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Date of
Of autopsy
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
Underline the cause to which death should ba charged sta- tistically.
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? No-
If so, spaolfy ..
(Signed),
Edward S. Granger1
M. D.
(Address)
200 Harbers turtur Date Sam, 20 19 45
21
.Furitian Ly
l'lace of Burial, Cremation or Remordi.
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL ....
Jan ..... 22 ..... 1945
19
....
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR.
Richard H. White
ADDRESS
147 Winthrop St., Winthrop
Received and filed 19
( Registrar) X
100M-6 -2-42-8855
extracts from the laws on back of certificate. If deceased was a U. S. War Veteran, G. L. Chap. 46, Seotlon 10, requires physicians to insert a recital to that effect. PARENTS
r
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT (was deceased a U. S. War Veteran, if so speolfy WAR) ..... none. ....
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
(Specify whether)
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
59.
Duration
......
....
St.
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physlolan or registered hospital medical officer shali forthwith, after e death of a person whoin he has attemied during his last illness, at the quest of an undertaker or other authorizeil person or of ans meniber of he family of the deceased, furnish for registration a standard certificate f death, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief the name of the eceused. his supposed age, the disease of which he died. defined as re- uired by section one. where ssme was contracted. the duration of his last liness, when last seen alive hy the physician or officer and the date of his eath ... Cen. Laws, Chap. 46, Sec. 9.
A physician or officer furnishing a certificate of death as required by the receding section or by section forty-five of chapter one hundred and four- een, shall, if the deceased, to the best of his knowledge and belief, served the army, navy or marine corps of the I'nited States in any war in which has been engaged. insert in the certificate a recital to that effect, speci- ying the war. and shall also certify in such certificate both the primary nd the secondary or immeiliate csuse of death ss nearly as he can state he saine. For neglect to comply with any provision of this section, such hysician or officer shall forfeit ten dollars. For the purposes of thia aec- ion and of sections forty-five, forty-six and forty-seven of said chapter one umlred and fourteen, the word "war" shall include the China relief ex- edition and the Philippine insurrection, which shall, for said purposea, he eenied to have taken place hetween February fourteenth, eighteen hundred nd ninety eigiit and July fourth. nineteen hundred and two, and the Mexi- an border service of nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred nd seventeen. C. L. Chisp. 46, Sec. 10.
No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a human ody 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 gent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from he 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 enietery to another, or from one grave or tomb other than the receiving omh to another in the same cemetery, until he has received a permit from he hoard of heaith or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the town where the boily is buried. No such permit shail be issued until tbere ahall have been delivered to such board, agent ;or clerk, as the case may he, satisfactory written statement containing the facts required by law to be eturned and recorded, which shall be accompanied. in case of an original nternient, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, is required hy law, o1 in lieu thereof a certifleste as hereinafter provided. f there is no attending physician, or If, for sufficient reasons, his certificate anot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a physi- ian who is a meniber of the board of health, or employed by it or by the electmen for the purpose, shail upon application niske the certificate re- quired of the attending physician. If death is caused hy 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 witirin the commonwealth cannot he obtained esrly enough for the purpose, the certificate of desth made as above provided and in the possession ot the undertaker desiring to make such removsi shall constitute a permit for ruch removal; provided, that such body shall be returned to the town from which it was removed within thirty-six hours after such removal, unless permit in the usual form for the removal of such hody 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 physiciau certifying the cause of death shail thereafter furnish for registration any other neces sary information which can be obtained as to the deceased. or as to the manner or callse 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 board of health or its agent appointed to lasue 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 tbe care of the cemetery or burial ground in which the interment is made. ... Chap. 114. Sec. 46. G. L., (Tercentenary Edition).
Medical examiners shail make examinstion 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 shail forthwith go to the place where the body lies 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 phyalcians will certify to such deatha only aa those of persons to whom they have given hedside care during a last illness from disease unrelated to any form of injury.
(2) Board of Health phyalolans will certify to such deaths only aa those of persons who, though disahled hy 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.
(8) Medioal Examiners will investigate and certify to ail deatha sup- posably due to Injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or in- directiy hy traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and by the action of chenrical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, aml deaths following abortion, but aixo deaths from dlacaaa resulting from injury or infection related to occupation, the audden deatha of persons not disabled by recognized dlacase, and those of persons found dead.
Statement of Cause of Death .- Cause of death meana the disease, or complication which causes death. not the mode of dying, e. g., heart failure, asphyxia, asthenia, etc. Aa principal 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 Oooupatlon .- Precise statement of occupation la very 1m- portant, so that the relative heaithfulness of various pursuits can be known. Make some entry In this section for every persou 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 Iliness. If the deceased had retired from business, report the usual occupation prior to retirement. Children not gainfully employed may he returned as at school or at horne. For a woman whose only occupatiou waa that of honre housework, write bousework. For a person engaged in domestic service for wages, however, designate the occupation by the appropriate terme, aa housekeeper-private family, cook-hotel, etc. For a person who had no occupation whatever write none.
SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
A
1
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk
(County)
Winthrop (City or Town) 5I Atlantic St.
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.
13
§ (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. [ give its NAME instead of strect and number)
PHYSICIAN-IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR).
(a) Residence. No. 5I Atlantic St St.
(Usual place of abode)
(If nonresident, give cityzoniown 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
4 COLOR OR RACE
White
5 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Married
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of Mary V. Sullivan Tiews
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
6 Age of husband or wife if alive. 63
years
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
8 A 64
Years.
Months.
Days
If less than 1 day
Hours.
Minutes
Usual
9 Occupation:
Inspector
Industry
10 or Business:
U. S. Army
11 Social Security No. .
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
New York N.Y.
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Charles Tiews
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
New York
N. Y.
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Anna
Miller
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
New York
NY
17 Mary V. T. 5tie Atlantic St .
was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death William D. Children (Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
agent Jan, 21/45
(Official b)signation) (Date of Issac of Permit)
18 DATE OF
DEATH
(conth)
(Day)
19 1945 (Year)
19
I
HEREBY CERTIFY
13,4,50
That I attended deceased from
to.
Jan 19
19.
45
I' last saw h
alive on 1524
19, 1946, death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at 1430 PM
Immediata cause of death ..
Cadilhemitinge
Duration IMPORTANT 2 day
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?
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.
(Signed)
M. D.
WashingtonDate 20-1945
21 Winthrop Hinthrop
Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal.
DATE OF BURIAL
Jan.
22)
1945/
19
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
ADDRESS
Palme IRO Males Winthrop
Received and filed
19/
10.15
(Registrar)
50m-(c)-3-43-11574
If deceased was a U. S. War Veteran, G. L., Chap. 46, Sec. 10, requires physicians to insert a recital to that effect. PARENTS
-
No.
2 FULL NAME
Charles J. Tiews
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
Registrar's No.
(City of Town)
Informant
(Address)
Relation, if any
Wife
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
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 be died, defined as re- quired by section one, where same was contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last scen alive by the physician or officer and the date of his deatlı ... Gen. Laws, Cbap. 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 armny, 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 expedition 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 Mexican border service of nineteen hundred and sixteen and nine- teen hundred and seventeen. G. L. Chap. 46, Sec. 10.
No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a human hody in a town, or remove therefrom a human body which bas 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 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 tomh to another in the same cemetery, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent aforcsaid or from the clerk of the town where the body is huried. 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, 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 hoard 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 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 bereunder. 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 furnish for registration any other neces- sary 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 re- ceived a permit so to do from the board of health or its agent appointed to issue sucb 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 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).
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 lies 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 ohservance 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 phy- sician is absent from home when the certificate of death is nceded.
(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths sup- posably due to injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or indirectly by traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and by tbe action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, hut also deaths from disease resulting from - injury or infection related to 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 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 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, how- ever, designate the occupation hy the appropriate terms, as housekeeper --- private family, cook-hotel, etc. For a person who had no occupation whatever write none.
SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
-301 A
per Welfare Dept
1130/45
1
Winthrop
(City or Town)
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.
Registered No. 14
( If death occurred in a hospital or institution, { give ita NAME instead of street aud number) St.
2 FULL NAME
Anna Barrow Whittaker
( If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No.
41 Wahsington Ave.
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In hospital or Institution
(Before death)
years
months
days.
in this community 35 yrs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
Famle
White
4 COLOR OR RACE
5 SINGLE
( write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Widoned
5a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(Give, maiden name of, wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
John ... Lewis ... Whittaker
( Husband's name in full)
6 Age of husband or wife if alive
years
IF STILLBORN. enter that fact here.
8
76
AGE Years 2 Months 11 Days
If less than 1 day
.Hours
.Minutes
Usual
9 Occupation :
Retired
Industry
10 or Business :
At .... Home
11 Social Security No.
none
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(Siste or country)
Eng land
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Thomas Barrow
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Eng land
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHERElizabeth Robingon
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
England
17 Relation, if any
Informant.Tovm Winthrop WelfareRecords ( Address)
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burhat or transit permit was issued :
(Signature of Ageht of Board of Health or other)
Realthe officer 1/24/45
(Official Designation) ( Date of Issue of Permity
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
Jan ..... 21 ..... 1945.
( Month)
(Day)
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deosased from
Jan 19
1945.
to
an 21.
1945
1 last saw her
„alive on ...........
20, 1940, death is said to
have oocurred on the date stated above, at ...
1.30 Pm
Immediate cause of death
Coronary Thrombosis
Duration Sudden .IMPORTANT
Due to. Senile 1440 C Ardiles
Due to
Other conditions.
( Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
Major findings :
Of operations
Date of
Of autopsy
What test confirmed diagnosis? Clinical Signs
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? 20
if so, specify
(Signed)
Hanba Date /04 2319
(Address)
M. D.
21
.... Winthrop
Winthrop
Place of Burial, Creniation or Removal.
DATE OF BURIAL .......
Jan ..... 24 .... 1945.
(City or Town)
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
ADDRESS
.147 Winthrop St., Winthrop
19
Received and flied AM & 3 1045
( Registrar)
100M-6 - 2-42-8855
extracts from the laws on back of certificate. If deceased was a U. S. War Veteran, G. L. Chap. 46. Section 10, requires physiolans to Insert a reoital to that effect. PARENTS
Suffolk
PLACE OF DEATH
(County)
No. 41 Washington Ave .. Emma
(Usual place of abode)
(Specify whether)
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so spoolfy WAR).
none
(Year)
Lah
IMPORTANT Physician
Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician or ragiatsred hospital medical officer shall forthwith, after the death of a person whom he has attended during his last illnesa, at the request of an undertaker or other authorized person or of ans meniber of the family of the deceased, furnisb for registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the best of his knowledge sud belief the name of the decessed, 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 illnesa, 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 helief, aerved 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 cause of death as nearly as he can state the saine. For neglect to comply with any provision of this section, sucb physician or officer shall forfeit ten dollars. For the purposes of this aec- tion and of sections forty-five, forty-six and forty-seven of said chapter one bundred 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 hetwcen February fourteenth, eigliteen hundred and ninety-eight and July fourth. nineteen hundred and two, and the Slexi- can border service of nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen bundred and seventeen. G. L. Chap. 46, Sec. 10.
No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a buman 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 lasue 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 ahall exhume a human body and remove it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomb other thau tbe 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 sucb board, agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satisfactory written statement containing the facta 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. 01 in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot he obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a pbysi- cian who ia 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 early enough for the purpose, the certificate of desth made as above 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 body has been sooner obtained hereunder. If the death certificate contains a recital, as required
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