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If less than 1 day
Hours
Minutes
Relation, if any Saug)
Informant.
(Address)
39 Cimberet St./ Wellesley
Murray
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
Rivere.
1
(City or Town)
No.
Winthrop Hospital
2 FULL NAME
Wendell P
(a) Residence. No.
174 Bradstreet
(Usual place of abode)/
Length of stay: In hospital or institution
2.0
(Before death)
(Specify whether)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 8EX
4 COLOR, OR RACE
B SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Sa If married, widowed, or, divorced
HUSBAND of ...........
4
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
Martina G. Murphy
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
7 IF STILLBORN. enter that fact here.
AGE 69 Years
6
Months 14 Days
Usual
Lawyer
9 Occupation :
-
11 Social Security No.
12 BIRTHPLACE (City).
(State or country)
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Um. Q.A. Muere auf
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
18 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Mary Market
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
Schotland
PARENTS
MOTHER (City) ...
(State or country)
17
Esdayeds 6 Margan
If deceased was a U. S. War Veteran, G. L., Chap. 46, Sec. 10, requires physician to insert a recital to that effect.
See instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate.
DEATH in plain terms, so that it may be properly classified. Exact statement of OCCUPATION is very important.
mation should be carefully supplied. AGE should be stated EXACTLY. PHYSICIANS should state CAUSE OF
Industry
10 or Business :.
newcastle
new Brunswick
R ... .
Important
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
GOVERNING THE
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician or registered hospital medical officer shali forthwith, after the death of a person whoin 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 hls knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, hls supposed age, the disease of which he dled, defined as required by section one, where same was contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen allve 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 sectlon or by sectlon forty-five of chapter one hundred and fourteen, 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, specifying 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 pro- vision of this section, such physician or officer shall forfeit ten dollars. For the purposes of this section and of sections forty-five, forty-six and forty-seven of said chapter one hundred and fourteen, the word "war" shali 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 border service of nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen .- General Laws, Chap. 46, Sec. 10.
No undertaker or other person shali hury or otherwise dispose of a human hody in a town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not heen buried, until he has received a permit from the board of heaith, 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 receiv- Ing tomh 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 huried. No such permit shall he issued until there shall have heen delivered to such board, agent or cierk, as the case may be, a satisfactory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall hc accompanied, in case of an original interment, hy a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required hy 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 in- sufficient, a physician who is a member of the board of health, or em- ployed hy it or hy the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application inake the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused hy violence. the medical examiner shali make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of a human hody, 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 body shail be returned to the town from which it was removed within thirty-aix hours after such removal, unless a perinit in the usual form for the re- moval 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 i eceased 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 Ita agent, upon receipt of such statement and certificate, shall forthwith counteralgn it and transmit it to the clerk of the town for registration. The person to whom the permit is ao given and the physiclan certifyIng the cause of death shail thereafter furnish for registration any other necessary Information which can be ohtained as to the deceased, or as to the manner or cause of the death, which the clerk or reglatrar may require .- Chap. 114, Sec. 45, 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 vloience. 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 lles 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 received a permit so to do from the hoard of health or its agent appointed to issue such permita, or if there is no such board, from the cierk of the town where the body is to be buried or the funeral le to he held, or from a person appointed to have the care of the cemetery or burial ground in which the Interment la made. . . . Chap. 114, Sec. 46, G. L., (Tercentenary Edition).
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calis 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 physiclans will certify to such deaths only as those of persons who, though disahied by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose physician is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.
(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths supposahiy due to injury. These Include not only deaths caused directly or indirectly hy traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and by the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following ahortion, 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 disease causing death. As related causes, name earlier morbid conditlona, if any, related to the principal cause and any Important complication of the principal cause.
Statement of Occupation .- Precise statement of occupation la very important, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can he known. Make some entry in this section for every person aged 10_yeara or over. If the occupation had heen given up or changed on account of the disease causing death, report the usual occupation prior to lliness. If the deceased had retired from husinesa, 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 occupation whatever write none.
SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
R-302
Middlesex
(County)
Tewksbury, Mass. (City or Town) Tewksbury State Hospital and Infirmary
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Tewksbury State Hospital and Infirmary (City or town making return)
2941
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of etreet and number) Yes
2 FULL NAME
Charles F. Cammall
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No.
7 Beacon
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
months
27 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)
18 DATE OF
DEATH
February
2
1946
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY, That [attended deceased from
Jan. 5,
46
toFeb. 2.
1946
(or) WIFE of
(Husband'e name in full)
6 Age of husband or wife If alive years
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that faot here.
AGE Years
.73 9 Months Days
21
If less than 1 day .Hours. .Minutes
Usual
9 Oooupation :
Printer
Industry 10 or Business :
11 Social Security No.
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Mass.
Major findings:
Of operations
Date of
Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.
Of autopsy
What test confirmed diagnosis?
Clinical
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to oocupation of deceased ?
If so, specify
(Signed)
J ...
Jeffrey
Higgs
M. D.
(Address)
T. S. H. and I. Tewksbury
Date .!
2/3
.19.46
....
21 PLACE OF BURIAL,
CREMATION OR REMOVALWinthrop Cem.,
Winthrop
(Cemetery)
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
February 5,
19
46
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Maurice Kirby
ADDRESS
Winthrop, .... Mas.s.
Received and filed APR 6 1946
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
25M-(f)-11-42 10746
va wie city ur tuwu'su which the deceased resided. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.)
PARENTS
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country) Maine
Calais
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Mary Rogers
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country) Maine
Calais
17 Hospital Records
Relation, if any
Informant
(Address)
A TRUE COPY. C. Wanting Houghton Supt.
ATTEST :
(Registrar of city or town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
February 2.
19.46
MARRIED
WIDOWED
Divorced
5a If married, widowed,
HUSBAND of
Härfah .... Ring
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
I last saw h .. 1m ...... allve on
Feb. 2,,
1946, death Is sald to
have occurred on the date stated above, at .. 5:15.P.
.m.
Immediate cause of death.
Cerebral ... Hemorrhage
4 .... days
Due to.
Due to
Other conditions.
Aortic Insufficiency
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
Physician
Boston
13 NAME OF
FATHER
William Cemmall
1
PLACE OF DEATH
No.
St.
Registered No.
(If U. S.
War Veteran, World War
speolfy WAR) .......
Duration
occurred. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.) of the city or town in which the deceased resided as soon as possible after the close of the month in which the death resiaea in another city or town at the time of death should be made forthwith and transmitted on Form R-305 to the clerk
25m (h)-1-41-4667
A TRUE COPY.
ATTEST :
(Registrar of city or town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
Feb.27/46
19
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
Feb. 22/46
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY that I have investigated the death of the person above-named and that the CAUSE AND MANNER thereof are as follows: (If an injury was involved, etate fully.) Pulmonary carcinoma with metástases
20 Acoldent, sulolde, or homlolde (specify)
Date of ocourrence.
19
Where did
Injury ooour ?
(City or town and State)
Did Injury occur in or about the home, on farm, In Industrial place, or in publlo place? (Specify type of place)
Manner of
Collapsed while in ambulance
Injury
Nature of
enroute to hospital
Injury
While at work ?
Was there an autopsy?
No
21 Was disease or Injury In any way related to occupation of deceased ?
if so, speolfy
(Signed)
W J Brickley
M. D.
(Address)
Boston Mass
Date.
2-22
19
46
22
Winthrop Cen-Winthrop Mass.
Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
Feb/25/46
19
23 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
R H White
ADDRESS
Winthrop Mass.
Received and filed. MAR 69 1940 19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased reeided)
..
4 COLOR OR RACE[
W
5 SINGLE
(write the word)
Married
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
5a If marrled, widowed, or divorceHelen Huse
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
6 Age of husband or wife if allve
58
years
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
8 59
AGE Years Months Days
If less than 1 day Houre. Minutes
Usual 9 Occupation :
Stock Clerk
industry
10 or Business :
Mill
11 Social Security No. 029-09-4216
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
East Boston Mass
13 NAME OF
FATHER
William Smith
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
Boston Mass.
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Rose Doane
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Nova Scotia
17 Informant. (Address)
Wife
Relation, if any
-
No.
Enroute to Mass.General Hospital
Che Commonwealth of THassachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY COPY OF MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Boston
(City or town making return)
1892 42 ....
Registered No.
St. {
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
Benjamin D Smith
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No.
117 Revere St
St.
Winthrop Mass
(Usual place of abode)
Length of stay: In hospital or Institution
(Before death)
(Specify whether)
years
months
daye.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
In this community45
yrs.
mos.
daye.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX M
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk
(County)
1
Baston (City or Town)
IR-305
PARENTS
(If U. S.
War Veteran,
speolfy WAR)
₹-302
1
PLACE OF DEATH
Middlesex (County)
Tewksbury, Mass.
(C'ity or Town) Tewksbury State Hospital and Infirmary
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Tewksbury State Hospital and Infirmary (City or town making return)
41
-
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
St.
give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
John.P .Pratt
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No.
66 Cliff
St.
Winthrop
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay : In hospital or Institution.
(Before death)
(Specify whether)
years
months 2 days.
In this community
yTs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
Male
4 COLOR OR RACE
White
5 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCEDMarried
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 6.3
years
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that faot here.
8 AGE.59 Years 8 Months. 1 Days
If less than 1 day
Hours.
Minutos
Usual
9 Oooupation :
Attendant
Industry
10 or Business :
Hospital
11 Social Security No ...
None
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Mass.
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Richard Pratt
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
Not learned
(State or country)
Ireland
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Mary Healy
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?
If so, specify
N. E. Svibergson
M. D.
(Address)
T. S. H. and I., Tewksbury
Date .. 2 ... 2.7.19
.... 4.6
21 PLACE OF BURIAL,
CREMATION OR REMOVAL ...
Winthrop ....
Winthrop
DATE OF BURIAL
March 1,
(City or Tow@6
19
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTORJohn F. O'Maley
ADDRESS
Winthrop., ..... Mas.s ..
Received and filed.
APR-6-1945
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
---
PARENTS
25M-(f)-11-42 10746
A TRUE COPY C. Wintengo Hauchto
Supt.
ATTEST :
(Registrar of city or town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
February 27
19.46
18 DATE OF
DEATH
February.
27
19.4.6
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
Feb. 25,
19
Feb ...
27
19
to.
I last saw him ........ allve on.
Feb. 27
19.4.6, death Is sald to
have occurred on the date stated above, at. 6:25.A. .. m.
Duration
Immedlate cause of death.
Cerebral Hemorrhage
31 hrs.
Due to.
Due to.
Other conditions.
Essential Hypertension Unk.
Physician
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
Underline the cause to
Major findings :
Of operations.
which death
Date of
should be
charged sta-
tistically.
Of autopsy.
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
Clinical
(Signed)
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
Not learned
(State or country) Treland
17 Hospital Records
Informant.
(Addrees)
Relation, if any (
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
& LHEREBY CER 46
That
I attended deceased
46
Nora.N. (not learned)
(If U. S.
War Veteran,
Mary WAR)
Not
learned
(Usual place of abode)
Registered No.
66
No.
Somerville
301 A Suffolk (County) 1 Windelnroß (City of Towny
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. Registared No. 45
§ (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, · give its NAME instead of street and number) 1
2 FULL NAME
Sarah Gaddis
( If deceased Is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residenca. No.
(Usual place of abode )
105 Jumsside Que
St.
Length of stay: In hospital or Institution
( Before death)
( Specify whether)
years
months
days.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
In this community "
yrs.
mos.
dayı.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 SEX
Female
4 COLOR OR RACE
white
5 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
( write the word) Widermed
5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
Salivenpergame eine
( Husband's name in full)
6 Age of husband or wife if aliva
years
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
AGE
8 78 Years 2 Months 4 Days
If lass than 1 day
Hours
Minutas
Usuel
9 Occupation :
at home
Industry
10 or Business :
11 Social Security No.
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
( Siate or country)
Belfast
Theland
13 NAME OF
FATHER
John Dijon
14 BIRTHPLACE DF
FATHER (Clty)
(State or country)
heland
15 MAIDEN NAME Unable to obtain
OF MOTHER
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
..
17 nforma ( Address) 105 tunyzileaug
Relation, If any (daughter
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the During or transit permit was Issued: Vw D' Childress (Signature of Agent of Board of Health or Lather)
Malet Officer 3/4/46
comcial Designation). (Date of house of Permit)
18 DATE OF
DEATH
March
1
1946
( Jfonth )
(Day)
(Year)
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY.
That ! attended deceased from
February 1.
1946
March 1,
19 46
I last saw h. AJ alive on.
February 271946 death Is said to
have ocourred on tha date stated above, at
720 P.m
Immediate cause of death.
acute Coronary thrombosis
Que to
angina Pectoris
Que to
arteriosclerosis
Other conditions
have
( Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
Major findings :
Of operations
hour
Date of
Of autopsy.
none
What test confirmed diagnosis? Clinical+ Laborator
IMPORTANT 10 minutes. 3 years. 5 years.
IMPORTANT
Physician Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to oooupation of daoaased ?
If so, spaolfy ...
(Signed) Maurice Traunstein 05
(Address) 562 Shitty St. Winthrop Date 3/2. 1946
. M. D.
21 ( City of Town) my Pleasant Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal. DATE OF BURIAL. March 1946
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR ..
ADDRESS
174 Kowale
Received and Alad.
19
( Registrar)
100m(i)-1-44-13634
if deceased was a U. S. War Veteran, G. L. Chap. 46, Seotion 10, requires physicians to insert a recital to that effeot. PARENTS
PLACE OF DEATH
-
No.
105 Sunnyside Que
St.
PHYSICIAN . IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR).
euro HH. Hillest
Olhe B Want
Duration
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 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 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 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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