Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1943, Part 55

Author: Winthrop (Mass.)
Publication date: 1943
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 594


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If disease or injury was related to occupation, specify. If investigation shows the death to have heen due to disease, specify: (1) Under cause its known or presumahle nature; and (2) under manner, indicate the cir- cumstances leading to medico-legal inquiry. For example: "Hemorrhage spontaneous, of the hrain (basal ganglia) (found dead in bed)." "Heart disease, presumably coronary sclerosis. (Sudden death.)"


DESCRIPTION (for unknown person)


NOTICE TO UNDERTAKERS: No embalming fluid, or any substitute therefor, shall be injected into the body of any person supposed to have met his death by violence, until a permit, signed by the Medical Examiner, has first been obtained .- General Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 14.


THIS CERTIFICATE CONSTITUTES SUCH PERMIT


-302


Essex


(County) Danvers


(City or Town) Danvers State Hospital No.


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


Danvers


(City or town making return)


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


2 FULL NAME


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


72 Bowdoin


(a) Residence. No.


(Usual place of abode)


St.


Winthrop


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


Length of stay: In hospital or Institution.


(Before death)


(Specify whether)


years


3


months 21 days.


In this community


yrs.


mos.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX


female


4 COLOR OR RACE


white


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED,


or DIVORONa dowed


5a If married, widowed, or divoroed


HUSBAND of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE ofAlonda G Perdue


(Husband's name in full)


6 Age of husband or wife if alive


years


7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


8


AGE


Years


Months.


.. Days


If less than 1 day


.Hours.


Minutes


Usual


9 Occupation :


at- home


Industry


10 or Business :


Il Social Security No.


none


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Georgia


13 NAME OF


John L. Layton


FATHER


PARENTS


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


(State or country)


Georgia


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Cook


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


Georgia


Relation, If any


17


Informar


(Address)


Mary DsuMcPhillips (


A TRUE COPY.


ATTEST :


(Registrar of city or town where death occurred)


DATE FILED


7/27/43


19


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


July8 1943


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


19 | HEREBY CERTIFY,


Mar. 17


19.433


to July


That I attended deoeased from


19.43 ...


I last saw h.


er


alive on


July


8


.19 ..


Hp death Is sald to


have oocurred on the date stated above, at.


6.25p


m.


Duration


Immediate cause of death.


Myocardial failure


3.


mos.


Due to.


Due to.


Other conditions


(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)


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 oooupatlon of deceased ? If so, speolfy


(Signed)


Flora M. ..... Remillard


M. D.


(Address)


DSH


Date


7/23013


21 PLACE OF BURIAL,


CREMATION OR REMOVALIthron


Winthrop


DATE OF BURIAL


49948/43


(City or Town)


19


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECOWard S. Reynolds


ADDRESS


Winthrop


Reoelved and filed.


AUG 9 1613


19


(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


60m (e)-1-41-4667


1


PLACE OF DEATH


Belle Evans Perdue


(If U. S.


war Veteran,


specify WAR)


Registered No.


Physician


70


302


1


PLACE OF DEATH


SUFFOLK BOsty T'ON


(City or Town)


Jewish Memorial Hospital


The Commonfocalth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


HOSTON


(City or town making return)


Registered No.


L 6640


give its NAME instead of street and number)


2 FULL NAME


Morris Gilman


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


36 Cutler St.


St.


Winthrop, Mass.


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


Length of stay: in hospitai or institution


(Before death)


(Specify whether)


years


months


14days.


in this community


yrs.


mos.


14 days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


3 SEX


M


4 COLOR OR RACE


W


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


Married


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


19 | HEREBY CERTIFY,


June .... 28.


19.4.3.


...


That I attended deosased from


July 11


19


43


I iast saw h


im


.. alive on


July 11


143


death is said to


(or) WIFE of


(Husband's name in full)


67


years


7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


8


AGE


67


Years


Months.


Days


-


If less than 1 day


Hours.


.Minutes


Usual


9 Occupation :


Tailor


industry


10 or Business :


For Himself


11 Social Ssourity No.


.none


Other conditions.


(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)


Physician


Underline the cause to


which death


should be


charged sta· tistically.


Of autopsy


clinical


What test confirmed dlagnosis ?.


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


If so, speolfy.


(Signed)


M. Gerstein


Boston


19.43


(Address)


21"PLACE OF BURIAL, Winthrop Cem.


CREMATION OR REMOVAL


(Cemetery)


Everett, Mass.


DATE OF BURIAL


July fgity or Town)


19


43


A TRUE Color francis


ATTEST :


( Registrar of city or fown where death occurred)


DATE FILED


July .... 14 .19


43


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


M. Stanetsky


ADDRESS


Dorchester


Received and filed


AUG .1.61043


19


(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


PARENTS


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


(State or country)


Russia


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Sarah


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


Russia


Relation, if any


... w.i.f.o .........


18 DATE OF


DEATH


July


11


1943


have occurred on the date stated above, at


6.25 p. m.


Duration


Immediate cause of death. Cerebral hemorrhage


(recurrent )


2 wks


Due to.


Generalized arteriosclerosis


many yrs


Due to.


Diabetes mellitus


3 yrs


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Russia


13 NAME OF


FATHER


Abraham E. Gilman


Major findings :


Of operations


Date of


Date


7/IT, M. D.


17


Informant


(Address)


50m (e)-1-41-4667


No.


{if death


(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,


St.


(if U. S.


War Veteran,


specify WAR)


(a) Residence. No.


(Usual place of abode)


5a If married, widowed, or divoroed


Anna Baun


HUSBAND of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


to


6 Age of husband or wife if alive


"pl An


1


1


PLACE OF DEATH


Suffolk (County)


Winthrop


(City or Town)


95 Court Road Winthrop


The Commontoralth of Massacinisetts 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.


S ( If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. [ give ita NAME instead of street aud nuniber)


2 FULL NAME


Matthew J. Barron


(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.) 95 Court Road


(a) Residence. No.


(Usual place of abode)


Length of stay: In hospital or Institution


(Before death)


(Specify whether)


years - months days.


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


in this community 15 yrs.


mos.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX Male


4 COLOR OR RACE|


White


5 SINGLE


( write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


Widowed


5€ If married


HUSBAND of


"Julia dipred Forti ss


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of


( Husband's name in fuli)


6 Age of husband or wife if alive


> IF STILLBORN. enter that fact here.


8 AGE 75 Years - Montha


Days


If less than 1 day Hours Minutes


Usual


9 Occupation :


Chauffeur


Industry


10 or Business :


Chaffeur


11 Social Security No.


'2 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(Siate or country )


Boston, Mass.


13 NAME OF


FATHER


Unknown


PARENTS


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


Unknown


FATHER (City)


(State or country)


Unknown


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Unknown


16 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) Unknown (State or country) Unknown


Reiation, if any


17 Informent ( Address)


Mr.s. Edna Maynes 95ªcourt .Minthaughter)


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standerd certificate of death wea filed with me BEFORE the Cusfal or transit permit was Issued: -Vms. Childress of


(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other) Health officer 8/4/43


( Date of Love of Permit) /


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


aug


/


1943


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


19 | HEREBY CERTIFY,


7 cb


That I attended deosased from


1939, to


aug 1


19 43


i last saw him


.. alive on .......


July 31


, 1943


death Is said to


have occurred on the date stated above, at.


7P


m.


years Immedlate cause of death


Duration IMPORTANT


.......... 2 yrs


Due to


Due to


Other conditions .... Diabetes (right les cumplatid) (Include pregnancy within 3 months of death) 14 mas ago)


2 yrs.


IMPORTANT


Physician


Major findIngs:


Of operations


Date of


Of eutopsy


What test confirmed diegnosis ?.


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


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


if so, specify .....


(Signed).


Loro 7. Salerno


M. D.


(Address) 175 Plasand St


Date Cung 3


194 ...


21


Holy Cross, Malden


Piace of Burial, Creniation or Removai.


(City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL.August


1943


19


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


ADDRESS


......


.Boston


Received and Aled.


AUG 4 1949 19 .....


(Omcial Designation)


( Registrar)


100M-6 - 2-42-8855


1 A


No.


PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT


(Was deocased a


U. S. War Veteran,


if so specify WAR)


No


St.


Chronic Myacendity


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 undertsker or other authorizeil person or of sor meniber of the family of the deceased, furnish for registration a standard certificate of desth, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief the name of the deceased. his supposed age, the disesse of which he died. defined as re- quired by section one, where ssme wss contracted. the duration of his last illness, when Isst seen slive by the physician or officer and the date of hia death . . . Gen. Laws, Chiap. 16, 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 decessed, to the best of his knowledge and belief, served in the army, navy or marine corps of the l'uited States in suy war in which it has been engaged, insert in the certificate s recitsl to that elect, speci- fying the war. sud shsil slso certify in such certificate both the primary and the secondary or iinmediste cause of desth ss nearly as he can state the ssine. 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 aod of sections forty-five, forty-six and forty-seven of said chapter one humired 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 hetwcen February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety.eight sud July fourth, nineteen hundred and two, and the Slexi- can border service of nineteen hundred and sixtcen and nineteen hundred and seventeen. G. L. Chisp. 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, from the clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or other person shall exhume a human body and remove it froin a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomb other thau the receiving tomb to another In the same cemetery, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent sforexaid or from the clerk of the town where the boily is buried. 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 sud 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. 01 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 niske 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 esrly enough for the purpose, the certificate of desth msde ss 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 desth certificate contains a recital, as required


by section ten of chapter forty-six, that the deceased served in the army, navy or marine corpa of the United States lo any war in which It has heen engaged. sucb recital shall appear upon the permit. The board of health, or its agent. upon receipt of such statement and certificste, 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 nece+ sary information which can be obtained as to the deceased, or as to the manter 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 hunisn 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 agem 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. ... Chsp. 114. Sec. 46. G. L., (Tercentenary Editiou).


Medical examiners shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of only such persons as sre supposed to have died hy violence. If a medical examiner hss notice that there is within hils county the hody of such a person, he shall forthwith go to the place where the body lies 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 physicians will certify to such deathe 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 phyalolans will certify to such deaths only as those of persons who, though disshled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury. have died without recent medical attendance or whose phyaf- cian is ahsent from home when the certificate of death is needed.


(3) Medloal Examiners will investigate and certify to all destha sup- posably due to Injury. These include ont ooly desths caused directly or in- directly by traumatism (including resulting septicemla), and by the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, aml deaths following abortion, but also deaths from diseass resulting from injury or Infeotlon related to occupation, the sudden desths 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 ilying, e. g., heart failure, asphyxia, asthenia, etc. Aa principai 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 ou account of the discase causing death. report the ususl occupation prior to illness. If the deceased hsd retired from business, report the usual occupation prior to retirement. Children not gainfully employed may be returned aa at school or at hoine. For a woman whose only occupatiou 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


If deceased was a U. S. War Veteran, G. L. Chap. 46, Section 10, requires physicians to Insert a recital to that effect PARENTS


50m (g)-1-41-4667


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued : William D. Childrens (Signature of Agent of Board of Health or,other) agent Cinq 9/43


( Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)


20 Aocident, suloide, or homicide (specify).


Date of ooourrenoe ..


19


Where did Injury occur ?


(City or town and State)


Did Injury poour In or about home, on farm, in Industrial place, or In publio


piaoe ?


(Specify type of place)


Injury


Collapsed solied quickly


Manner/of


Nature of


Injury


While at work ?.


Was there an autopsy?


200


21 Was disease or Injury in any way related to oooupation of deceased?


If so, specify


Hun Suckley


(Signed)


M. D.


(Address)


Brother


Cool 5-1943


22


Holy Cross


malden


Place of Bumal, Cremation or Removal.


(City or Town)


1943


23 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR ...


Charles It Treanor


ADDRESS


Earl Baston.


19


Reoelved and filed


AUG 1 ~ 1943


(Registrar)


World 2


(a) Residence.


No.


26 Bellevue are Winthrop


(Usual place of abode)


Length of stay : in hospital or Institution.


( Before death)


(Specify whether)


years


months days.


In this community


yrs.


mos.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


3 SEX


male


4 COLOR OR RACEJ


White


5 SINGLE


MARRIED


WIDOWED


Married


18 DATE OF


DEATH


Current -5-1943


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


5a If married, wideo


HUSBAND of


Marie-


martel


(or) WIFE of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(Husband's name in full)


6 Age of husband or wife if alive


years


7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


8 43 Years Months Days


If less than 1 day Hours .Minutes


Usual


9 Occupation :


Truck Driver


Industry


10 or Business :


11 Social Security


024-06-7483


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Boston Masi


13 NAME OF


FATHER


James Deheskey


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


New Brunswick


(State or country)


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


annie Sheehan


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


Boston


mass


17 informant.


Marie 1. De fishey wife Relation if any DATE OF BURIAL


The Commonforalth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH Registered No. wat Is (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, LESKEN ( give its NAME instead of street and number) De Lasken


To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.


suite To Withich Comment Hospital


2 FULL NAME


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


PHYSICIAN-IMPORTANT (Was deceased a U. S. War Veteran, If so specify WAR)


St.


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


19 | HEREBY CERTIFY that I have Investigated the death of the person above-named and that the CAUSE AND MANNER thereof are as follows: (If an injury was involved, state fully.) acute cardiac Facture 1


Private Corman Scleroses


03-A Jul/kk (County) Winthrop (City or Town)


1 1 1 PLACE OF DEATH No . Stanley


(write the word)


AGE


EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH


A physician or registered hospital medical officer shall fortliwith, 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 deatlı, 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, See 9.


A physician or officer furmisning a certineate of death as required by the preceding section or by seetion forty-five of chapter one hundred and four- tcen, 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 iminediate 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, be 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 ninctcen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen. G. L. Chap. 46, See. 10.


No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a human body in a town, or remove thercfrom a human body which has not been buried, until he has received a permit from the board of health, or its sgent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the person dicd; and no undertaker or other person shall exhume a human body and remove it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomb other than the receiving tomb to another in the same cemetery, until he has received a permit from the hoard 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 medical examiner shall make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of a human body, not previously interred, from one town to an- other within the commonwealth cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, the certificate of death made as above provided and in the pos- session 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 re- moval, unless a permit in the usual forni for the removal of such body hss been sooner obtained hereunder. If the death certificate contains a recital, ss required by section ten of chapter forty-six, that the deccased served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which


it ha. 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 regis- tration. The person to whom the perinit is so given and the physician cer- tifying 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 re- quire .- Chap. 114, Sec. 45, G. L., (Tercentenary Edition).


No undertaker or other person shall bury a human body or the ashes Whereof which have been brought into the commonwealth until he bas re- coved a permit so to do from the board of health or its agent appointed to




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