Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1947, Part 45

Author: Winthrop (Mass.)
Publication date: 1947
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 544


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FATHER (City)


(State or Country)


Cape Breton


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Celina LeBlanc


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or Country)


Cape Breton


17 Amelia Thibeau ( Blatfe, if any )


Informant (Address, 295 Winthrop St


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or Margit permet was issued:


Walter (Sixnature of Agent board of Birther)


Healthe affect


(Date of Issue of Perm 7/2/47


(Official Designation)


19 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from


. 19


, to


, 19


I last saw h


alive on


, 19


have occurred on the date stated above. at


9:15 P.


m.


Immediate cause of death


natural causes


Probable coronary occlusion


Due to


Other conditions


(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)


none


Major findings:


Of operations


none


Date of


Of autopsy none


What test confirmed diagnosis?


clinical.


Duration IMPORTANT


1 hour


IMPORTANT


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


no


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


If so, specify


arthur C. Murray


, M. D.


(Signed)


(Addr


Minthof Board of Health Date 1 Jul


1947.


21


Winthrop


Winthrop


Place of Burial, Cremation or Remyval.


1943" Town


19


DATE OF BURIAL


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


Winthrop Masg


ADDRESS


Received and Filed


19


JUL 2 1947


(Registrar)


Sce instructions and extracts from the laws on back of certificate. 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-9-44-14955


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


(Month)


June


30, 1947


(Day)


(Ycar)


5 SINGLE (write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED Married


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


, death is said to


Clifford J. Thibeau 2 FULL NAME


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


Registered 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 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 belicf 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 hy 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 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 relief expedition and the Philippine insurrection, which shall, for said purposes, be deemed to have taken place between February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and nincty-eight and July fourth, nineteen hundred and two, and the Mexican horder 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 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 hoard, from the clerk of the town where the person died; and 110 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 tonib 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 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, hy 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 hy 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- eal 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 ahove 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 removal of such hody has been sooner obtained hereunder. If the death certificate contains a recital, as required


by section ten of chapter 1011y-six, tuat 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 physician certifying the cause of death shall thereafter furnish for registration any other neces- sary 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).


Medical examiners shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of only such persons as 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.


No undertaker or other person shall bury a human hody or the ashes thereof which have been brought into the commonwealth until he has re- ceived a permit so to do 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 hody 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 physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons to whom they have given hedside 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 forum of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose phy- sician is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.


(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths sup- posably 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 abortion, 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 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 im- portant, 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 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


R-302


Middlesex


(County) Tewksbury, Mass.


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)


Registered No.


110134


(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,


St.


give ita NAME instead of etreet and number)


2 FULL NAME


Bridget Ferrins


(If deceased ie a married, widowed or divorced woman, give aleo maiden name.)


11 Neptune Avenue


ST.


Winthrop


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


Length of stay: In hospital or institution ..


(Before death)


(Specify whether)


years


In this community


yrs.


moe.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX


4 COLOR OR RACE


White


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCEDMarried


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


FebHEfgBY


CERTIFY, 19


to


19


I last saw h.


er .... alive on


April


4


1947


deeth Is said to


have ocourred on the date stated above, a


12 :10P.


.m.


Immediate cause of death


Hypertensive Heart Disease


abt.


(over)


8


AGE ..


6.4. Years


Months.


.Days


If less than 1 day


Hours.


.. Minutes


Housewife


Industry 10 or Business :


11 Social Security Nc ...


None


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Ireland


13 NAME OF


FATHER


Patrick Malleigh


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


Not learned


(State or country)


Ireland


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Catherine Creighan


20 Was disease or Injury In any way related to occupation of deceased?


If so, speolfy


Lois B. Crowell


(Signed)


T. S. H. & I., Tewksbury


Date


4/7


19


(Address)


21 PLACE OF BURIAL,


St. Patrick's, Watertom


CREMATION OR REMOVAL


April. 10,


DATE OF BURIAL


19.


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


John F. O'Maley


ATTEST:


(Registrar of city or town where death occurred)


DATE FILED


April 7,


19


47


Other conditions.


Diabetes Mellitus


(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)


Major findings :


Of operations


Date of


Of autopsy


Clinical


What test confirmed diagnosis? x-ray EKG


Underline the cetee to which death should be charged eta- tistically.


PARENTS


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


Not learned


(State or country)


Ireland


17


Hospital Records


(


Relation, if any


Informant


(Address)


A TRUE COPY.


C.Wanting Houghton


Supt. ADDRESS


Inthrop, Mass.


Received and filed JUL 1 4 1947 .19


(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


50m. (b) .6.44-14607


1


PLACE OF DEATH


vi wie city or town in which the deceased resided. (See Chap. 16, Sec. 12, G. L.)


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


April


7


1947


Female


5a If married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of


Figamideperros yify in full)


(or) WIFE of


(Husband'e name in full).


6 Age of husband or wife If allve 69


years


7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here,


Due to.


Generalized and cerebral


Arteriosclerosis


Due to


Duration Years


Usuel


9 Occupation :


Not learned


Physician


MA


47


(If U. S.


War Veteran,


speolfy WAR)


(a) Residence. No.


(Usual place of abode)


(City or Town) Tewksbury State Hospital and Infirmary No.


1


months


18 day.


ATfas il jattended deceased from


A R-302


Essex


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


Danvers


(City or town making return)


Registered No.


135


Danvers State Hospital, Hathorne, Mass No.


(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,


give its NAME instead of atreet and number)


. Cora Holahan (Cora Lowe)


2 FULL NAME


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


(a) Residence. No.


81 Plummer Ave ...


Winthrop, Mass


(Usual place of abode)


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


Length of stay: In hospital or institution.


(Before death)


(Specify whether)


years LOmontha 28 days.


In this community


yrs.


mos.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


3 SEX


Female


4 COLOR OR RACE| 5 SINGLE


(write the word)


Married


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


19 | HEREBY CERTIFY.


July 18 19 46


to


June 16


1947


I last saw h


er


.alive on


June


16


19.4. .. , death is said to


have ooourred on the date stated above, at. 4:00 a. m.


6 Age of husband or wife If allve .Unknown


years


7 IF STILLBORN, enter that faot here.


8 79


AGE


Years.


.Months.


Days


If less than 1 day


Hours ..


.Minutes


Usual


Unable to work


9 Ocoupation :


industry 10 or Business :


11 Soolal Security No ....


None.


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


St. Louis


(State or country)


Missouri


13 NAME OF


FATHER


Stephen Lowe


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


St. Louis


(State or country)


Missouri


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Elizabeth Hart


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


St ....... Louis


(State or country)


Missouri


21 PLACE OF BURIAL,


Winthrop Cem. Winthro


CREMATION OR REMOVAL


DATE OF BURIAL


Junem


(Cemetery)


(City or Town)


19.


47


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


Howard .... S ..... Reynolds


ADDRESS


Winthro


JUL 1 4194FASS.


19


Received and filed


(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


50m. (b) .6.44-14607


icalled in another city or town at the time of death should be made forthwith and transmitted on Form R-808 to the clerk


of the city or town in which the deceased resided. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.)


1


PLACE OF DEATH


(County)


Danvers


CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


(City or Town)


A TRUE COPY.


ATTEST :


(Registrar of city of com where death occurred)


19


47


DATE FILED June 23


immediate oause of death


Arteriosclerotic heart


disease


10 yrs.


Due to.


Due to.


Other conditions.


(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)


Major findings :


Of operations


Date of


Physician 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 oooupation of deopased? If so, speolfy


(Signed)


Francis X. Sullivan


M. D.


(Address) Hathorne, Mass. Date 6/20 1947


17 informant ... (Address) Hathorne Dass.


Mary .... K ...... Mcihillips (


Relation, If any


18 DATE OF


DEATH


June


16


1947


White


5a If married, widowed, or divoroed


HUSBAND of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of


Anthony ...... Ho.la.han ...


(Husband's name in full)


That I attended deceased from


Duration


PARENTS


(If U. S.


War Veteran,


speolfy WAR)


1 R-302


Essex


(County)


Danvers


(City or Town)


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


CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, No. Danvers State Hospital, Hathorne, Masst


give its NAME instead of atreet and number)


2 FULL NAME


William M. Worcester


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


(a) Residence. No. 19 Center St., Winthrop, Mass. St.


(Usual place of ahode)


Length of stay: In hospital or Institution.


(Before death)


(Specify whether)


years


months


da y s.


In this community


yrs.


mos.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 SEX Male


4 COLOR OR RACE


White


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED Married


5a If married, widowed, or divorced Texas G. Marston


HUSBAND of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of


(Hushsnd's name in full)


6 Age of husband or wife If allve 70?


years


7 IF STILLBORN, enter that faot here.


AGE .. 8.8 ..... Years Months Days


If less than 1 day Hours Minutes


Usual


9 Ocoupation :


Unable to work


Industry 10 or Business :


11 Social Security No. More


Bangor


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Maine


13 NAME OF


FATHER


Daniel Worcester


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


(State or country)


Maine


15 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER Cannot be learned (Eastman ? )if so, speolfy.


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


Maine


17 Mary K. McPhillips ( Relation, if any


Informant


(Address)


Hathorne Mass.


A TRUE COPY.


ATTEST :


(Registrar of city or town where death occurred)


DATE FILED


June 23


19


47


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


18 DATE OF


DEATH


June


16


1947


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


19 | HEREBY CERTIFY,


June 2


That I attended deceased, from


allve on


I last saw h


im


June 16


19 47 death is said to


have occurred on the date stated above, at.


.. 1 .:. 3.0 ..... p.m.


Duration


Immedlate cause of death


Arterioscloroticheart


disease


20 yrs.


Due to.


Due to.


Other conditions


(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)


Major findings:


Of operations


Date of


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


What test confirmed diagnosis?


Clinical


20 Was disesse or Injury In any way related to oooupation of deopased ?.


(Signed).


Pasquale ..... Buoniconto


M. D.


(Address)


Hathorne, Mass. Date5/20 1947


21 PLACE OF BURIAL,


CREMATION OR REMOVAL


(Cemetery)


June 18


Oak Grove Cem.


Medford


DATE OF BURIAL


(City or Town)


19


47


22 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


Alfred B. Marsh


ADDRESS


Winthrop Mass.


JUL 141947


19


Received and filed


(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


.


. wwwturnt anvurer chy or town at the time of death should be made forthwith and transmitted on Form R-802 to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased resided. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.)


50m . (b) .6.44.14607


1


PLACE OF DEATH


Danvers


(City or town making return)


Registered No.


136


1


L


(If U. s.


War Veteran,


speolfy WAR)


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


14


1941


June 16


194/


to ...


Of autopsy


PARENTS


A


1


PLACE OF DEATH


Suffolk (County) Welkoop


(City or Town)


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


To be fled for berial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.


Registrar's No. 137


St. ยง (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, ( give its NAME instead of street and number) PHYSICIAN-IMPORTANT


2 FULL NAME


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


(a)


Residence. No.


28 Thornton St


St.


(Usual place of abode)


Length of stay: In hospital or Institution


(Before death)


(Specify whether)


years


months - days."


(If nonresident, give city of town and Statc)


In this community /4 yrs.


mes.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


3 SEX


male


4 COLOR OR RACE


5 SINGLE


(write the word)


Single


5a If married, widowed, er 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. years


7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


AGE


8


74 Years- Months


Days


If less than 1 day


Hours .....


Minutes


Usual


9 Occupation:


Clergyman


Industry


10 or Business:


St John The Evangelist


11 Social Security No.


12 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Doston


13 NAME OF


FATHER


nell 9. Brennan


14 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


(State or country)


Iceland


15 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Elever Bar


- Deland


17 battery Branna Relation, if any States


21


Holy Cross Taldu


Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal. (City or Town) 1947


DATE OF BURIAL


22 NAME OF


dises and & memachen


FUNERA


ADDRESS


72 Murky Hill St Chose,


19


(Registrar)


from the signs on mil ner


50m-(e)-3-43-11574


was fyled with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: I HEREBY CERTIFY thit a satisfactory/standard certificate of death Valter A. paleis


Signature of Agricol Board of Ilumina other Health Effects


1 7/7/47


(Official Designation)


18 DATE OF


DEATH


(Month)


1947


(Day)


(Year)


19 I HEREBY CERTIFY,


1947,


to.


19.


That I attended deceased from


I last saw h


alive on ...


Truly 5, 147


death is said to


have occurred on the date stated above, afonso


Immediate cause of death.


10:15


Duration IMPORTANT


Due to.


antonio pelasos


Due to.


Other conditions.


(Include pregnancy within 3 months of deathi)


Major findings:


Of operations


Date of


Of autopsy. What test confirmed diagnosis?


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? o If so, specify.


(Signed)


(Address) Y Washington 7-6-19


M. D. 47


16 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


Informant. (Address) 28 Therato St


(Date of Issue of /crmit)


Received and filed


JUL 9 1947


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


No.


28 Thornton St Wuthey Fax neil Paul Brennan


(Was deceased a


U. S. War Veteran,


if so specify WAR).


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


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 scen 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 deccased, 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 fomb 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 aforcsaid 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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