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DESCRIPTION (for unknown person)
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. Scc. 46, G. L. as amended.
Medical examiners shall make cxaminatlon upon the vlew 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 deccased died his name and residence, if known ; otherwise a description as full as may be, with the cause and man- ner of death .- General Laws, Chap. 38. Scc. 7.
. The medical examiner certifies the cause and manner of death to the best of his knowledge and belicf.
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observ- ance 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 ill- ness 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 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 septice- mia), 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 lo occupa. tion, 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 ac- cident." "Pistol shot wound of the chest with associated hemor- rhage, homicidal." "Asphyxiation by suspension, suicidal." "Syn- cope while under the influence of ether administered as a surgical anaesthetic." "Fracture of the skull with associated internal injury sustained under circumstances unknown."
If disease or injury was related to occupation, specify. If Inves- tigation shows the death to have been due to disease, specify: (1) Under cause, its known or presumable nature; and (2) under man- ner, Indicate the circumstances leading to medico-legal inquiry. For example: "Hemorrhage spontaneous, of the brain (basal ganglia) (found dead in bed)." "Heart disease, presumably coronary sclerosis. (Sudden death) ."
NOTICE TO UNDERTAKERS: No embalming fluid, or any substitute therefor, shall be injected into the body of nny 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
R-301 A Suffolk
PLACE OF DEATH
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 103
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
(If U. S. War Veteran, specify WAR)
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.) 54 Highland Ave
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
months
days.
In this community 30
yrs.
mos.
days.
(Specify whether)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
5 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Divorceu
5a If married, wMabder Aivdtoal
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(Husband's name in full)
years
If less than I day Hours Minutes
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
New York
13 NAME OF FATHER Louis sherburne
New York
Of autopsy
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
clinical
20 Was disease or Injury in any way related to occupation el deceased? no
If so, specify
· specify Surdic Dickinson
(Signed)
M. D.
(Address).
Winther, mas
Date June 31940
21 Winthrop Winthrop
Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal (City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
June 2 1940
19
FUNERAL DIRECTOR 22 NAME OF Richard 76 White
ADDRESS 147 Winthrop St. Winthrop
Received cnd filed
19
(Registrar)
100m-10-'39. No. 8427-e
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burint or transit peanit was issued: Min. D. Chil dress & Signature of Agent of Board of Health or over Health Officer 675/40
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue/cf Pernyt)
18 DATE OF
DEATH
May
31
(XIonth)
(Day)
(Year)
19 I HEREBY CERTIFY, may 24
., 19 40 .. ,
to ... May 31 19 40
I last saw how alive on. May 30 19 .. 3 .... , death is said
to have occurred on the date stated above, at Immediate cause of death, .. pyelonephritis
chronic
Due to
Due to
Other conditions (Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
Major findings : Of operations
.Date of ..
.....
PHYSICIAN Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.
Annie Eastman
17 Welfare Dept. Records
Relation, if any
St.
2 FULL NAME
Charles E. Sherburne
.....
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
1940
That I attended deceased from
9:25 Am.
Duration IMPORTANT 6 mos 3 mas
(County) Winthrop 1 (City or Town) 54 Highland Ave, No. (a) Residence. No .. (Usual place of abode) Length of stay: In hospital or institution .. 3 SEX 4 COLOR OR RACE Male White (or) WIFE of 6 Age of husband or wife i! alive. 7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here. 8 2 15 AGE Years. Months. Days Usual 9 Occupation: Clerk 10 or Business: Il Social Security No. None (State or country) N.Y. 14 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) (State or country) N.y. 15 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER 16 BIRTHPLACE OF PARENTS MOTHER (City) (State or country) N.H. Informant (AddressTown of Winthrop information should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state Industry Railroade Express 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
years
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physielan or registered hospital medical officer shall forthwith, 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 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 thercfrom 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 de- livered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satisfac- tory 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 pur- pose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the at- tending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical exam- iner 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 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 removal shall constitute a permit for such removal ; 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 required by section ten of chapter forty-six, that the deceased served in the army, navy or marine corps of the Ur.ited 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 fur- nish 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 ashes thereof which have been brought Into the commonwealth untll 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 burlal ground in which the interment is made. .. . Chap. 114, Sec. 46, G. L., (T'ercentenary Edition)
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observ- ance 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 ill- ness from discase 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 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 septice- mla), and by the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, but also deaths from disease resulting fromn injury or infection related to occupa- tion, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, and those of persons found dead.
Statement of Cause of Death .- Cause of death means the disease, or complication which causes denth, not tle mode of dying, e. g., heart failure, asphyxia, asthenia, etc. As principal cause name the disease causing death. As related causes, name carlier morbid con- ditions, if any, related to the principal cause and any important complication of the principal cause.
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 usual occupation prior to illness. If the deceased had retired from busi- ness, report the usual 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. 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.
SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
R-302
3 SEX remale AGE Usual 9 Occupation: PARENTS 17 50m-10-'39. No. 8427-f after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.) of death should be transmitted on Form R-302 to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased resided as soon as possible Matey Watch veturitu iu your city of town in case the deceased resided in another city or town at the time Industry 10 or Business:
PLACE OF DEATH
WORCESTER
(County)
RUTLAND.
(City or Town)
No ....... monadnock Lodge
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
RUTLAND (City or town making return)
Registered No ...
70
1 (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. { give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
Mary Josephine Molloy
(If deccased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
......
............
St.
Winthrop Mass.
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
Length of stay: In hospital or institution.
(Specify whether)
Rest Home
years
months
days.
4
In this community 2 yrs. -
mos. 4
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
lay.
14
1940
(Month)
(Year)
(Day)
That I attended deceased from
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY.
May 11
1240
to
May 14
1940
......
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
I last saw h ......... alive on .. May 14 . 19.40 death is said to have occurred on the date stated above, at.1 .:. 1.5 .... A Immediate cause of death ... - Duration Terminal broncho pneumonia ....
2 days
Due to
Pulmonary tuberculosis
Due to
11 Social Security No ....
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
East Boston
(State or country)
Lass
13 NAME OF
FATHER
James J. Mulloy
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Newfoundland
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
ary E. IcLeod
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
England
Informant
Mrs. M. Cahill
(
Sister .... )
Relation, if any
(Address)
2. Gerald St. Winthrop
A TRUE COPY.
ATTEST:
Frances . Hanff
(Registrar of city or town where death occufred)
DATE FILED May 14,1940
19
Other conditions
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
PHYSICIAN
Major findings :
Of operations
none
Date of.
Underline the cause to which death
Of autopsy
none
should be charged sta- tistically.
20 Was disease or Injury in any way related to occupation of dcceased ? no
(Signed)
M. D.
(Address)
Rutland, Mass.
Date
19
21 PLACE OF BURIAL,
Winthrop, Winthrop, Mass
DATE OF BURIAL
lay 10,
(City or Town)
19
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
I'rank M. Viles Co.
ADDRESS
Jefferson, lass.
Received and filed 19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
(If U. S.
War Veteran,
spocity WAR)
104
(a) Residence. No
(Usual place of abode)
4 COLOR OR RACE 5 SINGLE
MARRIED
White
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
(write the word)
Single
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
years
6 Age of husband or wife if alive. 7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
8
57
Years
Months
Days
If less than 1 day
Hours
Minutes
Organist
Church
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
If so, specify.
Allan P. Skoog
CREMATION OR REMOVAL
(Cemetery)1940
1
2 .... Gerald
R-302
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk (County)
Chelsea
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Chelsea
(City or town making return)
Registered No.
297-
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
Edward .... J ...... Zeigler
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
19 Jefferson ... St ..
...................
St.
Winthron , Moss.
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
years
months
days.'7
In this community
yrs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 SEX
male
4 COLOR OR RACE 5 SINGLE
MARRIED
white
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
(write the word)
married
18 DATE OF
DEATH.
May 19, 1940.
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of
arion .Ftagerald
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
19 I HEREBY CERTIFY.
Hey .... 13, ..
19
That I attended deceased from
.40
May .... 19 ........... ,
19 ... 40
I last saw h .........; palive on
....... a.y .... 1.9. ... , 19 ........ , 4death is said
to have occurred on the date stated above, at ... 40:40₽ Duration
Immediate cause of death Pulmonary .... edema
.18 ... hrs.
Usual
9 Occupation:
Painter
Industry 10 or Businessı
11 Social Security No.
none
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Pennsylvania
13 NAME OF
FATHER
James
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
York
(State or country)
Pennsylvania
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Frances E. Wolfe
IG BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
York
(State or country)
Pennsylvania
17 Hospital Records
Relation, if any
Informant
(Address)
A TRUE COPY.
ATTEST:
(Registrar of city or toUrty delerkd)
DATE FILED May 19,1940
Received and fled
May 19
19
40
(Registrar of City of Town where deceased resided)
50m-10-'39. No. 3427-f
of death should be transmitted on Form R-302 to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased resided as soon as possible after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.)
1
No.
(City or Town) Soldiers! Home Hospital
GL. 3
(If U. S. War Veteran, specify WAR)
lorld
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
6 Age of husband or wife if alive
48 .... yrs
yeara
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
8
AGE.
4Cars.
9Months.
2bays
If less than 1 day Hours. .Minutes Cardiac .... Decomnoncation
Due to
Rheumatic heart disease ?
15 yrs.
Due to
hhaumatic fever
Other conditions
? Cardiac cirrhosis
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
of the liver.
PHYSICIAN
Major findings :
Of operations
nono.
.Date of.
Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.
Of autopsy
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
clinical
20 Was disease or Injury la any way related to cccopatlen ol deceased ? no
If so, specify
Isadore Kaplan
(Address)
21 PLACE OF BURIAL,
Winthrop Cem. Winthrop
DATE OF BURIAL
22 NAME OF
M. J. Kelly
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
ADDRESS
11 Union -t., E. Boston
I. D.
(Signed)
Soldiers Home
Dato
5/19
40
CREMATION OR REMOVAL.
L'me@8, 1940
(City or Town)
.13
?
York
PARENTS
(a) Residence. No ..
(Usual place of abode)
Length of stay: In hospital or in ourton ....
(Specify whether)
٢٠٫٠
1
JUN241940 A
. R-301 A; Suffolk
NOTIFIE
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health. or its Agent.
106
Winthrop Community Hospital No. William Joseph Zu: Barth
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.s
303 Mavericks
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
stestroopital
years
months 20 days.
In this community 34 yrs.
mos.
days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
(Month)
2
(Day)
That I attended deceased from
19 I HEREBY CERTIFY 1 19 60 They 10, 1990, to ..... I last saw itam alive on Che , 1980, death is said to have occurred on the date stated above, at ........... A.m. Immediate cause of death .... Duration IMPORTANT Maliquant Hypertension ...
Due Penal apoplexy
Due to
Other conditions (Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
Major findings : Of operations
.Date of.
.....
Of autopsy
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
PHYS!CIAN Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.
20 Was disease or Injury In any way related to occopation of deceased? 20
If so, specify ..........................
Fred D' Began
, M. D.
(Signe
(Address) 470S andtom
6
1980
Holy Gross, Mateten
Place of Burjal, Cremation or Removal.
DATE OF BURIAL
June
5 (City or Town)
1940
22 NAME OF
M. J. Kelly
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
ADDRESS
11 Meridian St., F.B.
Received and filed 19
(Registrar)
AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state
information should be carefully supplied.
100m-10-'39. No. 8427-e
PLACE OF DEATH
(County)
Winthrop
TO
1
(City or Town)
2 FULL NAME
(a) Residence. No
(Usual place of abode)
Length of stay: In hospital or institution ...
(Specify whether)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
Male
4 COLOR OR RACE | 5 SINGLE
White
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)
declared -
6 Age of husband or wife if alive
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
8
34 %
AGE
Years
Months
Days
If less than 1 day
Salesman
Usual
9 Occupation:
10 or Business:
1I Social Security No ..
031-09-3089
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
Gast postou
(State or country)
Lucesa.
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
East Boston
(State or country)
wasa.
East Vostre
PARENTS
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
tags.
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
Industry
wholesale Glother
(write the word)
Widowed
Edua Warner
years
Hours Minutes
13 NAME OF
FATHER
James J.M .: Carthy
15 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER Johanna Whalen
17 James IM: Carthy Father Relation if any 21
Informant 303 Clarerick /St., 6.13.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the bugigy or transiy permit was issued:
(Signature of Agbut of Board of Health or other) . Healthe Price 16/3/40
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Registered No .. hospi
give its NAME instead of strect and number) (If U. S. War Veteran, specify WAR). No
East Boston
1940 (Year)
5/10/40
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician or registered hospital medical officer sball forthwith, after the death of a person whom he has attended during bis last illness, at the request of an undertaker or otber authorized person or of any member of the famlly of the deceased, furnish for regls- tration a standard certificate of death, stating to the best of hla 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, wben last seen alive by the physician or officer and the date of his deatlı ... Gen. Laws, Chap. 46, Sec. 9.
No undertaker or other person sball 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 sueb 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 de- livered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case may be. a satisfac- tory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanled, 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 pbysielan, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a physician wbo is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or by the seleetmen for the pur- pose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the at- tending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical exam- iner 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 commonwealth cannot be obtained carly 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 removal ; provided, that such body shall be returned to the town from which it was removed within thirty- six bours after such removal, unless a permit in the usual form for the removal of such body bas 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 appear upon the permlt. 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 fur- nish for registration any other necessary information wblch 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.)
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