular kind of work done and return that, as SPINNER, WEAVER, etc.
In stating the industry or business, avoid the use of such gen- eral 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 ENGIN- EER, 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:
Dste of Onset
Arteriosclerosis
1915
Chronic interstitial nepbritis
1921
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.
A physician or registered hospital medical officer shall forth- with, alter 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 sup- posed 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 hoard of health or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the town where the hody is buried. No such permit shall be issued until there shall have been delivered to such board. agent or clerk, ⺠the case may bc, a satisfactory written statement con- taining 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 re- quired by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter pro- vided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient rea- sons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the pur- pose, or is insufficient, a physician who is a member of the hoard of health, or employed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attend- ing 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 an- other within the commonwealth 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 a removal shall constitute a permit for such removal; provided, that such body shall be returned to the town from which it was re- moved within thirty-six hours after such removal, unless a permit in the usual form for the removal of such hody has been sooner obtained hereunder. 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 ap- pear upon the permit. The board of health, or its agent, upon receipt of such statement and certificate, shall forthwith counter- sign it and transmit it to the clerk of the town for registration. The person to whom the permit is so given and the physician cer- tifying 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. (TER- CENTENARY EDITION.)
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 huried 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. (TERCENTENARY EDITION.)
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the ob- servance 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 septi- cemia), 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.
CIM R-303 B
PLACE OF DEATH
..
Suffolk (County)
... (City or Town) No. 73 Bartlett Read
divan
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS MEDICAL EXAMINER'S 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)
Winslow Boot sher
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced weman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence.
No.
73 Bartlett Rd. Meuthisch
Ward,
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
5 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
(write the word)
Single
5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of (Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
Years
10
Months
23
Days
If less than 1 day Hours. Minutes
8 Trade, profession, or particular kind of work done, as spinner. Student
Harvard University
saw mill, bank, etc.
10 Date deceased last worked at Total time (years) this occupation (month andApril 1938pent in this 4 year) occupation
(State or country) Massachusetts
13 NAME OF
Fred Winslow Fisher
(State or country)
Massachusetts
OF MOTHER Elinor Young
(State or country)
Massachusetts
17 Fred Winslow Fisher
Informant (Address) 73 Bartlett Rd, Winthrop Mass
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued:
svature of Agent of Board of Health orother ) Health Oficer (Official Designation)
( Date of Issue of Permil ) 4/ 2/38
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
april-17-1938
Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY that I have investigated the death of the person above-named and that the CAUSE AND MANNER thereof are as follows: (If an injury was involved, state fully.) Bullet Wound Thru Brain
Presemath Suicidal
Found dead in his home
(See reverse side for description for unknown person )
20 IN WHAT CITY OR TOWN
WAS INJURY SUSTAINED ?
(Signed) ...
(Address)
Busta
Tapre- 17- 078
M. D.
21 PLACE OF BURIAL
CREMATION OR REMOVAL
Winthrop
Winthrop.
(Cemetery)
(City or town)
DATE OF BURIAL
April 20, 1938
19
22 NAME OF
Charles R. Bennison
UNDERTAKER
ADDRESS
Winthrop Mass
Received and filed 19
APR 20 1938
(Registrar)
1
2 FULL NAME
(Usual place of abodeX
3 SEX
Male
4 COLOR OR RACE
White
6 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
7
21
AGE
sawyer, bookkeeper, etc ....
9 Industry or business in which
work was done, as silk mill,
OCCUPATION
FATHER
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
Medford
15 MAIDEN NAME
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
Boston
PARENTS
MOTHER (City)
information should be carefully supplied. MEDICAL EXAMINERS should state CAUSE AND MANNER OF
of Death. See reverse side for extracts from the laws relative to the return of certificates of death.
DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified under the International Classification of Causes
5m-12-'34. No. 2938-8
N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
Winthrop
21
days.
How long in U. S., if of foreign birth?
yrs.
(If U. S.
War Veteran,
specify WAR)
Length of residence in city or town where death occurred
yrs.
10
mos.
3
St., ....................
.Ward
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 regis- tration 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 con- tracted, 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 hody is buried. No such permit shall he issued until there shall have been delivered to suclı 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 elerk 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. (Tercentenary Edition.)
No undertaker or other person shall bury a human body or the aslies 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. (Tercenten- ary Edition.)
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 eertify 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 of 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 eircumstances 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 hy 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
CIM R-302
PLACE OF DEATH
NORFOLK
(County)
(City or Town)
TRUMBULL HOSPITAL
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
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