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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, sucb 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 of cause of the death, which the clerk or registrar may require .- Cbap. 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 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 ibe interment is made. ... Cbap. 114. Sec. 46. G. L., (Tercentenary Edition).
Medical examiners shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of ouly such persons as are supposed to have died hy violence. If a medical examiner has notice that there is within his county the hody of such a person, he shall forthwith go to the place where the body 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 sucb deatha only aa those of persona to whom they have given bedside care during a last illness from disease unrelated to any form of injury.
(2) Board of Health physlolans will certify to such deaths only aa 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) Medloal Examiners will investigate and certify to all dicatba aup- 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 dlasasa rsaulting from injury or Infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disablad by recognized dlssass, 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 tbe disease causing death. As related causes, name earlier morbid conditions, if any, related to the principal cause and any important complication of the principal cause.
Statsment of Oooupation .- Precise statement of occupation ia very im- portant, so that the relative 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 death, report the usual occupation prior to illness. If the deceased bad retired from businesa, report the usual occupation prior to retirement. Children not gainfully employed may be returned an at school or at boine. For a woman wbose only occupatiou was that of home housework, write bousework. For a person engaged in domestic service for wages, however, designate the occupation by the appropriate terma, aa housekeeper-private family, cook-hotei, etc. For a person wbo bad no occupation whatever write none.
SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
R-302
Essex
(County)
Danvers
(City or Town) Danvers State Hospital No.
Edith n. Rabethge
2 FULL NAME
(If deceesed is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
228 Bowdoin
(a) Residence. No.
(Usuel place of abode)
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town end State)
Length of stay: In hospital or Institution
(Before death)
(Specify whether)
years
months 6
days.
In this community
yrs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 SEX female
4 COLOR OR RACE
white
5 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWEL
or DIVORCED married
(Month)
(Day)
(Yeer)
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deoeesed from
Jan ....... 16 .. , 19 .... 45 ... to ..........
22
..... ,
19 .... 45
.J Just saw her. ... elive on.
Jan.
Www . 19 .4) death Is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, a
5.101.
m.
6 Age of husband or wife If alive .84
years
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
8
AGE
79 Years.
.Months.
Days
If less than 1 day
.Hours.
......
.. Minutes
Usuel
9 Occupetion :
housewife
Industry 10 or Business :
11 Social Security No ... none
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Elbridge P. Gilman
Major findings :
Of operations.
Underline the cause to which death
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
cannot be learned
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
15 MAIDEN NAMEAnnie M. White OF MOTHER
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Cannot be learned
17
Informant.
(Address)
M.K.McPhillips.
(
Relation, if any
A TRUE COPY.
ATTEST : 1 93it4g city or town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
19
21 "PLACE OF BURIAL,
CREMATION OR REMOVAWinthrop Winthrop
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
22 NAME OF
Howard b. Reynolds
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
ADDRESS
winthrop
Reoelved and filed 19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
25M-(f)-11-42 10746
of the city or town in which the deceased resided. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.) PARENTS
PLACE OF DEATH
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Danvers
(City or town meking return)
Registered No. 15
(If deeth occurred in e hospital or institution, St. give its NAME insteed of street and number)
(If U. S.
War Veteran,
speolfy WAR)
winthrop
5a If married, widowed, or dlvoroed
HUSBAND of
( or ) WIFE
1.Charging maidensmeetwifeinteudolph
(Husband's name in full) Rabethge
Immedlete cause of deeth.
Cardiorenal disease
2 months
Due to
Due to.
Other conditions
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
Physician
Of autopsy.
clinical
tistically.
What test confirmed diegnosis ?
20 Wes disease or injury in eny way related to oocupatlon of deoeesed ?
If so, specify
Doris M. Sidwell
M. D.
(Signed)
Date of
should be charged sta-
(Address)
DSH
Date1/26/15
(Cemetery)
1/24/45
19
1
Boston
18 DATE OF
DEATH
Jan. 22, 1945
Duration
1
A
If deceased was a U. S. War Veteran, G. L., Chap. 46, Sec. 10, requires physicians to insert a recital to that effect. PARENTS
50m-(e)-3-43-11574
PLACE OF DEATE
Suffolk
(County)
Winthrop
(City or Town) 22 Pleasant Pk. Rd,
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
To be flied for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.
16
2 FULL NAME
William H. Westlake
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a)
Residence.
NQ2 Pleasant Park Road
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In hospital or Institution
(Before death)
(Specify whether)
years
months
days.
In this communitTO
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
Mare PEARCED
5a If married, widowHereinreMccarthy
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. ycars
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
8
AGR 4
Years.
Months.
Days
If less than 1 day
Hours.
Minutes
Usual
9 Occupation :
Boilermaker
Industry
10 or Business:
Boiler
11 Social Security No.
031-05 -- 5296
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
England
13 NAME OF
FATHER
William H. Westlake
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
England
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Isabell Kelly
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
England
Major findings:
Of operations
Date of
Of autopsy
What test confirmed diagnosis?
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?
If so, specify
(Signed)
M. D.
(Address) Washipho en Date 1-23-941
17 InformanHelen Westlake
Relation, if any life .
(Address) 22 Pleasant PK. Rd. "
was filed with me BEFORE the burialor transit permit was issued: I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory/ standard certificate of death Www. D. Childress
Signature of Aggty of Board of INth or other)
Healthe officer 1/24/45
7(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)
18 DATE OF
DEATH
(Month)
(Day)
1945 (Year)
19 L HEREBY CERTIFY
Uhr 20
19
That I attended deccased from
45
14.
Jan 23
to ......
19
I last saw h Zalive on a 22, 199 death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at 1 1:30 As
Immediata cause of death
Duration IMPORTANT
Due to.
antero relevo
Due to.
Other conditions.
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
IMPORTANT Physician Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.
21 Woodlawn Everett
Jan /26
Place of Burial, Cremation of Remoyak
DATE OF BURIAL.
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
ADDRESS
Winthrop
Received and filed ..
19
(Registrar)
1
Registrar's No.
No.
§ (If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
St. { give its NAME instead of street and number)
PHYSICIAN-IMPORTANT (Was deceased a U. S. War Veteran, if so specify WAR)
(Usual place of abode)
2.3
Gity or Town)
65
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 onc, 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 seetion 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 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 body in a town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he has received a permit from the hoard 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 or tomb other than the receiving tomb to another in the same cemetery, until he has received a perinit 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 he 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 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 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 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 he 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 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 phy- sician is absent 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 cr indirectly by traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and by the action of chemical (drugs or poisons). thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, but also ueaths 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 .- Canse of death means the disease, or complication which causes death, not the inode 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 iin- portant, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known. Make some entry in this section for every person agcd 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 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
.305
after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.)
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17 Mac White
Relation ff any
Informant
600 .00can Avo .Revere
(Address)
A TRUE COPY.
ATTEST: ...
(Registrar of city or town where death occurred)
1/25/45
19
DATE FILED
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH ....
Jan.23, 1945
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 I 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.)
Acutecardiac ... dilatation
Right coronary sclerosis
Old cardiac infarct
20 Accident, suicide, or homicide (specify)
Date of occurrence .. 19
Where did Injury occur? (City or town and State)
Did injury occur in or about the home, on farm, in industrial place, or in_ public place ?
Manner of
CollapsedSpecify the otplaquickly
Injury
Nature of Injury
yes
While at work ?
Was there an autopsy?
21 Was disease or lojury lu aoy way related to occupation of deceased ?.
If so, specify
Wm. J .Brickloy
(Signed)
Boston
1/23
S.M. D.
(Address)
Date
19
Holy Cross, Maiden, Mass.
22
Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal 26 1 &2tor Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
19
23 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
F.J.UcGlinchey
ADDRESS.
583 Broadway, Chelsea
Received and filed. 19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
1
Chel8.00 (City or Town)
No. .........
enroute .. to .... ChelseaMemorial Hospital
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY COPY OF MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City or town making return) Chelsea
Registered No ..... 5.2
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
WilliamH .White
3
(If U. S.
War Veteran, VIUY
specify WAR)
1
(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
3 SEX M
4 COLOR OR RACE 5 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
or
Sa If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
.Years
6 Age of husband or wife if alive.
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
8 54
AGE Years
Months Days
If less than 1 day
.Hours
Minutes
Bridge render
Usual
9 Occupation:
City of Boston
Industry
10 or Business:
029-09-3070
Il Social Security No.
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
James R.
13 NAME OF
FATHER
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
Yarmouth, N.S.
FATHER (City)
(State or country) Mathilda Muise
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Yarmouth, N.S.
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
Yarmouth, N.S.
PARENTS
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk (County)
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.) 356 Winthrop
.St.
Winthrop, Mass.
(State or country)
.301 A Suffolk Nemthron (County) 1
PLACE OF DEATH
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH STOK NOTIFIS 1 @ 1945 Tenthich community Hospital (City gr Town) No .......
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.
Registered No 18
5 (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)
(If U. S. War Veteran, specify WAR)
East Boston.2.
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
months
days.
In this community
yrs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
Male Nhuto
4 COLOR OR RACE
1
5 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Bedingte
5c 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 7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here,
Fulllow
V
.Years
If less than I day
AGE
Years.
Months ..
-
Days
Hours
Minutes
Usual 3 Occupation: Industry 10 or Business:
Il Social Security No.
12 BIRTHPLACE (City) (State or country)
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Winthrop Max
Frank Antonucci
€
15 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER
Ancilla Yuppi
16 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country)
17 Frank Antonune Relation,
Informant (Address) 15 Beach New Og & Bota
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with mo BEFORE the bugal op traykit pormit was issued: Www.D . Childress (Signature of ijos of Board of Heather other) Health officer "Official Designation
1/24/45 (Date of Lque of Permit)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
(Month)
(Day)
25
1945 (Year)
HEREBY CERTIFY.
That I attended deceased from
19.
...... , to ..
19
/ I last saw h ............ alive on ..
19
death is said
to have occurred on the date stated above, at 7.14 H m.
Immediate cause of death. Stillbom
Duration
IMPORTANT
birch
Due to
Hydranu
Due to
primatum Reparten
Clararation
Other conditions
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death )
PHYSICIAN
Major findings : Of operations
Underline the cause to which death
Of autopsy
should be charged sta- What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
tistically.
29 Was disease or lojury In any way related to occupation of deceased?
If so, specify. Lethi
. M. D.
(Signed) 5% Irgent JEG Date Jan 2519 45 (Address)
2. It Muchas 25. (City or Town) 19:15 Place of Burial. Cremation or Removal. DATE OF BURIAL .. fan Michael J. bagnano 22 NAME OF FUNERAL DIRECTOR ADDRESS 978 Varatogo St. 6,6%ll
Racoived and Aled 19
(Registrar)
8 is very important. See instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate. PARENTS
2 FULL NAME
Baby (200 + Antonucci
(If deceased Is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.) 15 Beach View Grad
(a) Residence. No ..
(Usual place of abode)
Hospital
(Specify whether)
St.
Length of stay: In hospital or institution ..
years
East Bodon,
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14 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) (State or country)
Date of.
Vedranencas
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 regis- tration a standard certificate of death, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died, defined as required by section one, where same was contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive by the physician or officer and the date of his death ... Gen. Laws, Chap. 46, Sec. 9.
No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a human body in a town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he has received a permit from the board of health, or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the person died ; and no undertaker or other person shall 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 de- livered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satisfac- tory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an original interment, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a physician who is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or by the selectmen for the pur- pose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the at- tending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical exam- iner shall make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of a human body, not previously interred, from one town to another within the commonwealth cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, the certificate of death made as above provided and in the possession of the undertaker desiring to make such removal shall constitute a permit for such removal ; provided, that such body shall be returned to the town from which it was removed within thirty- six hours after such removal, unless a permit in the usual form for the removal of such body has been sooner obtained hereunder. If the death certificate contains a recital, as required by section ten of chapter forty-six, that the deceased served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been engaged, such recital shall appear upon the permit. The board of health, or its agent, upon receipt of such statement and certificate, shall forthwith countersign it and transmit it to the clerk of the town for registration. The person to whom the permit is so given and the physician certifying the cause of death shall thereafter fur- nish for registration any other necessary information which can be obtained as to the deceased, or as to the manner or cause of the death, which the clerk or registrar may require .- Chap. 114, Sec. 45, G. L., (Tercentenary Edition.)
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