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SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE
DATE OF DISCHARGE
RANK, RATING
ORGANIZATION AND OUTFIT SERVICE NUMBER
1301 A
PLACE OF DEATH -
Suffolk (County) Winthrop
The Commontoralth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
St.
$ { If death occurred in a hospital or Institution,
{ give Its NAME instead of street and nuniber)
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so speolfy WAR).
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
(If nonresident, give clty or town end State)
Length of stay: In hospital or Institution
( Before death)
(Specify whether)
years
months
days.
in this community > yrs.
mos.
-
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX Female
4 COLOR OR RACE|
white
5 SINGLE
write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED BYried
or DIVORCED
Sa If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
Joseph
Glike manden face of Life In full )
( Husband's name 'in full)
6 Age of husband or wife if alive 68
years
7 IF STILLBORN. enter that fact here.
8
AGE
66
Months
Days
If less than 1 day Hours Minutes
Usual
9 Occupation :
housework
Industry
10 or Business :
our home
11 Social Security No.
NONE
12 BIRTHPLACE
( Siate or country)
Boston
mass
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Richard Howard
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
Ireland
(State or country)
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Bridget E Kennedy
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Ireland
17 Informant Joseph F Preg SVIFeesant Folk Rock
Relation, if any (husband
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death wes filed with me BEFORE the burlat of transit permit was Issued :
(signature of Agent of Board of Health or offr). Health effects 4/18/16
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)
18 DATE OF
DEATH
Whirl
1)
1941
( Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY. Thet I attended deosased from
4.6
1-1-
1945 to.
19 ...
I last saw h ... allve on.
4-16 - 194 death Is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, 4.20 A .m.
Immediate oause of death.
Duration IMPORTAN
Que to ..
4 sp
Due to .....
Other conditions.
( Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
IMPORTAN
Major findIngs : Of operations.
Date of
Of autopsy
What test confirmed dlegnosis ?.
Physician Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.
20 Was disease or injury in any way releted to oooupation of deceased ?.
if so, speolfy
(Signed)
(Address)
M. D.
21
Holywood
Brookline
Place of Burial, Cremationor Removal. "City or Town) 46
20%
DATE OF BURIAL
19
.....
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTUneEntreFFEadEN
ADDRESS/ 09 Herren St Charleslad
19
Received and Åled APR 27 1945
( Registrar)
-
A. M .
1
No.
ist Pheasant Park Road alice R Prea
To be filed for burial permi with Board of Health or its Agent.
Registered No.
21
(Howard)
2 FULL NAME
( If deceased is a armyied, widowed or dharsed women, give also maiden name.)
15 Pleasant Park Road
St.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
If deceased was a U. S. War Veteran, G. L. Chap. 46, Section 10, requires physicians to insert a recital to that effect. PARENTS
100M-6 - 2-42-8855.
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician or registered hospital medioel officer shall 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, furnisb for registration a standard certificate of desth, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, bis supposed age, the disease of which he died. defined as re- quired by section one, where ssme wss contracted. the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive by the physician or officer and the date of bis 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 I'nited States in any war in which it has been engaged. insert in the certificate a recitsl to that elect, speci- fying the war. sud shsil elso certify in such certificate both the primary and the secondary or immediste cause of death as nearly as he can state the ssine. For neglect to comply with any provision of this section, such physician or officer shall forfeit ten dollars. For the purposes of thie sec- tion and of sections forty-five, forty-six and forty-seven of said chapter one hundred and fourteen, the word "war" shall incluile the China relief ex- pedition and the Philippine insurrection, which shall, for said purposea, he deemed to have taken place hetween February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and July fourth, ninete Phundred and two, and the Mexi- can border service of nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen bundred and seventeen. C. L. Clisp. 46, Sec. 10.
No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a buman body in a town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he has received a permit from the board of health, or ita agent appointed to lasue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or otber person shall exhume a human body and remove it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from olie grave or tomb other than the receiving tomb to another In the same cemetery, until be has received a permit from the bosrd of health or its agent aforessid or from the clerk of the town where the boely is buried. No such permit shall be issued until there aball have been delivered to sucb board, sgent or clerk, as the case inay be, a satisfactory written statement containing the fsets required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied. in case of an original internient, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law, o1 in lieu thered certificate as liereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or cannot be obtained early enough for
for sufficient reasons, his certificate purpose, or is insufficient, a physi- cian who ie a member of the hoard of health, or employed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate re- quired of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, tbe medi- cal examiner chall make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of a human body, not previously interred, froin one town to another within the commonwealth cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, the certificate of desth made as above provided and in the possession ot the undertaker desiring to make such removal shall constitute a permit for ruch removal; provided, that such body shall be returned to the town from which it was removed within thirty-six hours after such removal, unless 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 heen engaged. sucb recital shall appear upon the permit. The board of health. or its agent. upon receipt of such statement and certificete, 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 nece+ 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 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 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. C. L., (Tercentenary Editiou).
Medical examiners shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of ouly such persons as are supposed to have died by 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 lica and take charge of the same; ... - General Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 6.
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these lawe calle for the observance of the following rules of practice :
(1) Attending physicians will certify to sucb deatha 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 physlolans will certify to such deaths only ae those of persons who, though disahled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury. have died without recent medical attenelance or whose pbyat- cian is ahsent from home when the certificate of death is needed.
(3) Medloal Examinera will investigate and certify to all dcatbe sup- 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 aiso deaths from diseasa resulting from injury or Infeotlon related to oooupatlon, the sudden deaths of persona not disablad by recognized disease, and those of persons found dead.
Statement of Cause of Death .- Cause of deathı means the disease, or complication which causes death. not the mode of dying, e. g., heart failure, asphyxia, asthenla, etc. Aa principal cause name tbe disease caualng 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 ia very im- portant, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known. Make some entry in this section for every persou aged 10 years or over. If the occupation had been given up or changed on account of the discase causing desth, report the usual occupation prior to illness. If the deceased had retired from businesa, report the usual occupation prior to retirement. Children not gainfully employed may be returned aa at school or at hoine. For a woman whose only occupation was that of home bousework, write housework. For a person engaged in domestic service for wages, however, designate the occupation by the appropriate terma, aa housekeeper-private family, cook-hotel, etc. For a person wbo had no occupation whatever write none.
SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Rank and Branch of Service
Date of Enlistment
Date ... of ... Discharge
Serial Number
Section of Cemetery
Number of Grave
-301 A ||1
information should be carefully supplied. Must siguld be este de la is very important. See instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate.
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk (County)
Winthrop
(City or Town)
No .... 88 .. Woodside.Aye ...
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.
72
§ (If death occurred In a hospital or institution, St. [ give its NAME instead of street and number) - (If U. S. War Veteran, specify WAR)
2 FULL NAME ..... Hazel ... Ruth ... Smith
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
... 88 .. Woodsi.de .. A
v.
St
(If nonresident, give city or town and state)
Length of stay: In hospital or institution
(Specify whether)
years
months
days.
In this community 17 yrs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX Female
4 COLOR OR RACE
White
5 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Single
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.
AGE
8 37 .Years 4 Months. 22 Days
If less than 1 day
Hours ....
Minutos
Usual
9 Occupation :
Billing Clerk
Industry
Electric Light Co.
10 or Business:
11 Social Security No.
017-0714441
12 BIRTHPLACE (City).
(State or country)
Mass.
PARENTS
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City) ....
Sommerville
(State or country)
Nova Scotia
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Flossie Thompson
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
Bath
MOTHER (City) ...
(State or country)
Maine
Relation, if any
17 Flossie Smith ( Mother
(Address)
88 Woodside Ave., Winthrop
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: i. D. tildelt (Sighature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
Health Officer 4/18/46
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permity
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH ...
April
17
1946
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19
I HEREBY CERTIFY,
200, 15
19.45, to ..
Cémie 17
194/6
I last saw her alive on
Apfel 16, 1946 death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at.
Immediate gause of death
Carcinoma of
Duration IMPORTANT
Intestines.
Due to.
Due to.
Other conditions. (Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
IMPORTANT
PHYSICIAN
Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?.. 200
If so. specify ..
(Signed)
(Address) Winthrop
Date April1946 Peabody, Mas
21 Puritan Lawn
Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal.
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL ...
April .... 20 ..... 1946
19
22 NAME OF
Richard 16 White
FUNERAL DIRECTOR ...
ADDRESS
247 Winthrop St., Winthrop
Received and filed
APR 27 1940
19
(Registrar)
100m-2-'40-D-729-8
Medford
13 NAME OF
FATHER
James H. Smith
Major findings:
Carcinoma of
Of operations
Intestines
Date of.
August
1940
Of autopsy.
What test confirmed diagnosis? Clinical Signs
That I attended deceased from
2.30 P
„.m.
...
year
M. D.
1
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 deccased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died, defined as required 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.
No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a human body in a town, or remove therefrom a human hody which has not heen huried. until he has received a permit from the board of health, or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there Is no such hoard, 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 tomh 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 aforesald 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 hy law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accoinpanied, in case of an original Interment, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required hy law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as herelnafter provided. If there Is no attending physician, or if, for sufficlent reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or Is In- sufficient, a physician who is a member of the hoard of health, or em- ployed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused hy vloience, the medical examiner shall 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 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 re- moval of euch body has been sooner ohtalned hereunder. If the death certificate contains a recital, as required hy 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 physiclan certifylng the cause of death shall thereafter furnish 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).
No undertaker or other person shall bury a human body or the ashes thereof which have been hrought into the commonwealth until he has received 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 be held, or from a person appointed to have the care of the cemetery or burial ground In which the interment Is made. . . . Chap. 114. Sec. 46, G. L., (Tercentenary Edition).
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observance of the following rules of practice:
(1) Attending physiclans 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 hy 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 supposably 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 abortion, but also deaths from disease resulting from injury or infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disahled 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, asthenla, 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 important, 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 heen given up or changed on account of the disease causing death, report the usual occupation prior to Illness. If the deceased had retired from husiness, 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
-301 A
1
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk (County)
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,
73
Registared No.
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
Length of stay: In hospital or Institution
( Before death)
( Specify whether)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX Male
4 COLOR OR RACEI
White
5 SINGLE
( write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
Or DIVORCED Widowed
Sa If marrled, widowad, or divoroed
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
Hattie A Call
(or) WIFE of
( Husband's name in full)
6 Age of husbend or wife if aliva yaars
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact hera.
8
AGE
Years
88
O
Months
-
If less than 1 day
Hours
Minutas
Chronic myocarditis
4 gr
Due to
Due to
Other conditiona.
Chronic Bronchity
5 yr
( include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
IMPORTANT
Physician Underline the cause to which death should be charged st .. tistically.
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? 200
...
If so. Spacity F. Salerno
( Signad).
(Address) 175 Pleasant St
. M. D.
Date 4/18/
19 46.
21
VOOCJEin CREMETORY
Everett .....
Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal.
DATE OF BURIAL
(City or Town)
2.3
19 .. 45.65.
22 NAME OF FUNERAL DIRECTOR Howard S Bynolds
ADDRESS
luminy, onero,
(Bignature of Scent of Board of Health or letter)
4/22/46
( Official Designation) (Date of Isoug of Permit)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
april
18
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY.
That I attended daosasad from
april
1928 to abril
18
1946
I last saw him alive on.
april 17
19 4 .... death is sald to
have occurred on the data stated above, at ...
5P
m.
Immediate cause of death
IMPORTANT --...
Usual
9 Occupation :
Recorder (Retired)
Industry
Aleppo Temple
10 or Business :
11 Social Security No.
021-12-0392
boston
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
( Siste or country)
Mass
13 NAME OF
FATHER
George Washington Morrison
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
Alton
(State or country)
New Hampshire
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Elizabeth Dunton
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
Damascota
(State or country)
Maine
17
.rs .
Farris
Relation, if any
Informant
( Address)
LEC CEbin ton Live!
...
inthron
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisffotory standard oartifioate of death was filed With me BEFORE the Mmial or transit bermit was Issued : Nuts - Quidelfin
100m-(g)-1-45-15510
Extracta Tum TY HWS UN DỤCK OF CONTITICATE. If deceased was a U. S. War Veteran, Q. L. Chap. 46. Section 10, requires physiolans to Insert a recital to that effect. PARENTS
2 FULL NAME
Walter Woodbury Morrison
( If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
122 Washington Ave.
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
years
months days.
In this community
4ars.
mon.
days
Recalved and Aled. APR 27 1946
19
( Registrar)
Major findings:
Of operations
Data of
Of autopsy
What test confirmed dlagnosla?
Duration
1946
Winthrop (City or Town) 122 Washington .A.v.e .. [ (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, Sti give its NAME instead of street and number)
No.
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 persou 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 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 hy the preceding section or hy 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 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 relicf 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 nine- teen hundred and seventeen. G. L. Chap. 46, Sec. 10.
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