Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1946, Part 16

Author: Winthrop (Mass.)
Publication date: 1946
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 526


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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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