Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1943, Part 65

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


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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 I'nited States in any war in which it has been engaged, insert in the certificate a recital to that effect, stu.ci- fying the war, and shall also certify in such certificate both the primary aml 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 inelinde 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 futly fourth, nineteen hundred and two, and the Mexi- can horder 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 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 exhime a human hody 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 haried. 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 he 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. of 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 apidication 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 early enough for the purpose, the certificate of death made as above provided and in the possession of the undertaker desiring to make such removal shall constitute a permit for such removal; provided, that such body shall be returned to the town from which it was removed within thirty-six hours after such removal, unless a permit in the usual form for the removal of such body has been sooner obtained 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 I'nited States in any war in which it has hren engaged. such recital shall appear upon the permit. The board of health, or its agent. upon receipt of such statement and certificate, shall forthwitb counter-ign it and transmit it to the clerk of the town for registration. The person to whom the prrunt is so given and the physician certifying the cause of death shall thereafter furnish for registration any offor neces sary information which can be obtained as to the deceased. or as to the mater 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 houry a Imman body or the ashes thereof which have been brought into the commonwealth until he has re- ceived a perrinit so to do from the board of health or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the body is to be buried or the funeral is to be hell, or from a persou appointed to have the care of the cemetery or burial grouml in which the interment is made. ... Chap. 114. Sec. 46. G. L., (Tercentenary Edition).


Medical examiners shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of only such persons as are supposed to have died by violence. If a medical examiner has notice that there is within his county the body of such a person, he shall forthwith go to the place where the body liea and 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 deaths only as those of persons to whom they have given bedside care during a last illness from disease unrelated to any form of injury.


(2) Board of Health physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons who, though disabled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury. have died without recent medical attendance or whose physi- cian is ahsent from home when the certificate of death is needed.


(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths sup- posably due to injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or in- directly by traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and by the action of chemical ( drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, but also deaths from disease resulting from injury or Infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, and those of persons found dead.


Statement of Cause of Death .- Cause of death means the disease, or complication which causes death, not the mode of dying, e. g., heart failure, asphyxia, asthenia, etc. As principal cause name the discase causing death. As related causes, name earlier morbil conditions, if any, related to the principal cause and any important complication of the principal cause.


Statement of Occupation .- Precise statement of occupation is very im- portant, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known. Make some entry in this section for every person aged 10 years or over. If the occupation had been given up or changed on account of the disease causing death, report the usual occupation prior to illness. If the deceased had retired from business, report the usual occupation prior to retirement. Children not gainfully employed may be returned as at school or at home. For a woman whose only occupation was that of home housework, write housework. For a person engaged in domestic service for wages, however, designate the occupation by the appropriate terms, as housekeeper-private family, cook-hotel, etc. For a person who had no occupatiou whatever write none.


SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION


-302


Essex


(County) Danvers


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


Danver


(City or town making return)


Registered No.


188


-


No. Danvers Stato Hospital


.


St. { give its NAME instead of street and number)


Johanna C. S. Mackie


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


32 Billows


(a) Residenoe. No.


(Usual place of abode)


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


Length of stay : In hospital or Institution


(Before death)


(Specify whether)


5 years


3


months 6


days.


In this community


yrs.


mos.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX


female


4 COLOR OR RACE|


white


MARRIED


WIDOWED


Or DIVORCEWidowed


5a if married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of James .... Machis


(Husband's name in full)


6 Age of husband or wife if alive years


7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


8


82


AGE


Years


Months.


.Days


If less than 1 day


Hours


Minutes


Due to


Usual


9 Occupation :


At home


Industry


10 or Business :


11 Social Security No ...


Hone


12 BIRTHPLACE (City) Dundee,


(State or country)


Scotland


13 NAME OF


FATHER


Robert Stevens


PARENTS


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


England


(State or country)


15 MAIDEN NAME


Mary Walker


OF MOTHER


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


Scotland


17


Informant


M.K.McPhillips


(


Relation, if any


(Address)


A TRUE COPY.


ATTEST :


(Registrar of city or town where death occurred)


DATE FILED


8/11/43


19


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


July 31, 1943


(Day)


(Year)


19 | HEREBY CERTIFY,


That I attended deceased from


Apr.


.25 19 .... 3.8,


to .....


July 31


19433


I last saw h ..


er alive on.


July 31 19 4 death Is said to


have occurred on the date stated above, at.


8.45₽


m.


Immediate oause of death.


Myocardial failure


3 days


Generalized arteriosclerosis


-0


yrs


Other conditions.


(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)


Physician


Major findings :


Of operations


Underline the cause to


which death


Date of


should be charged sta-


What test confirmed diagnosis?


clinical


tistically.


20 Was discase or Injury in any way related to oooupation of deceased ?


If so, speolfy.


(Signed)


Leo Maletz


M. D.


(Address)


DSH


Date 6, 1319


21 PLACE OF BURIAL,


CREMATION OR REMOVAL


Danville Danville,


DATE OF BURIAL


(Cemetery)


13/3/13


19


(City of Town)


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


Richard Piper


ADDRESS


Danville, N.H.


19


Received and filed


SEP 11 1943


(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


QUID (e)-1-41-4667


PLACE OF DEATH


1


(City or Town)


S


(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,


2 FULL NAME


(If U. S.


War Veteran,


specify WAR)


St.


Winthrop


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


DEATH


(Month)


Duration


Due to


Of autopsy


R-302


Essex


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


Danvers


(City or town making return)


189


Registered No.


(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,


St.


give its NAME instead of street and number)


-


(If U. S.


War Veteran,


specify WAR)


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


(a) Residenoe. No.


132 Winthrop Shore Drive


st. Winthrop


(Usual place of abode)


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


Length of stay: In hospital or Institution


(Before death)


(Specify whether)


years


1 0months


2


days.


In this community


yrs.


mos.


dayı.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


3 SEX


male


4 COLOR OR RACE|


white


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWEDSingle


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


Years.


Months.


Days


If less than 1 day Hours .. ........ .Minutes


Usual


9 Dccupatlon :


janitor


Industry 10 or Business :


11 Social Security No. Cannot be learned


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Vatertown


13 NAME OF


FATHER


James Fagan


PARENTS


14 BIRTHPLACE DF


FATHER (City)


(State or country)


Ireland


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Mary


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


Ireland


Relation, if any


17


M. K. McPhillips


Informant


(Address)


SSH


A TRUE COPY.


ATTEST:


(Registrar of clty, or town where death occurred)


8/16/43


19


18 DATE DF


August 8, 1943


DEATH


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


19 | HEREBY CERTIFY,


Oct


6


19


42


That I attended deceased from


Aus.


8


1943


I last saw h


im


alive on


8


19 ...


death Is sald to


have occurred on the date stated above, at


7.05A.


m.


Duration


Immediate cause of death.


Arteriosclerotic heart disease


1 Vr.


Due to.


Due to


Other conditions.


(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)


Physician


Major findings :


Df operations.


Date of.


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


What test confirmed diagnosis?


clinical


20 Was disease or injury In any way related to ocoupallon of daceased ?.


If so, specify


Abrahan Gardner


(Address)


DSH


Date


8/23/ 20


D.


21 PLACE OF BURIAL, St . Paul


CREMATION OR REMOVAL


(Cemet@}) 10/43 (City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL


19


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


Daniel F. O'Brien


ADDRESS


Cambridge


Reoelved and filed SEP 11 1943


19


DATE FILED


PLACE OF DEATH


(County ) Danvers


1


(City or Town) Danvers State Hospital No.


2 FULL NAME


Peter Fagan


50m (e).1-41-4667


Arlington


Of autopsy


(Signed)


to


(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


63


R-302


blueu. (See Chap. 46, S. 12, . L.)


reside in another city ur town.sz the ofenad ante


60m (e)-1-41-4667


Butfolk


PLACE OF DEATH


(County)


Hoxton


(City or Town)


No.


P. B. Brigham Hospital


(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,


St.


¿ give its NAME instead of street and number)


2 FULL NAME


Harold Wilbur Rand


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


(a) Residence. No.


(Usual place of abode)


33 Chester Avenue


St.


Winthrop,


Mass.


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


Length of stay: In hospital or Institution


(Before death)


(Specify whether)


years


months


13 days.


In this community


yrs.


mos.


13


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX


M


4 COLOR OR RACE|


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED Married


5a If married, widowed, or divorced


Marion Evans


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 48 years


7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


8


49


2


AGE


Years


Months


24


Days


If less than 1 day .Hours. Minutes


Usual


9 Oocupation :


Postal Clerk


Industry


10 or Business :


U. S. Post Office


11 Social Security No. ..


014-12-7634


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Standish, Maine


13 NAME OF


FATHER


Wilbur Rand


PARENTS


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


(State or country)


Haine


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Mary Cressey


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


Maine


17


Informant


(Address)


Relation, if any


(wife


A TRUE COPY.


Ryan


ATTEST :


(Registrar of city of town where death occurred)


DATE FILED August 27 19 43


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


August


23


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


19 | HEREBY CERTIFY,


That I attended deceased from


August 11 1943


to


August 23, 1943


I last saw h


im


..... alive on


August 23


19.4.3, death Is sald to


have occurred on the date stated above, at


4.20


P.m


Immediate cause of death Carcinoma of tail of pancreas metastasis to portal lymphnodes &


mos .


Due to.


liver - jaundice - thrombic


in ... branch .... of .... portal .... ve.in


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.


What test confirmed diagnosis ?.


autopsy


no


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


If so, speolfy


(Signed)


H. W. Benjamin


M. D.


(Address)


P.R.B. Hosp.


Date ... 8-24


... 19 43


21 PLACE OF BURIAL, Woodlawn Crem.


Everett .Mass.


CREMATION OR REMOVAL


(Cemetery)


(City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL


August 26


19


43


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


H. S. Reynolds


ADDRESS


Winthrop Lass.


Received and filed SEF 12 1943


(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


19


1


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


(City or town making return)


Registered No.


7899


(If U. S.


War Veteran,


specify WAR)


1943


W


Duration


Of autopsy


02


Hampden


(County)


Monson


(City or Town) Monson State Hospital No.


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


Monson


(City or town making return)


101


Registered No. (If death occurred in a hospital or institution,


St.


3 give its NAME instead of street and number)


2 FULL NAME


Martha Staples


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


23 Taft Ave.


St.


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


Length of stay : In hospital or Institution.


(Before death)


(Specify whether)


years


6 months 19 days.


In this community


yrs.


6 mos.


19days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


3 SEX


female


4 COLOR OR RACE


white


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


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.


8


1


AGE


Years


11


Months


15


Days


If less than 1 day


Hours ..


Minutes


Usual


none


9 Occupation :


Industry


10 or Business :


none


11 Social Security No ..


none


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Laine


13 NAME OF


FATHER


Grant Staples


PARENTS


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


Blue Hill


(State or country)


Maine


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


June E. Smith


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


IT.Y.


Watertown


17


Grant Staples


Relatio


father


Informant.


( Address)


A TRUE COPY.


ATTEST :


Carlos y Ballo


(Registrar of city or town where death occurred)


DATE FILED


September


2. 19


43


18 DATE OF Sept.


DEATH


1,


1943


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


19 Pe'b: 15BY


CERTIFY,


43


Sept. I.


19


19


to


[ last saw her


alive on


Sept.


7


....... , 19.43 death is said to


have occurred on the date stated above, at


12:25 pm.


Duration


Immediate cause of death. Epilepsy


Hydro Cephalus


Due to.


Due to.


Other conditions.


(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)


Physician


Major findings :


Of operations


Underline the cause to which death


Date of


should be charged sta-


tistically.


What test confirmed diagnosis?


Clinical


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


If so, specify


Florence G. Beaulieu


M. D.


(Address)


21 PLACE OF BURIAL,


Whitefield Cem.


CREMATION OR REMOVAL


(Cemetery)


"Whitefield , Mass.


DATE OF BURIAL


Sept. .... 3,


19 .43


22 NAME OF


J. F. Loftus


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


ADDRESS


Palmer Mass.


Received and filed.


September 2.


arlos A.


Ball


(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


.1943 ... 19


1


PLACE OF DEATH


(If U. S.


War Veteran,


specify WAR)


(a) Residenoe. No.


(Usual place of abode)


Winthrop,


Mass.


That [ attended deceased from


43


.,


Of autopsy


none


(Signed)


Monson State Hosp . 9/1


143


Gardener


1


301 A


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


100m ( 3 . 1.41 1667


PLACE OF DEATH


Suffolk


(County) Winthrop


(City or Town)


The Commonforalth ot Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


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


Registered No.


§ (If death occurred in a hospital or institution,


No. Winthrop Community Hospital . St. 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.)


(a) Residence. No.


2.2 .... Moon .... S.t


St.


Boston


(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


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


3 SEX


Male


White


4 COLOR OR RACE


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


18 DATE OF


DEATH


September


2


(Month)


(Day)


1943 (Year)


19 | HEREBY CERTIFY.


Left 2


to


...


1943.


Left 2


1943


I last saw h ............


alive on


, 19


., death Is sald to


have occurred on the date stated above, at.


6:48 p.m.


Immediate cause of death


Duration IMPORTANT


7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


Stillborn


8


AGE


-


Years


Months


Days


If less than 1 day


Hours


Minutes


Usual


9 Ocoupation :


Industry


10 or Business :


11 Soolal Security No ...


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Binthrop


13 NAME OF


FATHER


Joseph Rizzo


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


Boston


FATHER (City)


(State or country)


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Anna Tello


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


( State or country)


Boston


17 Giulia Rizzo


Greandif Ma the place of Burial, Cremation or Remogtt 3cityown)


Informant


( Address)


Fulton P1 23 Boston


DATE OF BURIAL.


19


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


Ciso Cincotti


ADDRESS


3 .North Sq-Boston


Received and filed


SEP 9 1943


19


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


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


If so, speoify.


Charles Valem


M. D.


( Signed ) ..


(Address)


9 Prince fl Date 9/3/4.3.19


.,


21 ...


St. Michael, Boston


Date of


Of autopsy


What test confirmed diagnosis ?.


IMPORTANT


Major findings :


Of operations


Physician


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


Due to.


Still form


Due to


et 6 months.


That I attended deceased from


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


BOSTON NOTIFIED 10/9/43


1


Baby Boy Rizzo


PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT


(Was deceased a


U. S. War Veteran,


If so speolfy WAR)


(Usual place of abode)


(Signature of Aceof of Board of Health or other) Health affiche or 9) 3/43


( Registrar)


Other conditions.


(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)


EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE


RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH


A physician or registered hospital medical officer shall forthwith, after the death of a person whom he has attended during his last illness, at the request of an undertaker or other authorized person or of any member of the family of the deceased, furnish for registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the 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 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, 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 nineteen hundred and sixtcen 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 body which has not been huried, 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 hoard, 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 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 liereinafter 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, froin 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 removal of such body has been sooner obtained hereunder. If the death certificate contains a recital, as required




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