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No.
The Commontoralth 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. 219
Registered No. § ( If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. [ give its NAME instead of street aud nuniber)
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
2 FULL NAME
( If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No.
47
Bartlott Pourway
St.
(Usual place of abode)
Length of stay: In hospital or Institution
( Before death )
(Specify whether)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
4 COLOR OR RACE
5 SINGLE
( write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
annica
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
Barrett
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
> IF STILLBORN. enter that fact here.
87T AGE Years - Months Days
If less than 1 day
Hours
Minutes
Usual
9 Occupation :
Merchant
Industry
10 or Business :
Wholesale Fish
11 Social Security No.
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
JUSTO !!
(State or country)
13 NAME OF
FATHER
John N. Fulham
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Ireland
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Ellen Leonard
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Irelona
17 claire
Fulham
Relation, if any.
informant
( Address)
Farciett
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 Arest of Board of Health or other) Health Officer 11/2//42
(Official Designation) ( Date of Issue of Perilty
18 DATE OF
DEATH
hor.
26
1442
( Month)
(Year)
19 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
1
19 ...
19
5
www.26
42
i last saw h ............. alive on.
hav 20, 1941, death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at.
1 A
m.
Immediate cause of death.
Corman Emploin
Due to
atão Menos
Due to.
Other conditions
( Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
Major findings :
Of operations
Date of.
Of autopsy
What test confirmed diagnosis?
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, speoify
M. D.
(Signed).
(Address) + W02
schon Date
2/11-26 291/2
21
Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal.
DATE OF BURIAL .....
NOV 28 1940
0)
(City or Town)
19.
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR ..
ADDRESS
Lolmy maley
Received and Aled 19
( Registrar)
100M-6 - 2-42-8855
terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. See instructions and If deceased was a U. S. War Veteran, G. L. Chap. 46, Section 10, requires physicians to insert a reoital to that effeot. PARENTS extracts from the laws on back of certificate.
1
PLACE OF DEATH
H Nicolas Leonard Fulham
-
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so speolfy WAR)
(It nonresident, give city or town and State)
40
years
months
days.
in this oommunity
yrs.
mos.
dayı.
1970 7hits
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(Day)
That I attended deosased from
....
Duration
IMPORTANT
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 atteinled during his last illuess, at the request of an undertaker or other authorized person or of any meniber of tbe family of the deceased, furnisb for registration a atandard certifcate 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 re- quired 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.
A' physician or officer furnishing a certificate of death as required hy the preceding section or by section forty-five of chapter one bundred and four- teen, shall, if the deceased, to the best of his knowledge and helief, aervcd in the army. navy or marine corps of the l'oited States in any war in which it has been engaged. insert in the certificate a recital to that effect, speci- fying the war, and shall also certify in such certificate hoth the primary and the secondary or iinmediate cause of death as nearly as he can state the seine. For neglect to comply with any provision of this section, sucb physician or officer shall forfeit ten dollars. For the purposes of thie aec- tion and of sections forty-five, forty-six and forty-seven of said chapter one hundred and fourteen, the word "war" shall include the China relief ex- pedition and the Philippine insurrection, which shall, for said purposea, 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. Clisp. 46, Sec. 10.
No undertaker or other person shall hury or otherwise dispose of a buman body in a town, or remove tlierefrom a human body which has not been huried, 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, from the clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or otber 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 be 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 sucb board, egent 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 internient, 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 pbysi- cian who is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or by tbe aelectinen for the purpose, shall upon application niake the certificate re- quired of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence. the medi- cal examiner ehall make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of a human body, not previously interred, froin one town to another within the commonwealth cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose. the certificate of desth made as ahove provided and in the possession ot 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 hody hae heen sooner obtained hereunder. If the desth 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. sucb recitai shall appear upon the permit. The board of health, or ils 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 urce+ eary information which can be obtained as to the deceased. or as to the manner of 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 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 hoard, from the clerk of the town where the boily is to be buried or the funeral is to he held, or from a person appointed to have tbe care of the cemetery or burial ground in which the interment is made. ... Cbap. 114. Sec. 46. C. L., (Tercentenary Edition).
Medical examiners shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of only such persons as are supposed to have died hy violence. If a medical examiner has notice that there is within his county the hody of such a person, he shall forthwith go to the place where the body liea aud take charge of the same; ... - General Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 6.
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these lawe calle for the observance of the following rules of practice :
(1) Attending phyalciana will certify to such deatha only aa 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 phyalolana will certify to such deathe only as those of persons who, though disahled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose pbyal- cian is ahsent from home when the certificate of death ie needed.
(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all (catha sup- posably due to Injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or in- directly by traumatism (including resuiting septicemia), and hy the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), therinal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, but also deaths from dlaeasa resulting from injury or Infeotion related to cooupatlon, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized dlaease, and those of persons found dead.
Statement of Cause of Death .- Cause of death means the dleease, or complication which causes death, not the moile of dying, e. g., heart failure, asphyxia, asthenia, etc. Aa principal cause name tbe 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 healthfulneas of various pursuits cau 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 husinesa, report the usual occupation prior to retirement. Children not gainfully employed may he returned as at school or at boine. For a woman wbose only occupatiou waa that of home housework, write bousework. For a person engaged in domestic service for wages, however, designste the occupation hy the appropriate terma, aa housekeeper-private family. cook-hotel, etc. For a person who had no occupation whatever write none.
SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
RM R-301 ||
Suffolk
(County)
Winthrop
(City or Town)
4 COLOR OR RACE
"White
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12 BIRTHPLACE (City) .... weder
(State or country)
-
(State or country)
Sweden
information should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state
10 or Business:
Restaurant
(write the word)
DEATH
5 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Widowed
Sa If married, widowed, or divorreduise Pike HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(Husband's name in full)
6 Age of husband or wife if alive. yours
AGE 87 Years 1 Months 19 Days
If less than I day
Hours.
Minutes
Usual
Restaurant proprietor
retired )
FATHER
Charles Robert Munch
(State or country)
Germany
15 MAIDEN NAME
Treasure Nordstrom
17 Informant!TS. Kate M. Villis
(Address) 171 Woodside Live Winthrop Has
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit pormit was issued:
Ww. D. Childress
(Signature, of Agent of Board of Health or other)
1 Heatthe Officer 11/27/42 (Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit) /
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
her
26
1942
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY . That I attended deceased from
2017
19 42 to
to her26
1943
I last saw h.Awww .... alive on.
2×26
19.5.2., death is said
to have occurred on the date stated above, at. 8.135 A.m.
Duration
Immediate cause of death Palomman Embol
.....
2
Due to
Chinyrendition
Due to
Cuteño alunos - semblez
.6. . .
Other conditions
.......
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
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 lojory In any way related to occupation of deceased ? 20
If so, specify,
M. D.
(Signed)
(Address) 148 With St Ma Date 11/26
19 42
21 Foodlawn Cemetery Everett Mes
Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal. 2 City of gora
DATE OF BURIAL
19
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Charles R. .. Bennison
ADDRESS
jinthrop Fase
Received and fled.
19
A TRUE COPY ATTEST:
(Registrar)
1
PLACE OF DEATH
3 SEX
Male
(or) WIFE of
8
9 Occupation:
II Social Security No.
13 NAME OF
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
OF MOTHER
PARENTS
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
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
N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of
....
200m-10-'39. No. 8427-d
No. Winthrop Community Hospital
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City or town making return)
Registered No. 220
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
St. { give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
Charles Reinhold Munch
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
1.77 Woodside Avenue
St.
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
hospital
ength of stay : In hospital or institution
(Specify whether)
years
months
10
days.
In this community
yrs.
mos.
days.
(I U. S.
War Veteran.
specify WAR)
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
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 deccased, 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 samc 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 cxhume 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 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- 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 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 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 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 funcral 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 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 septicc- 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 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 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
RM R-301
1
Winthrop
(City or Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City or town making return) 221
Registered No.
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. { give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
3tilborn Female
May Lead
(If deceased is a married, widowed of divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence.
No.
191 Orient ave
St.
Each Boston
(Usual place of abode)
ength of stay: In hospital or institution
(Specify whether)
years
months
days.
In this community
yrs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX Female
4 COLOR OR RACE|
White
5 SINGI.E
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
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. Stillborn
8 ÄGE Years Months.
Days
If less than 1 day
Hours.
Minutos
Usual
9 Occupation :.
Industry
10 or Business:
11 Social Security No.
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
winthrop
(State or country)
Massachusetts
PARENTS
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
Boston, Massachusetts.
(State or country)
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Rosalie C. Walsh
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
East Boston
(State or country)
Massachusetts.
17 Alexander IT. Macleod
Relation, if any
Informant.
father (Address) 191 Orient Ave. East Boston
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was Hled with mo BEFORE the burial or transft permit was issued:
1800
(Signature Aunt of Board of Health, or other) 102.28/42
(Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
(Month)
(Day)
1982 (Ycar)
19 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from 19 .. .... , to ... ... 19
I last saw h ....
... alive
19.
...... , death is said
to have occurred on the date stated above, at ...
930
.m.
Immediate cause of death. Stellbar Fernde.
Due to
Due to
..
Other conditions
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
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 nccnpatlon nf deceased ?
If so, specify.
(Signed)
M. D.
(Address) 6 0 newsle Lls Date1/22
198 2
21 Holy Cross malden
Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal. (City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
4 - 29
19 42
22 NAME OF
Charles f. Trequar
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
ADDRESS
East Boston
Received and filed ..
19
À TRUE COPY ATTEST:
(Registrar)
200m-10-'39. No. 8427-d
N. B .- WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK-THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD. Every item of 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
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk
(County)
No. Minthron Community osnital
(If U. S. Wor Veteran. spocity WAR)
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
(write the word)
22
Duration
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Alexander N. Lac Leod
& Thema Stacker
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 bis 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, Scc. 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 exhumc 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 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- 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-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 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- nisb for registration any other necessary information which can be
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