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Physician
Major findings : Of operations.
Underline the cause to which death
Of autopsy
What test confirmed diagnosis ?. C.linical
20 Was disease or Injury In any way related to oocupatlon of deoeased ? if so, specify.
(Signed).
Donald J. Maclean
(Address)
calmer
mass.
8/14 . 45
Date
21 PLACE OF BURIALNt.
majet
Cem.
CREMATION OR REMOVAL .....
... Boston ...... Mas ......
(Cemetery)
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
august ..
10
16.5.
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
......... aurive .... i.pby.
ADDRESS
winthrop ........ MaGB ..
Reoelved and filed.
AUG 20 1945
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased realded)
50m (e)-1-41-4667
PLACE OF DEATH
Hampden (County)
1
Lonson. (City or Town)
No. Konson .... State .... Hospital
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Lonson (City or town making return)
153
(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.)
14
11
27
years
months
days.
In this community
yrs.
(Before death ) .. OnSaspecifytwhether) Hospital
St. winthrop, Mass ..
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
14 11
mos.
27
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
of the city or town in which the deceased resided. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.) resided in another city or town at the time of death should be made forthwith and transmitted on Form R-802 to the clerk Copies of returns of deaths recorded during the previous month which occurred in your city or town in case the deceased
Relation, if. ap
Date of
should be charged sta- tistically.
Duration
33 yrs
1
Registered No.
IR-302
Essex
-
(County)
Danvers
(C'ity or Town)
No. Danvers state Hospital
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
Mary Louise Morrill
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
140 Shirley
St.
Winthrop
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In hospital or Institution
(Before death)
(Specify whether)
years
7 months
5 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
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
widowed
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY,
Jan .. ........ , 19 ..... .45 to
That I attended deceased from 1.4 19 ...... 4.5
I last saw h .......... allve on
14
. 19 .... 4.death Is sald to
have ocourred on the date stated above, at 11.50P m.
Duration
Immedlate cause of death. Chronic myocarditis
5yrs
Generalized arteriosclerosis
15yrs
Due to.
Due to.
Industry 10 or Business :
11 Social Security No ..
none
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
Carnel,
(State or country)
Me
13 NAME OF
FATHER
John opearing
PARENTS
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
maine
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
varah Perry
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Maine
17
Informant.
(Address)
.M.K. McPhillips
DSM
Relation, if any
A TRUE COPY.
ATTEST:
(Registrar of city or town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
8/20/45
.19
18 DATE OF
August 14, 1945
DEATH
5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
winfield & mort
den name of wife in full)
(Husband's name in full)
6 Age of husband or wife if alive
years
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that faot here.
8
91
AGE.
Years Months. Days
If less than 1 day
.. Hours ...
.Minutes
Usual
9 Oooupation :
unable to work
Other conditions.
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
Physician
Major findings :
Of operations
Date of
should be
charged sta- tistically.
What test
onfirmed diagnosis? clinical
20 Was disease or Injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ? If so, speolfy.
(Signed) ....... Le.o ...... ale.t.z
M. D.
(Address)
Evergreen
brighton
DATE OF BURIAL
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
J .
3. Waterman & sons
ADDRESS
Boton
Received and filed SEP 8 1945 19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
1
25 M-(f) -11-42 10:46
resided in another city or town at the time of death should be made forthwith and transmitted on Form R-802 to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased resided. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.)
PLACE OF DEATH
1
Registered No.
Date.
8/179 .45
Underline the cause to which death
Of autopsy
21 PLACE OF BURIAL,
CREMATION OR REMOVAL.
(Cemetery)
8/17/45
Town) 19
(If U. S.
War Veteran,
speolfy WAR)
-301 A
1
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk (County)
Winthrop
(City or Town) 187 Lincoln Street
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
Registered No. 155.
§ (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. [ give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
Mary Elizabeth (Ritchie) Kinney
( If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No.
187 Lincoln Street
(Usual place of abode)
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Langth of stay : In hnsoltat nr Institution
(Before death)
( Specify whether)
years
months
days.
In this community
53 yrs.
mos. days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
4 COLOR OR RACE!
5 SINGLE
( write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCEWidow
Female White
5a If married, widowed, or divoroed
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
(Cive
sähuer A Kinney
( Husband's name In full)
6 Age of husband or wife if aliva yaars
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact hera.
8
84
AGE
Years
3
Months
12 Days
If less than 1 day
Hours
Minutas
Usual
9 Occupation :
Housewife
Industry
Own Home
10 or Business :
11 Social Security No.
None
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
( Siste or country)
Yarmouth
Novia Scotia
13 NAME OF
FATHER
John Ritchie
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
Aberdeen
FATHER (City)
( State or country)
Scotland
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Jane Pitman
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
Richmond
( State or country)
Scotland
Daughter, If any
17 Informant Dorothy ( Address) 187
cbin gt winthrop
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a Mitlafactory standard certificata of daath was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was Issued : Hau. S. Children 8. ( Signature of Arest of Board of Health or other)
Health Officer 8/20/45
( Oficial Designation)
( Date of Imque of Permit)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
august 17
gsfonth )
(Day)
(Year)
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY,
19 ..
31
45
to
august 17 1945
I last saw her alive on
august17 1955
death Is sald to
hava ocourred on the date stated above, at.
1:30 Pm
Impigdlate oause of death. Carcinoma of Sigurard
Dua to
Sencial Carcinomatosis
Due to. Uremia
Other conditions
none
( Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
IMPORTANT
Major findIngs :
Of operations
une
Data of
Of autopsy
June
What test o
Clinicaex Cali
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of daceased
If so, spoolfy ...
(Signad) Jacob
abiqua ADmy
....
(Address) 562 Hunley IT
Data 8/17 045
Winthrop
21
Winthrop
Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal.
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
August 20
45
19
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Howards Ronaldo,
ADDRESS
Winthrop means.
Received and flad
AUG 23 10 **
( Registrar)
100m(:) -1-44.13634
extracts from the laws on back of certificate. If deceased was a U. S. War Veteran, Q. L. Chap. 46, Section 10, requires physicians to Insert a recital to that effeot. PARENTS
1945
That 1 attendad deosasad from
Duration
3 mas 2 days
Physician Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta. tistically.
2
No.
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
St.
-
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 helief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died, defined as re- quired hy section one, where same was contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive hy 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 hest of his knowledge and helief, served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been engaged, insert iu the certificate a recital to that effect, speci- fying the war, and shall also certify in such certificate hoth 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, he deemed to have taken place between February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and July fourth, nineteen hundred and two, and the Mexican horder service of nineteen hundred and sixteen and nine- teen hundred and seventeen. G. L. Chap. 46, Sec. 10.
No undertaker or other person shall hury or otherwise dispose of a human body in a town, or remove therefrom a human hody which has not heen 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 hody 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 hoard of health or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the town where the hody is buried. No such permit shall he issued until there shall have heen delivered to such hoard, agent or clerk, as the case may he, a satisfactory written statement containing the facts required hy law to he returned and recorded, which shall he accompanied, in case of an original interment, hy 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 hoard of health, or employed hy it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make 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 within the commonwealth cannot he 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 hody shall he 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 heen 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 hoard 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 he 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).
Medical examiners shall make examination upon the view of the dead hodies of only 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 hody lies and take charge of the same; .. . - General Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 6.
No undertaker or other person shall bury a human hody 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 agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such hoard, from the clerk of the town where the body is to he huried 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).
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 hedside 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 hy recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose phy- sician 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 indirectly hy traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and hy the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following ahortion, hut also deaths from disease resulting from injury or infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled hy 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 morhid 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 he 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 he 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
R-301 A
PLACE OF DEATH
SUFFOLK (County) WINTHROP (City or Town) 42 HARBORVIEW AVENUE No.
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.
156
. " (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. ¡ give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME.
MARY C. WALSH BERGERT
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No.
42 HARBOR VIEW AVE
(Usual place of abode)
NONE
years
months days.
In this community yrs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
FEMALE
4 CDLOR OR RACE WHITE
5 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of JOHNJ. WALSH wife in full)
(Husband's name in full)
6 Age of husband or wife if alive
years
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
89 Years
Months L .. Days
If less than 1 day Hours ..... Minutes
Usual
9 Dccupation :
AT HOME
Industry
HOUSE WIFE
11 Social Security No.
NONE
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
MOUND CITY ILLINOIS
13 NAME OF FATHER AUGUSTUS BERGER
14 BIRTHPLACE DF
FATHER (City)
FRANCE
(State or country)
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
SUSAN BRAZIL
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
MONTREAL, QUEBEC
(State or country)
17 Informant MRS. LOUISE MORAN ( Address)
DAUGHTER 42 HARBOR VIET AVE
I HEREBY CERTIFY, that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the barjal or transit permit was Issued : Www. D . Chil dress
( Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other) Healthe Officer Date of Issue of Permy) 8/27/10
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE DF
DEATH
August
24
1945
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY.
That I attended deceased from
aug 21-
45
to ..
Qua 24 -
1945
I last sawh Er
.alive on.
aug 24 , 195 death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
7.42
p.m.
Immediate cause of death
Broncho - pneumonia
IMPORTANT
3 days
0
Due to
Due to
Other conditions.
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
Major findings : Of operations
Date of.
Of autopsy
What test confirmed dlagnosis ?.
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ? No If so, specify.
(Signed)
...
M. D.
(Address) 200 Washington Ave Date 8-25-1945
21 WINTHROP-CEM. WINTHROP Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal, (City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL AUGUST 27 1945
22 NAME DF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
R.C. KIRBY
ADDRESS
BOSTON
Received and filed
AUG 2-8-1945
........ 19
( Official Designation)
( Registrar)
100m (d)- 1-41-4667
1 PARENTS If deceased was a U. S. War Veteran. G. L. Chap. 46, Seotlon 10, requires physicians to insert a reoital to that effeot. terms, so that it may be property classified. Exact statement of VegeTATVi ! very important. oct instructions die AGE extracts from the laws on back of certificate.
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
If so specify WAR)
NO
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay : In hospital or Institution.
( Before death)
(Specify whether)
Registered No.
.
IMPORTANT Physician Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta. tistically.
Duration ..
10 or Business :
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physlolan 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 atandard 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 aa re- quired by seetion one, where same was contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive by the physician or officer and the date of hia death ... Gen. Laws, Chap. 46, Scc. 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 corpa 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 inunediate cause of death as nearly as he can state the samc. 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 decmed to have taken place between February fourteenth, eightcen hundred and ninety-eight and July fourth, nineteen hundred and two, and the Jicxi- can border service of nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen. G. L. Chap. 46, Sec. 10.
No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a human body in a town, or remove therefrom a human 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 delivered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satisfactory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an original interment, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a physi- cian who is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate re- quired of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medi- cal examiner shall make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of a human body. not previously interred. from one town to another within the conmnouwealth 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 aerved in the army, navy or marine corps of the United Statea 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 ia so given and the physiclan 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 aahes 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 ia 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. 14., (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 ia 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 calla 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 discase unrelated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose physi- cian is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.
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