Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1946, Part 27

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


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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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