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Registered No.
1.02.
§ (If death occurred in a hospital or institution. ¿ give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME.
David Lawrence Willims
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No.
110 Summit Avenue
St
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
Length of stay: In hospital or institution
None
(Specify whether)
years
months
days.
In this community3
yrs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
4 COLOR OR RACE
White.
5 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Married
Sa If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of ....
Sara A. Mulvanity.
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
6 Age of husband or wife if alive.
60
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
8
AGE
67
Years
Month
If less than 1 day
Hours
Minutes
9 Occupation :
Retired ..
Industry
Physician.
11 Social Security No ..
None ..
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Boston Mass,
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Charles Williams.
14 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) (State or country) Germany.
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Catherine Hennessey.
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Ireland.
17 Relation, if any
Sara A. Williams.
Wife.
Informant. (Address) 110 Summit Ave.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: Mmo. Children (Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other) Health Officer 6/8/47
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)
(write the word)
DEATH.
18 DATE OF
June 7,1942
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19
I HEREBY CERTIFY.
That I attended deceased from
19
to
;- 19
I last saw h
alive on.
19
death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at.
2
A
m.
Immediate cause of death ...
Duration IMPORTANT
Due to.
Due to
Other conditions. (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- tistically.
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?. ...........
If so, specify
(Signed), reforma
M. D.
21
Place of Burial, Crema Info Proval def ty Brann +2
DATE OF BURIAL
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR A. P.Cleany (and Son .
ADDRESS 1605 Tremont St. Boston.
Received and filed. 18
BU.N .... S.
1942
(Registrar)
1DM - A - 1-4 2 - 8511
1 3 SEX Male. (or) WIFE of. Usual PARENTS 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 10 or Business:
PLACE OF DEATH
No. 110 Summit Avenue
... .......... .....
St.
(If U. S.
War Veteran
specify WAR)
worlds
(Usual place of abode)
.........
....
(Husband's name in full)
.years
.Days
,
JR-301 S
PLACE OF DEATH
SUFFOLK (County) WINTHROP (City or Town)
No. 42 Summande Que
2 FULL NAME JOHNE.KEOGH
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
42 SUNNYSIDE
70€
St ..........
WINTHROP MASS
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
months
days.
In this community ) 0 yra.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
(write the word)
1 Fogg g
.years
If Less than I day
Hours
Minutes
II Social Security No ...... Buelow mer
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Jakup Co Keogh
1OM - A- 1-42 - 8511
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: Www. D. Children (Signature of Agent of Board of Health'or other)
Health Officer 6/12/42
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
48 DATE OF
DEATH ..
10
1942 ...
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
18 HEREBY CERTIF
19 .. +4. to
That I attended deceased from O
19
8 .. , 19 ... , death is said to
I last saw halive on. have occurred on the date stated above, at 7.308 Immediate cause of death ....
.m.
Duration
IMPORTANT
....
-....
arterioscleras
Due to.
Due to.
Other conditions. (Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
Major findings: Of operations.
Of autopsy ..
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.....
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?......
If so, specify .....
(Signed) ..
M. D.
(Address) ...
21 .. Jeaty Piace Mallen .... Place of Burial, Cremation br Removal. (City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL .........
18 42
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR Tubes Dice
ADDRESS 260 Quetu ex
Received and filed DEN: 1.3 194
.18
(Registrar)
per ms. Kirby
information suvulu vo calci ully supplicu.
.. I (a) Residence. No. (Usual place of abode) Length of stay: In hospital or institution ... (Specify whether) 3 SEX 4 COLOR OF RACE I hate. Male Sa If married HUSBAND of. (Give maiden name of wife in full) (or) WIFE of. (Husband's name in full) 6 Age of husband or wife if alive. 7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here. 8 .. Months. AGE .. 2 ... Years ......... Days Usual 9 Occupation :... Stack Ysuper 10 or Business: 12 BIRTHPLACE (City). (State or country) 14 BIRTHPLACE OF Ireland FATHER (Zity) ...... (State or country) IS MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER PARENTS 16 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) ...... (State or country) teland Informant (Address) is very important. See instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificato. CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION Industry City of Buxton
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.
103
Registered No
§ (If death occurred in a hospital or institution. { give its NAME instead of street and number)
St.
Relation, if Any
17 Helen unligero (domates)
Margaret Welch
Date of.
IMPORTANT PHYSICIAN
Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.
....
in Date 6 -08 1842
A. M
5 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
Or DIVORCED
years
(If U. S.
War Veteran.
specify WAR)
OM R-302
-
1
PLACE OF DEATH
SUFFOHA BOSTONJ
(City or Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
BOSTON
(City or town making return)
Registered No.
~ (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St.
give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
Philin J
Bradley
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
100 Washington Ave
St.
Winthron
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In hospital or Institution.
(Before death)
(Specify whether)
years
months
days.
In this community
yrs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
Nale
4 COLOR OR RACEJ
white
5 SINGLE
(write the word)
married
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)
6 Age of husband or wife If alive years
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
8
AGE
49 Years.
9
Months.
4
Days
If less than 1 day
Hours
Minutes
Usual
9 Oocupation :
Industry
Merchant Marine
10 or Business :
11 Social Security No ...
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Boston Mass
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Richard Bradley
PARENTS
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Boston
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Margaret Graham
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
Boston
(State or country)
17
Informant.
(Address)
Hospital
Relation, if any
A TRUE COPY.
ATTEST :
(Registrar of city of town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
6/15/40
19
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
June 77 7942
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
6/4/42
19
That I attended deceased from
to
0/77/42
19
I last saw h .... ][ ..... allve on
6/11/42
19
death Is sald to
have occurred on the date stated above, at.
5 P
m.
Duration
Immediate oause of death
carcinoma of stomach with
extencio:
over
2:00
"Due to inanition
Due to.
Other conditions.
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
Physician
Major findings :
Of operations
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 In any way related to oooupation of deceased ?
If so, speolfy
(Signed)
R P
Sandide
M. D.
(Address)
Boston
Date 6/12/19 40
21 PLACE OF BURIAL,
CREMATION OR REMOVAL ..
Winthron
(Cemetery) 74 794 (City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
19
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
C R .... Bennison
ADDRESS
inthnon
Received and filed JUL 3
"1542
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
50m (e)-1-41-4667
of the city or town in which the deceased resided. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.) resided in another city or town at the time of death should be made forthwith and transmitted on Form R-802 to the clerk Copies of returns or oeatna recorded during the previous month which occurred in your city or town in case the deceased WRITE PLAINLY. WITH UNFADING BLACK INK
THIS IS A PERMANENT DEPODA
No.
US Marine Hospital
(If U. S.
War Veteran,
(a) Residenoe. No.
(Usual place of abode)
Selma Peterson
54
to liver and transverse colo
Pwks
RM R-301 !|
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 200m-10-139. No. 8427-d per mr. O'malley
Suffolk
(County)
Winthrop
(City or Town)
No.
260 Bowdion St
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City or town making return)
Registered No.
105
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. \ give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
Marv A. G. Jones
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
260 Bowdoin
.St.
(If nonresident, give, city or town and state)
months
days.
In this community 4
yrs. - mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
Female
4 COLOR OR RACE
White
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)
6 Age of husband or wife if alive. .years
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
8
60
Years
Months
.Days
If less than I day
Hours.
.. Minutos
Usual
9 Occupation:
Teacher
10 or Business:
Boston Schools
II Social Security No.
None.
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
Boston
(State or country)
MASS
13 NAME OF
FATHER
James A. Jones
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Florida
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Ann
Callahan
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Ireland
Informant.
Clotilde Jones
Relation, if any SISter
(Address)
260 Bowdoin Str
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: Nie. . Childrens- (Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
Healthe Officer 6/12/42 (Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
(Month)
11
(Day)
194
(Year)
19| HEREBY CERTIFY. That I attended deceased from
1
1988, to former 11
19.
last saw halive on July 11, 19 h death is said Duration to have occurred on the date stated above, at 9:10Pm. Immediate cause of death ... ante redema lungo acure
2 May ...
Due to
antonio
saluti
Due to
Abutensión
Other conditions
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
PHYSICIAN
Major findings :
Of operations
Date of
Of autopsy
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
20 Was disease or lojury In any way related to occupation al deceased ?
If so, specify.
(Signed) thisalten n Dato 6-11- 1942
(Address).
21
St.
Boston
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal. 19 To(City or Town) DATE OF BURIAL ..... 1.1ne John F. OMalen
......... ADDRESS iinthrop
Received and filed. UN 1 6 1942
19
A TRUE COPY ATTEST:
(Registrar)
(If U. S. War Veteran. specify WAR)
(a) Residence. No ..
(Usual place of abode)
Length of stay: In hospital or institution
years
(Specify whether)
1 PLACE OF DEATH 3 SEX AGE PARENTS 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
Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.
M. D.
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
GOVERNING THE
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician or registered bospital medical officer shall forthwith, after the death of a person whom he has attended during his last liness, at the request of an undertaker or other authorized person or of any member of the family of the deceased, furnish for regis- ration 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 hy section one, where same was contracted, the duration of his last illness, 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 hury 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 hody and remove it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomh other than the receiving tomh 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- ory written statement containing the facts required by 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 hy 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 he purpose, or is insufficient, a physician who is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or hy the selectmen for the pur- pose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the at- ending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical exam- ner shall make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of 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 deslring 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 removed within thirty- ix hours after such removal, unless a permit in the usual form for he removal of such body has been sooner obtained hereunder. If the death certificate contains a recital, as required hy 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 calth, or its agent, upon receipt of such statement and certificate, hall forthwith countersign it and transmit it to the clerk of the own 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
ohtained 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 hury 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 ita 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 hurlal 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 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 hedsidc 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 disahled hy recognized disease un- related to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose physician is ahsent 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 hy the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, hut also deaths from disease resulting from 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 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 morhid 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 he known. Make some entry in this section for every person aged 10 years or over. If the occupation had heen 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-301 A
PLACE OF DEATH
Surf lok
(City or Town) gran Community Hospital No. Anna Maline (Ronnevis) nudson
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 106
§ (If death occurred In a hospital or institution, St. {give its NAME instead of street and number)
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
41 Enfield Road
St
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
Length of stay: In hospital or institution hospital
(Specify whether)
years - months
5
days.
In this community 39
yrs.
mos. --
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
5 SINGLE
(write the word)]
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Widow
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
Qle
John Knudson
(Husband's name in full)
.years
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
8
83 Years
2
.Months.
15 Days
If less than I day
Hours
......... .Minutos
Usual
Housewife
II Social Security No .... None
NORWAY
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Torbgoin Ronnevig
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City) ........
(State or country)
Norway
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Unknown
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City) ....
(State or country)
Norway
Informant ....
Thomas Knudson(
Relation, if any
Son
(Address) 41 Entie la Rd . Winthrop
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: Mm. S. Children ,
(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
Health Oficer 6/15/40
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
June
13
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 I HEREBY CERTIFY. May -9
That I attended deceased from
19/2
Dime 13, 1942
I last saw her alive on.
Cance 1942 death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at.
2:30 Am
Immediate cause of death ..
Cerebral Hemontage
Duration IMPORTANT Jame 6/42
Due to.
arteriosclerosis
Due to.
Lenility
Other conditions.
Diabetes Mellitus
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
IMPORTANT
PHYSICIAN Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?.
If so, specify
(Signe
(Address) 562 Hurley ST Date 6/12/19-
M. D.
21.
Inthron bothways
inthron
Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal.
(City or Town)
15
DATE OF BURIAL .......
June
19.412
22 NAME OF
FUNER
ADDRESS
Howard S Finaldo
19
Received and filed. 11: 1 G 1912
(Registrar)
6 hrs
Major findings:
Of operations.
none
Date of
Of autopsy.
none
What test confirmed diagnosis? Clinicalx
lafinalny
3 zeno 3 years
100m-2-'40-D-729-a
(County)
1
Winthrop
2 FULL NAME
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
3 SEX
4 COLOR OR RACE
Thite
Female
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
6 Age of husband or wife if alive
AGE
9 Occupation :
Industry
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
PARENTS
17
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
10 or Business :...
Own Home
(If U. S.
War Veteran.
specify WAR)
1942
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 iliness, 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 dled, 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 herelnafter provided. If there Is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or ls in- sufficient, a physiclan 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 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 certifying the cause of death shall thereafter furnish for reglatration 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).
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