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(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 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
R-302
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk
(County)
Boston
(City or Town)
No Mass Gen Hos
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City or town making return)O
Registered No.
10605
5 (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. { give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
AgnesElizabeth Atcherly
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
164 Woodside Av
St.
Winthrop Mass
(a) Residence. No ...
(Usual place of abode)
Length of stay : In hospital or institution.
(Specify whether)
...
years
months
days.
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
In this community yrs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 SEX
F
4 COLOR OR RACE 5 SINGLE
W
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
(write the word)
W
18 DATE OF
DEATH.
Dec 9 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
6 Age of husband or wife if alive. .years
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
ÅGE
73 Years
1
Months.
13 Days
If less than 1 day
Hours
Minutes
Usual
9 Occupation:
At Home
Industry
10 or Business:
II Social Security No.
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
E.Boston.
13 NAME OF
FATHER
George Phillips
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
...
(State or country)
Wilmington Del
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Esther Daley
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
New York City
17
Robert V Atcherley(.
Belayon, if any
Informant.
(Address)
A TRUE COPY
ATTEST:
Ryan
(Registrar of city or town where death occured)
DATE FILED
19
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 la any way related to occopation ol deccased ?
If so, specify ..
(Signed)
Wm J Brickley *
M. D.
(Address)
Date 19
21 PLACE OF BURIAL,
CREMATION OR REMOVAL.
(Cemetery
(City or Town)
19
DATE OF BURIAL
Dèc
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Charles R Bennison
ADDRESS
Received and filed
Dec 11-1942
4 .... 19
(Registrar of City or Town where deccased resided)
une we - Move to the chief of the city of town in which the deceased resided as soon as possible
8 50m-10-'39. No. 8427-f after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (Sce Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.) PARENTS
Sa If married, widowed u divorcent Atcherly HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(cr) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
to have occurred on the date stated above, at ..
m.
Duration
Immediate cause of death Collapsed If lung Senility
Fractured femur acc Oct 6 or
Due to
Nov 6 Winthrop Mass
Fell accidentally at her home
Due to
on Oct and Nov 6 1942
PHYSICIAN
Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.
win Thefrog
emMass
1
(If U. S.
War Veteran,
specify WAR)
R-301 S
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk
(County)
CH
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, 241
Registered No
§ (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, { give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
Cora Belle ( Gardiner) Pero
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
19 Williams St.
St
Winthrop
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
Length of stay: In hospital or institution ..
HOTe
years
months
days.
In this community
yr8.
mos.
days.
(Specify whether)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
-COLOR OR RACE
W
5 SINGLE
(write the word)
Widowed
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Sa If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of.
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
Edward P. Pero
(or) WIFE of.
(Husband's name in full)
Deceased
6 Age of husband or wife if alive ..
years
7 IF STILLBORN. enter that fact here.
8
71
2
If less than 1 day
Hours
.Minutes
Usual
At Home
9 Occupation:
Industry
10 or Business:
11 Social Security No ....... None
12 BIRTHPLACE (City).
(State or country)
Providence
Rhode Island
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Nicholas B. Gardiner
PARENTS
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City) ...
(State or country)
Rhode Island
...
Date of.
Of autopsy
What test confirmed diagnosis ?..
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?. .......
If so, specify.
Louis
(Signed) ......
7 Palermo
M. D.
(Address).
175 Pleasant St
Date Au10
1942
Winthrop Cemetery, Winthrop
"Piace of Buriai, Cremation or Removal.
(City or Town)
December
42
19 ..
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
ADDRESS
Bennington st. , E. B.
Received and filed.
.19
1
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH.
(Month)
(Day)
9
1942
(Year)
19
I HEREBY CERTIRX
meus 16
1947
Dic 9
19 4 2
I last saw Her alive on
Dec
have occurred on the date stated above, at
m. Immediate cause of death ..
Duration
IMPORTANT
. ......
Due to.
Chronic Myocarditis
2 yrs
Due to
Other conditions
(Inciude pregnancy within 3 months of death)
IMPORTANT PHYSICIAN
Major findings:
Of operations ..
Underiine the cause to which death should be charged sta- tisticaliy.
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Frances Ray
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
Cork
MOTHER (City) ..
(State or country)
Ireland
17
Relation, if any
Informant ....
Mrs. Earl M. Petersen, Daugh
(Address)
19 Williams St.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory .tandard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued :
(Signature of Agent of Board of Health lor other)
Health Office 12/11/42
1QM - A- 1-4 2 - 8 511
CAUSE OF DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important. See instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate.
1
Winthrop
(City or Town)
No. 19 Williams St.
Winthrop
St.
(If U. S.
War Veteran,
specify WAR)
NO ...
(a) Residence. No ....
(Usuai place of abode)
....
59
1230
P
1942 death is said to
(Registrar)
X
DATE OF BURIAL.
That I attended deceased from
AGE
Years
Months.
17
Days!
R-301 A
Suffolk
(County)
(City or Town) TO4 Hi ~17:00
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. 242
Registered No.
§ ( If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. [ give Ita 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.
5IT S'inlay
St.
( If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In hospital or Institution
( Refnre death)
Resislors
(Specify whether)
years
6
months
days.
In this community
25
yrs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 SEX
4 COLOR OR RACE|
Thite
5 SINGLE
( write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
Of DIVORCEDSingle
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
IF STILLBORN. enter that fact here.
8
AGE
80
Years
Months
Days
If less than 1 day
Hours
Minutes
Usual
9 Occuoation :
Loundress
Industry
10 or Business :
I: undry
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
St. Johnobun
(Siate or conutry)
ermont
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Robert Francis Harrington
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Imland
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Bridget O Connor
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Tralina
(Signed)
5748WEB87
Date 12-12
1942
21
Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal 4
Dec
(City or Town)
19
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was Issued : William D. Childress
........
(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
agent 12/13/42
..... (Official Designation) ( Date of issue of Permit)
18 DATE OF
DEATH
Due
( Month)
(Day)
(Year)
I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deceased from
1942, to
Der 12
1942
last saw h ........... alive on.
Dar 12
19.42, death Is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at 1,456
.m.
Immedlate cause of death
mumia
Duration 3 ago IMPORTANT
... ....... ...
Due to ..
Chronic Pmyo carditis
Due to ...
Othe
Hemiplegia
( Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
Major findIngs :
Of operations
Date of ...
Of autopsy
What test confirmed diagnosis?
Chucul
1 wohl 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 ...
M. D.
17 Delie Carmichael
Informant. ( Address ) ro
Relation, If any DATE OF BURIAL ..
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR.
ADDRESS
inter.
assachusetts
Received and Aled
19
(Registrar)
100M-€ · 2-42-8855
extracts from the laws on back of certificate. 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 reoltal to that effect. PARENTS
PLACE OF DEATH
.....
( Inc. Fichero Rest &
No.
Julio
Harrington
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so speolfy WAR)
(Usual place of abode)
12
1942
11 Social Security No.
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician or registered hospital medioel offioer 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, furnisb 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 re- quired by section one. where ssme was contracted. the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive by the physician or officer and the date of hia death ... Cen. Laws, Chap. 46, Sec. 9.
A' physician or officer furnishing a certificate of death as required by the preceding section or by section forty-five of chapter one hundred and four- teen, shall, if the deceased, to the best of his knowledge and belief, aervcd 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, and shall also certify in such certificate both the primary and the secondary or immediate csuse 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 hundred and fourteen, the word "war" shall include 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 Jiexi- can border service of nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen. G. L. Chap. 46, Sec. 10.
No underteker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a buman body in a town, or remove tlierefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he haa received a permit from the board of health, or ita agent appointed to lesue such permits, or if there is no such board, from tbe clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or otber person shall exhume a buman body and remove it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one grsve or tomb other than the receiving tonib to another In the same cemetery, until he has received a permit from the board of health or ita agent aforexaid or from the clerk of the town where the body is buried. No such permit shall be issued until there aball have been delivered to sucb 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 interment, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law. o1 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 physi- cian who is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or by the welectmen for the purpose, shall upon application niske the certificate re- quired of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medl- cal 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 cennot be obtained early enough for the purpose, the certificate of desth made es above provided and in the possession of the undertaker desiring to make such renroval sliall 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 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 transniit 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 nece+ sary information which can be obtained as to the deceased. or us to the manter of canse 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 ashea 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 sgent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such hoard, from the clerk of the town where the body is to be buried or the funeral is to he held, or from a person appointed to have the care of the cemetery or burial ground in which the interment is made .... Cbap. 114. Sec. 46. G. L., (Tercentenary Edition).
Medical examinera shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of only such persons ss 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 lles aud take charge of the same; ... - General Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 6.
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observance of the following rules of practice :
(1) Attending physiciens 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 physiolens will certify to such deaths 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 pbyaf- cian is ahsent from home when the certificate of death is needed.
(8) Medloai Exeminers will Investigate end certify to all deaths sup- posebly due to Injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or In- directly by traumatism (Including resulting septicemia), and by the actlon of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, but also deaths from diseasa resulting from Injury or Infeotlon related to oooupetion, the sudden deatha of persons not disablad by recognized dlacese, and those of persons found deed.
Statement of Ceuse of Death. Cause of death means the disease. or complication which causea death. not the mode of dying, e. g., heart failure, asphyxia, asthenia, etc. Aa principal cause name tbe disease caualng death. As related causes, name earlier morbid conditions, if any, related to the principal cause and any important compliestion of the principal cause.
Statement of Oocupetion .- Precise statement of occupation la very Im- portant, so that the relstive bealthfulness 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 ou account of the discase causing desth, report the usual occupation prior to Illness. If the deceased had retired from business. report the usual occupation prior to retireinent. Children not gainfully employed may be returned as at school or at hoine. For a woman whose only occupatiou waa that of home bousework, write bousework. For a person engaged in domestic service for wages, however, designste the occupation by the appropriate terms, aa housekeeper-private family, cook-hotel, etc. For a person who had no occupation whatever write none.
SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
R-301 A
Suffcly
(County)
'inthron
(City or Town)
The Commonturalth 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. 243
( ( If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
¿ give ita NAME instead of street and number)
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteren,
If so speolfy WAR)
(a) Residence. No.
(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|
mite
5 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
5a If married, widowed, or divorced fo Mullow
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 57
Years
........ Months
Days
If less than 1 day Hours. Minutes
Usual
9 Occupation :
Dentist
Industry
10 or Business :
11 Social Security No.
at Boston
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country )
coachmatts
13 NAME OF
FATHER
J. mas J.
Major findings :
Of operations.
Date of
Of autopsy.
What test confirmed dlagnosis?
Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to oogupation of deceased ?.
If so, specify.
Jam & hauen
(Signed).
M. D.
(Address) 874 Call St
endre
Date 12-19
.19 .. ¥.2
21
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR.
Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal.
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
na Polis TOmales
19
ADDRESS
Received and filed
.19
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Dermity
18 DATE OF
DEATH
(Month)
(Day)
19,
1942
(Year)
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY, That 1 attended deceased from
nr. 20
1942.
to.
TEC 19,
1942
i last saw h ... han allve on
18
....... 19.9.2, death is sald to
have occurred on the date stated above, at.
m.
Immedlate cause of death.
Pulmonary Emboliain
IMPORTANT endda
Due to.
Due to ..
Other conditions.
Sciatica
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
IMPORTANT Physician
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Newfoundland
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
N: ry E, licLeod
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
17 Esta Keofe Mulloy
Informant ....
Relation, if any (Address) 200 219 Sant UT họ
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was Issued: Www. Children (Signature of Agent of Board of/ffearth or other) He atthe Officer 12/2//42
100m (d)-1-41-4667
extracts from the laws on back of certificate. If deceased was a U. S. War Veteran, G. L. Chap. 46, Section 10, requires physicians to insert a recital to that effeot.
PLACE OF DEATH
2 FULL NAME.
No. Joseph J. Mulloy
married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
O PIOnt
St.
yeara
months
days.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
In this community 2 j yrs.
mos.
days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Duration
PARENTS
1
St.
Registered No.
( Registrar)
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physlolan or registered hospital medloal 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 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, Scc. 9.
A physician or officer furnishing a certificate of death as required by the preceding section or by section 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 United 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 both the primary and the secondary or immediate cause of death as nearly as he can state the same. 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 hundred and fourteen, the word "war" shall include the China relief ex- pedition and the Philippine insurrection, which shall, for said purposes, he deemed to have taken place between February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and July fourth, nineteen hundred and two, and the Mexi- can border service of nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred 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 hody 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 Gr 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 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 insufficient, a physi- cian who is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate re- quired of the attending physician. If death is caused by 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 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 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
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