Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1946, Part 68

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


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Statement of Occupation .- Precise statement of occupation is very im- portant, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known. Make some entry in this section for every person aged 10 years or over. If the occupation had been given up or changed on account of the disease causing death, report the usual occupation prior to illness. If the deceased had retired from business, report the usual occupation prior to retirement. Children not gainfully employed may 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, how- ever, 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


DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE


DATE OF DISCHARGE RANK, RATING


ORGANIZATION AND OUTFIT


SERVICE NUMBER


:)2


1


PLACE OF DEATH


Middlesex


(County)


Cambridge (City or Town) Holy Ghost Hospital


The Commontoralth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


Cambridge


(City or town making return)


Registered No.


1241.87


(If death occurred in a hospital or Institution, St.


give its NAME instead of street and number)


2 FULL NAME


James Brady


(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)


(a) Residence. No. ........ 25 ..... C.l.j ... f.f ...... ).v.e.


(Usual place of abode)


St.


Winthrop


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


Length of stay : In hospital or Institution ...


Hosp


1


years


months


days.


In this community


yrs.


mos.


days.


(Before death)


(Specify whether)


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


SEX Male


4 COLOR OR RACE|


white


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED Widowed


5. If married, widowed, or divorced Sarah Mol,uh lin HUSBAND of


~(or) WIFE of


(Husband's name in full}


6 Age of husband or wife If allve years


7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


AGE ... 8.5 .... Years ... Months. .......... Days


If less than 1 day


Hours.


.....


.Minutes


Usual


9 Oooupation :


retired


Industry 10 or Business :


11 Social Security No.


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Mass


13 NAME OF


FATHER


James Brady


PARENTS


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


(State or country)


Ireland


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Unable to learn


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


17 Sarah E Hosemer


Relation, if any


Informant


(Address)


234 Woodside Ave. Winthrop


A TRUE COPY.


ATTEST :


Sept 10, 1946


(Registrar of city op town where death occurred)


DATE FILED


frederick H. Burke 19


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


Sept 8, 1946


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


19 | HEREBY CERTIFY,


That I attended deosased from


19.


to


19


I last saw h


allve on.


19


, death Is sald to


have ocourred on the date stated above, at ............ ].4 ............. m.


Duration


Immediate cause of death.


PulmonaryEdema


Due to.


Arterio Sclerotic ht disease


6 yr S


Due to.


Gen Arterio sclerosis


Other conditions


(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)


Physician


Major findings :


Of operations


Date of


Of autopsy


What test confirmed dlagnosis ?.


.no


20 Was disease or Injury In any way related to oooupation of deceased?, If so, speolfy John J Tarkin


(Signed)


M. D.


(Address)


215 Perkin .... St. DateSept ......... 4.6


21 PLACE OF BURIAL,


Holy Cross Cem. Malden


CREMATION OR REMOVAL


DATE OF BURIAL


Sept


(Cemetery) 1946


(City or Town) 19.


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


T. J. DeNei 11


ADDRESS


Revere


Received and filed. OCT 19 1946


19


+


(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.


as above


50m-(b)-6-44-14607


No.


(If U. S.


War Veteran,


spoolfy WAR)


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


B. M. R. I ..


Boston


₹102


Suffolk


(County)


Boston


(City or Town)


No.


Boston City Hospital


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


Boston


(City or town making return)


8516 189


St.


-


(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,


give its NAME instead of street and number)


(If U. S.


War Veteran,


specify WAR)


(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)


229 Washington


(a) Residenoe. No.


(Usual place of abode)


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


M


4 COLOR OR RACE|


W


5 SINGLE


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


(write the word)


Widowed


5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of


Mary Bowen


(or) WIFE of


(Husband's name in full)


6 Age of husband or wife If allve years


7 IF STILLBORN, snter that fact here.


65


8


AGE


Years


Months.


Days


If less than 1 day Hours. Minutes


Usual


9 Ocoupatlon :


Machinist


Industry


U.S.Gov't.


10 or Business :


11 Social Security No ...


021-18-6163


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Boston Mass.


13 NAME OF


FATHER


William Egan


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


(State or country)


Boston Mass.


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Mary Brown


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


Scotland


17 Informant. (Address)


William. Egan


Relation, if Brother


A TRUE COPY.


marco


ATTEST:


(Registrar of city or town where death occurred)-


Oct. 7


19 46


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


(Month)


Oct. 2/46


(Day)


(Year)


19


HEREBY CERTIFY,


That batersady deceased from


19


I last saw h ..


ww alive on


19


death Is sald to


have occurred on the date stated above, at


11 PM


m.


Duration


Immediate oause of death. Hemopericardium with cardiac


tamponade


Hrs


Hrs


Due to.


Other conditions.


(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)


Physician


Major findings :


Of operations


Date of


should be


Of autopsy


What test confirmed diagnosis ?. autopsy


20 Was disease or Injury in any way related to ocoupation of deceased ?


If so, speolfy.


MW O'Connell


(Signed)


(Address)


Boston City Hospt


Date


10-3 19


M.


."


21 PLACE OF BURIAL, Calvary Boston Mass. CREMATION OR REMOVAL (Cemetery )


DATE OF BURIAL


Oct 6/46


(City or Town)


19


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


J ... F .... O .!. Malev.


ADDRESS


Winthrop Mass


Reosivsd and filed 19


OCT 26 1945


(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


of the city of town in Which the deceased remued. (See Vmap. 10, bcc 12, (. L.) PARENTS


50m-(b)-6-44-14607


DATE FILED


PLACE OF DEATH -


1


Registered No.


2 FULL NAME


James


Egan


St.


Winthrop


ass.


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


30


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


Oct.2/46


19


to


Due to.


Dissecting aneurys


Underline the cause to


which death


charged sta- tistically.


)3-A Sullock (County) Winthrop 1 (City or Town) . 6 Leves Que


Ore Gonititamitealth of zHassachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.


Registered No.


1.90


§ (If death occurred in a hospital or Institution, St. [ give its NAME instead of street and number) 1


2 FULL NAME


(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)


6 Leurs are Northrop


St.


(a) Residenoe. No.


(Usual place of abode)


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


Length of stay: In hospital or institution.


( Before death )


(Specify whether)


years


months


days.


In this community


yrs.


mos.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX


4 COLOR OR RACE|


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


Single


18 DATE OF


DEATH


October -2-1946


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


5a If marrled, 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


7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


8


73


Years


Months


Days


If less than 1 day


Hours .......


Minutes


Usual


9 Occupation :


Typest


Industry


10 or Business :


Business Service


11 Social Security No ..


011-14-5709


Boston


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Mass.


13 NAME OF


FATHER


William A Morris


PARENTS


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


Boston


(State or country)


Mass.


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Catherine Keefe


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


Boston


(State or country)


Mass.


17


Records


Relation, if any


( Address)


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial of transit permit was Issued: Walter it goes (Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)


health & Hel (Official Designation)/ (Date of Issue of Permit)


10/28/46


20 Accident, suicide, or homicide (specify).


accidental


Date of occurrence.


Oct -2-


1946


Where did


Winthrop


Injury occur ?


City or town and State)


Did injury ocour in or about home, on farm, In industrial place, or in publio


place ?


(Specify type of place)


Mannerfound dead on her dining room


Injury


Nature of


Injury


While at work?


Was there an autopsy?


21 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?


If so, specify


(Signed)


M. D.


( Address)


19.46


22


Forrest Falls


Boston


Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal.


(City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL.


October 28


19.46


23 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


ADDRESS


Tomatos meus.


Received and filed


O.C.T.2.8.1946


19


( Registrar)


extracts from the laws relative to the return of certificates of death. 11 ucucaseu was a u. J. war veteran, u. L. Cnap. 40, Section 1U, requires physicians to insert a recital to that ettect.


PLACE OF DEATH


No . Elizabeth


morris


PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT


(Was deceased a


U. S. War Veteran,


If so specify WAR)


Female


White


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


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, state fully.)


years


50m (g)-1-41-4667


Informant


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 undertsker or other suthorized person or of any meniber of the family of the deceased, furnish for registration a standard certificate of desth, 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 required 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, Cbap. 46, Sec. 9.


A physician or officer furnishing s 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 snd 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 ss nearly as he can state the same. For neglect to comply with sny 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 snd fourteen, the word "wsr" shall include the China relief ex- pedition 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, snd the Mexi- can border service of nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen. G. L. Chap. 46, Sec. 10.


No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a human body in a town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he has received a permit from the board of health, or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from tbe clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertsker or other person shall exhume a human body and remove it from s 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, & satisfactory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be secompanied, in case of sn originsl interment, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinsfter 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, tbe medical examiner shall make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of a human body, not previously interred, from one town to an- other within the commonwealth cannot be obtained esrly enough for the purpose, the certificate of death made as above provided and in the pos- session of the undertaker desiring to make such removal shall constitute a permit for such removal; provided, thst such body shall be returned to the town from which it was removed within thirty-six bours after such re- moval, 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 srmy, 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 sgent, upon receipt of such statement and certificste, shall forthwith countersign it and transmit it to the clerk of the town for regis- trstion. The person to whom the permit is so given and the physician cer- tifying 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 csuse of the death, which the clerk or registrar may re- quire .- Chap. 114, Sec. 45, G. L., (Tercentenary Edition).


No undertsker or other person shall bury s human body or the ashes thereof which have been brought into the commonwealth until he has re- ceived s permit so to do from the board of health or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such bosrd, from the clerk of the town where the body is to be buried or the funeral is to be held, or from a per- son sppointed to have the care of the cemetery or burial ground in which the interment is made .. .. Chap. 114, Sec. 46, G. L., (Tercentenary Edi- tion).


Medical examiners shsll make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of only such persons ss are supposed to have died by violence. 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 lies and take charge of the same ;...- General Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 6.


... He shall in all cases certify to the town clerk or registrar in the place where the decessed dicd his name and residence, if known; otherwise a description as full as may be, with the cause and manner of death .- General Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 7.


... The medical examiner certifies the cause and manner of death to the best of his knowledge and belief.


RULES OF PRACTICE


The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observance of the following rules of practice :


(1) Attending physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons to whom they have given 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 disabled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose physi- cian is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.


(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all desths sup- posably due to Injury. These include not only destbs caused directly or in- directly by trsumatism (including resulting septicemia), and by 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 relsted to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized dlsease, and those of persons found dead.


STATEMENT OF CAUSE OF DEATII


Medical Examiners in certifying to a death will state the cause and manner thereof, and will specify: (1) Under cause, the nature of an injury and of its consequences; and (2) under manner, the mode of its production together with the circumstances when these are known. For example: "Com- pound fracture of the femur with ensuing septicemia (gas bacillus) caused by a steam railway accident." "Pistol sbot wound of the chest with asso- ciated hemorrhage, homicidal." "Asphyxiation by suspension, suicidal." "Syncope while under the influence of etber administered as a surgical anaesthetic." "Fracture of the skull with associated internal injury sus- tained under circumstances unknown."


If disease or injury was related to occupation, specify. If investigation shows the death to have been due to disease, specify : (1) Under cause its known or presumable nature; and (2) under manner, indicate the circum- stances leading to medico-legal inquiry. For example: "Hemorrhage spon- taneous of the brsin (bssal ganglia) (found desd in bed)." "Heart discase, presumably coronary sclerosis. (Sudden death.)"


DESCRIPTION (for unknown person)


NOTICE TO UNDERTAKERS: No embalming fluid, or any substitute therefor, shall be injected into the body of any person supposed to have met his death by violence, until a permit, signed by the Medical Examiner, has first been obtained .- General Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 14.


THIS CERTIFICATE CONSTITUTES SUCH PERMIT


.01 A Suffolk County y Winthink 1


Boat Motifi


119.12/46


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.


191


§ (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, { give its NAME instead of street and number)


2 FULL NAME Baby Boy thomas


( If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced, woman, give also maiden name. )


-


(a) Residenca. No.


80 Entau St


St.


6 Bratre musa


(If nonresident, give elty or town and State)


Length of stay: In hospital or Institution


( Before death)


(Specify whether)


years


months


/


days.


In this community


yrs.


mon.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX


Male White


4 COLOR OR RACEI


5 SINGLE


( write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


5a If married, widowed, or divoroed


HUSBAND of


(Give maiden name of wife In full)


(or) WIFE of


( Husband's name in tull)


6 Age of husband or wife if alive


years


7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact hera.


8 AGE Years Months 1 ..... Days


If less than 1 day


Hours.


Minutes


Usual


9 Occupation :


Industry


10 or Business :


11 Social Security No. Mandhuske


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


( Siate or country)


masa


13 NAME OF


FATHER


Joseph N. Thomas


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER/(Clty)


(State or country)


mass


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Beatrice Leundry


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


( State or country)


mass


17


( Address ) For Entan It


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was fled with one' BEFORE the burial or tranalt permit was Issued : Walter A. Walls


(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other) 10/7/46


(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of/Permit)


18 DATE OF


DEATH


Octoba


2


( Month)


(Day)


(Year)


19 | HEREBY CERTIFY.


That I attended deosasad from


Oct1


1946, to


Oct 2


19


46


I last saw him


alive on


0 cp 2, 1946, death Is said to


have occurred on the date stated above, at


7pm


.m.


Duration


Immediate cause of death Prematurely


Due to


Due to


Other conditions.


( Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)


Major findIngs:


Of operations


Date of


Of autopsy


What test confirmed diagnosis?


20 Was disease or injury in any way related to oooupation of deosasad ? If so, spsoify.


M. D.


(Signed).


(Address) 186 Panceta STE 3


Date 10-5 1946


Bata


21


If muchacha


(City or Town)


Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal.


DATE OF BURIAL


art


87


1946


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


ADDRESS


Thedenk


manach


Health Office


Recaived and Alad


eet -8 -1945


19


( Registrar)


100m. (g)-1-45-15510


If deceased was a U. S. War Veteran, G. L. Chap. 46, Section 10, requires physicians to insert a recital to that effect. PARENTS


PLACE OF DEATH


Nicht Community Hospital se, No.


PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT


(Was deceased a


U. S. War Veteran,


if so specify WAR).


(Usual place of abode)


Hospital


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


1946


IMPORTANT


IMPORTANT


Physician


Underline the cause to which death should be charged st .. tistically.


East Boston


East Both


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 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, See. 9.


A physician or officer furnishing a certificate of death as required by 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 helief, served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has heeu 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 hury or otherwise dispose of a human hody 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 hoard of health or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the town where the body is huried. No such permit shall be issued until there shall have been delivered to such hoard, 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 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 be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a physi- cian who is a member of the hoard of health, or employed hy it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate re- quired of the attending physician. If death is caused hy violence, the medi- cal examiner shall make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of a human hody, 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 auch 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 hody has been sooner ohtained herennder. If the death certificate contains a recital, as required




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