Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1942, Part 29

Author: Winthrop (Mass.)
Publication date: 1942
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 524


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SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION


Y


IM R-301 A


1


inthrop


(City or Town) 3 Elmwood Court No.


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


To be filed for burlal permit with Board of Health or Its Agent.


82


{ { If death occurred In a hospital or Institution, St. {give its NAME instead of street and uuuiber)


2 FULL NAME


Pauline Emily (Hackett) Bacon


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


(a) Residence. No.


3 Elmwood Court


St.


(If nonresident, give city or towu and State)


Length of stay: In hospital or Institution


( Before death)


(Specify whether)


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


3 SEX


Female


4 COLOR OR RACE


White


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


married


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


18 DATE OF


DEATH


Mar


6


1942


(Year)


(Month)


(Day)


5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of


(or) WIFE of


j 7 7 (Give-maiden name of wife in full)


i chael Bacon


(TTusband's name in full)


8%


6 Age of husband or wife if alive years


7 IF STILLBORN. enter that fact here.


8


AGE


80 Years 1.


Months.


.1.9. Days


If less than 1 day


Hours.


Minutes


Usual


9 Occupation :


it home


Industry


10 or Business :


11 Social Security No.


newmarket


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Canada


Other conditions


(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)


IMPORTANT


Major findings :


Of operations


Date of


Of autopsy.


What test confirmed diagnosis?


Physician Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.


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


If so, specify.


M. D.


('Signed) .


(Address) Winthrop Board & Date


Galth ,1942


21 .


ininron


Relation, if any Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal. (City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL


ay 8


19


42


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR.


Charlas R. Bennison


ADDRESS


inthron Kass


Received and filed.


19


(Registrar)


100m (d)-1-41-4667


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial oc transit permit was Issued : Www. D. Childrenfx.


(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)


5/4/42


(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)


19 ... 19 | HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from Christian i "Aquential.


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


10


media


have occurred on the date stated above, at ......


death Is said to


54


m.


Duration IMPORTANT


Natural camer


Due to ...


10


Due to.


tio -vascular- ven


renal disease


Jeans


13 NAME OF


FATHER


James Hackett


PARENTS


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


(State or country)


Canada


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Unable to obtain


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


Unable to obtain


17 lillard IBacon


Informant ( Address) 3 Linwood Court inthron


terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. See instructions and should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF DEATH in plain If deceased was a U. S. War Veteran, G. L. Chap. 46. Seotion 10, requires physicians to Insert a recital to that effect. extracts from the laws on back of certificate.


PLACE OF DEATH


Suffolk (County)


Registered No.


PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT


(Was deceased a


U. S. War Veteran,


if so specify WAR)


(Usual place of abode)


years


months


days.


In this community 58 yrs.


mos.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


Immediate cause of death.


alternance


EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE


RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH


A physician 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 ans meniher of the family of the deceased, furnish for registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the best of his knowledge and behef the name of the deceased, his supposed age. the discase of which he died. defined as re- quired hy 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 ... Cen. Laws, Chap. 46, Sec. 9.


A physician or officer furnishing a certificate of death aa required by the preceding section or by scetion forty-five of chapter one hundred and four- teen, shall, if the deceased, to the best of his knowledge and belief, served in the army, navy or marine corps of the I'nited States in any war in which it has been engaged, insert in the certificate a recital to that effect, speci- fying the war, aml shall also certify in such certificate both the primary and the secondary or immediate canse of death as nearly as he can state the saine. For neglect to comply with any provision of this section, such physician or officer shall forfeit ten dollars. For the purposes of this sec- tion and of sections forty-five, forty-six and forty-seven of said chapter one humired and fourteen, the word "war" shall inclinle the China relief ex- pedition and the Philippine insurrection, which shall, for said purposes, he deemed to have taken place hetween February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety eight and July fourth, nineteen hundred and two, and the Mexi- can border service of nineteen hundred and sixtcen and nineteen bundred and seventeen. G. L. Chap. 46, Sec. 10.


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 ita agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, fromn the clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or other person shall exhunie a human body and remove it fromn 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 froin the clerk of the town where the boily is huried. No such permit shall be issued until there shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case inay be, a satisfactory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied. in case of an original internrent, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law. 01 in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasous, his certificate cannot he obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a physi- cian who is a member of the hoard of health, or employed by it or by the aelectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate re- quired of the altending physician. If death is caused hy violence, the medi- cal examiner shall make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of a human body, not previously interred, from one tower 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 hercunder. If the death certificate contains a recital, as required


by section ten of chapter forty-aix, that the deceased served In the army, navy or marine corps of the I'nited States in any war in which it has heen 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 case of death shall thereafter furnish for registration any other neces- sary information which can be obtained as to the deceased, or as to the manner or canse of the death, which the clerk or registrar unay 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 until he has re- ceived a permit so to do from the hoard 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 he 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).


Medical examiners shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of only sneh 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. G.


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 deatha 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 aa those. of persons who, though disahled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury. have died without recent medical attendance or whose pbysi- cian is ahsent from home when the certificate of death is needed.


(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths sup- posably due to injury. These include not only deaths caused directly of in- directly by traumatism (including resulting aepticemla), and by the actlon of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following ahortion, 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 .- Canse 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.


Statement of Occupation .- Precise statement of occupation is very im- portant, 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 discase- causing death, report the usual occupation prior to illness. If the deceased: had retired from business, 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 occupatiou was that of honie housework, write- bousework. For a person engaged in domestic service for wages, however, designate the occupation by the appropriate terma, aa housekeeper-private family, cook-hotel, etc. For a person who had no occupation whatever write none.


SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION


IM R-301 A


PLACE OF DEATH


Suffolk (County)


Winthrop


(City or Town)


No. 45 Floyd


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.


St.


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


2 FULL NAME


Louis Clifton Smith


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


45 Floyd


St


(If nonresident, give city or town and state)


In this community


yrs.


mos.


days.


(Specify whether)


35 years


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX


Male


4 COLOR OR RACE


white


5 SINGLE


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


(write the word)


5a If married, widowedtor divor HUSBAND of


ivorceddlyn Holden


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of


(Husband's name in full)


6 Age of husband or wife if alive .....


.years


7 IF STILLBORN. enter that fact here.


AGE


85xe


5


Months.


21


Days


If less than 1 day


Hours


Minutes


Usual


9 Occupation :.


owner


Industry


Laundry Machinery


10 or Business:


11 Social Security No.


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


massachusetts


13 NAME OF


FATHER


Villiam Smith


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


Granby


(State or country)


massachusetts


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


helen Barton


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City).


Granby


(State or country) Massachusetts


17


Relation, if any


Bertha smith wife


Informant.


(Address)


45 Floyd St.,


Winthrop


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: Www. D. Children8 (Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)


Health Officer 5/15/45


(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit) /


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH.


may


13


1942


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


19


I HEREBY CERTIFY,


That I attended deceased from


19 40 to May 13


.. ,


19 42


I last saw h hr alive on may 13


....... , 19.5. 2, death is said to


have occurred on the date stated above, at.


10 ps


m.


Immediate cause of death.


......


Duration IMPORTANT


2.6


Due to.


Due to


Other conditions.


Sesli


(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)


IMPORTANT


PHYSICIAN


Major findings: Of operations.


Date of.


Of autopsy.


What test confirmed diagnosis?


Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- Istically.


20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? 200 If so, specify Tous & Sales (Signed (Address) 175 1 leas and ST


M. D.


Date May 14/1942


21. South Hadley Cemetery Jonth odley Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal. DATE OF BURIAL LO7 16


(City or Town)


Falls


19+


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR.


Ches.


E. emnison


ADDRESS


inthron, 12SS.


Received and filed. MAY 1 5 1942 19


(Registrar)


8 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 PLAINLI, WIIN UNFADING DLACA INA-SUN ALINANINA. PARENTS 100m-2-'40-D-729-a


1


Registered No ..


(If U. S.


War Veteran,


specify WAR).


(a) Residence. No.


(Usual place of abode)


Length of stay: In hospital or institution ..


years


months


days.


57


EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE


RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH


A physician or registered hospital medical officer shall forthwith, after the death of a person whoin 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 receiv- ing 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 satisfactory 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 in- sufficient, a physician who is a member of the board of health, or em- ployed 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 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 re- moval 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 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., (Tercentenary Edition).


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 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 .- 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.


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 business, 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


IM R-301 A !


PLACE OF DEATH


Suffolk (County)


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, St. [ give its NAME instead of street and number)


2 FULL NAME


Abbie Agnes (Gammell) Dixon


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


45 Winthrop Street


St


(If nonresident, give city or town and state)


Length of stay: In hospital or institution.


Hospi.t.a l __ years -months 5


days.


(Specify whether)


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


4 COLOR OR RACE


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


OF DIVORCED Married


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of


Howard A S Dixon


(Husband's name in full)


P6 Age of husband or wife if alive


64


.years


7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


AGE


Years


Months.


Days


If less than 1 day Hours Minutes


9 Occupation :


Housewife


11 Social Security No.


None


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


Charles town


(State or country) Mas's.


13 NAME OF


FATHER


Warren Gammel1


Boston


FATHER (City) ....


(State or country)


Mass.


?


North


16 BIRTHPLACE OF :.


.


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


Mass .


Shirley


17 Howard A Dixon


Relation, if any


Husband


Informant.


(Address)


45 Winthrop St. Winthrop Mass


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


(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)


H.O may 15/42.


(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)


18 DATE OF


DEATH


(Month)


(Day)


That I attended deceased from


19


I HEREBY CERTIFY.


.....


1944 to


.... ,


19 Ye


I last saw him alive on


hey 13, 19/2, death is said to


have occurred on the date stated above, at.


4.201


m.


Immediate cause of death.


Duration IMPORTANT


Due


Due to.


.....


Other conditions.


(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)


Major findings:


Of operations


Date of


Of autopsy


What test confirmed diagnosis?


-


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


If so, specify.


(Signed)


(Address) Y Washingtonich Date 5-15/


M. D.


18 4/


21


Winthrop


Winthrop.


Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal.


(City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL.


May


17


1942


....


22 NAME OF


Howard SUIngsaldo


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


ADDRESS


uminos mais.


MAY 1 8 182


Received and filed


Donald Smc Lead


(Registrar)


IMPORTANT PHYSICIAN


Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.


1


Winthrop


(City or Town)


J


(a) Residence. No.


(Usual place of abode)


3 SEX


Female |White


Sa If married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of ..


per voting list


8


72


4


2


Usual


10 or Business:


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


PARENTS


·


100m-2-'40-D-729-a


N. B .- WRITE PLAINLI, WIIN UNFADING DUMCA INITAAU AU


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


Industry


Own Home


No Community Hospital


(If U. S.


War Veteran,


specify WAR!


In this community7


yrs. - mos. - days.


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


14


1942


(Year)


EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE


RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH


A physician 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 registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the host of his knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died, defined as required hy section one, where same was contracted, the duration of his last iliness, when last seen alive hy 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 huried, until he has received a permit from the hoard 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 hody and remove it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomh other than the receiv- Ing tomh to another in the same cemetery, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent aforesald 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, as the case may be, a satisfactory written statement containing the facts required hy law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, In case of an original interment, hy a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as herelnafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficlent reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or Is in- sufficient, a physician who Is a member of the board of health, or em- ployed hy It or hy the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused hy 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 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 he 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 re- moval of such body has been sooner ohtalned hereunder. If the death certificate contains a recital, as required hy section ten of chapter forty- slx, 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 recltal 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 certifylng the cause of death shall thereafter furnish for registration any other necessary information which can he obtained as to the deccased, 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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