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(Address)
538 Shirley St Winthrop
A TRUE COPY.
ATTEST:
(Registrar of city or town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
Sept. 0 1948
.......... 19
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Vincent Rapino
ADDRESS
9 Chelsea St., Fast Boston
19
Reoolved and filed. NOV 24 1948
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
-
4
(City or Town)
19.48
DATE OF BURIAL
(Cemetery)
Setp.
10
Boston
20 Was disease or Injury In any way related to occupation of deceased ?.
If so, spoolfy
H.L. Masters
(Signed)
M. D.
(Address) 62 Rever St., RevDate 2/9 19 43
21 PLACE OF BURIAL,
CREMATION OR REMOVAL St. Michael
Date of
should be
charged sta- tietically.
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Italy
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Rosa Donate
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Italy
Of autopsy
What test confirmed diagnosis ?..
Clinical
Physician Underitne the cattso to which death
Other conditions
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
Major findings :
Of operations
...
of vesico vaginal fistula
4 das.
Due to.
Due to.
Duration
Immediate cause of death. Septicema following repair
18 DATE OF
DEATH
Sept. 7, 1948
Female white
Widowel
5a if married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
months
day 8.
In this community
34 yrB.
mos.
days.
years
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Chelsea
resided 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.)
PLACE OF DEATH
(City or town making return)
Registered No.
516 213
(If U. S.
War Veteran,
speolfy WAR)
no
have coourred on the data stated above,
7:00P
M R-302
1
Medford
(City or Town)
No. 558 Riverside Ave.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Medford
(City or town making return)
Registered No.
214
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
Samuel Bunting Murray
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No.
217 Lincoln
SŁ
Winthrop
(Usual place of ahode)
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In hospital or institution.
Nrusing
hope
months
7 days.
in this community
7 yrs.
mos.
days.
(Before death)
(Specify whether)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX male
4 COLOR OR RACE|
whi te
5 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
widowed
5a If married, widok'ss.L gerged Manwaring
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
6 Age of husband or wife If allve ysars
7 IF STILLBORN, snter that fact here.
8
AGE.
85 Years
9
Months.
.. 1.5 Days
If less than 1 day
.. Hours.
.Minutes
Usual
9 Ocoupatlon :
Hat cutter
Industry
10 or Business :
Retired
11 Soolai Security No ..
none
Norwalk
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Conn
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Unable to obtain
PARENTS
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Unable to obtain
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Unable to obtain
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Unable to obtain
17 George Everbeck
Informant ...
(Address)
211 Lincoln St. Winthrop
A TRUE COPY. ATTEST:
(Registrar of city or town where death ,occurred)
DATE FILED
Oct 13, 1948
19
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
October
9
1948
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY,
Oct
19 .. 46 .. , to ...... O.c.t
That I attended deceased from
9
19.48.
1 last saw h.
im
... alive on
Oct 9
19.4.8, death Is sald to
hava ooourred on the date stated above, at
2.50₽
m.
Duration
Immediate oause of death.
Bronchopneumonia
3dys
Dua to.
Acute respiratory infection 5dys
Due to.
Other conditions.
Generalized arterio-
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
sclerosis
Major findings :
Of operations.
Dats of.
Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.
Of autopsy
What test confirmed diagnosis?
clinical
20 Was diseass or Injury in any way related to oooupation of dsoeased ?.
If so, spsolfy. Weinsaft
(Signsd).
38-Shore. D
M. D.
(Address) winthrop
21 PLACE OF BURIAL,
CREMATION OR REMOVAL
Mt. Olivet, Brooklyn,
(Cemetery)
DATE OF BURIAL
Oct 13, 1948
19
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Howard S .Reynolds
ADDRESS
Winthrop., .... Ma.s.s.
Rscelvsd and filsd NOV 1 2 1948 19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
-
50m- (b) -6.44-14607
T
PLACE OF DEATH
Middlesex (County)
-
of the city or town in which the deceased resided. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.) resided in another city or town at the time of death should be made forthwith and transmitted on Form R-808 to the clerk Copies of returns of deaths recorded during the previous month which occurred in your city or town in case the deceased
4
yrs. Physician
Date.
10/10, 48
N. Y .(City or Town)
(If U. S.
War Veteran,
speolfy WAR)
M R-302
1
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF
Danvers
(City or town making return)
Registered No.
215
2 FULL NAME
Henry A. Marks
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(If U. S.
speolfy WAR)
(a) Residence. No.
125 Cliff Ave., Winthrop, Mass.
(Usual place of abode)
St
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay : In hospital or Institution
(Before death)
(Specify whether)
years
months
9
da y 8.
In this community
yrs.
moB.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 SEX Male
4 COLOR OR RACE
White
5 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
widowed
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
5a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of
1. Lena Wagner
(or) WIFE of
2 ........ Joyce ..... Steadman
(Husband'e name in full)
6 Age of husband or wife If allve years
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
8
85 Years.
AGE
11
.Months.
24 Days
If less than 1 day
Hours
Minutes
Usual
Boot maker (retired)
Industry 10 or Business:
11 Social Security No.
None
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
New York
13 NAME OF
FATHER
John Marks
PARENTS
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Germany
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Margaret Hawkes
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Germany
17 MaryKMcPhillips(
Relation, if any (Address) Hathorne, Mass.
A TRUE COPY.
ATTEST :
(Registrar of city or town where death occurred)
DATE FILED October 26 1948
18 DATE OF
DEATH
October 17
1948
48
i last saw h ..
im
... allve on.
Oct . 17
, 1948, death Is sald to
have occurred on the date stated above, at.
6:00 P ...... m.
Duration
Immedlate oause of death
Arteriosclerotic heart disease 1 yr --
Due to.
Generalized Arteriosclerosis
5 yrs --
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
Of autopsy Clinical
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to oooupation of deceased ?.
If so, speolfy
(Signed) Francis X. Sullivan
M. D.
(Address)
Hathorne, Mass. Date 10/220 48
21 PLACE OF BURIAL, Forrest Dale Cem. Malden
CREMATION OR REMOVAL.
(Cemetery)
Oct .20
19.
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL
Collin Dennis
ADDRESS
Malden, Mass
Received and filled NOV 10 1948
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
Copies of returns of deaths recorded during the previous month which occurred in your city or town in case the deceased
resided in another city 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
+
Essex (County) Dan.ve.r.s CERTIFICATE OF DEATH (City or Town) (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, Danvers State Hospital, Hathorne, Mass No. give ite NAME instead of etreet and number) - PLACE OF DEATH
19
HEREBY CERTIFY,
Oct.8
....
That I attended deceased frpme,
19 48 Oct. 17
19
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
9 Ocoupatlon :
charged sta- tistically.
no
M R-302
Essex
(County)
Dan.ver.s
(City or Town)
No.
Danvers State Hospital, Hathorne, mass
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Danvers
(City or town making return)
Registered No.
216
-
(If death occurred in a hospital or Institution,
give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
Johanna O'Shea
(Wall)
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
Winthrop, Mass.
(If U. s.
speolfy WAR)
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
17
In this community
yrs.
mos.
days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
October
21
1948
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deceased from
Jan. 4
19 ... 44.8 .. , to
Oct ....... 21
1948
I last saw h ............. alive on.
Duration
O.c.t ....... 21 ..
19.48 death Is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at6: 35 p.
.m.
Immediate oause of death.
Acute Coronary Thrombosis
1 day
Due to
General Arteriosclerosis
1 yr.
Due to
Other conditions.
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
Physician
Major findings:
Of operations
Date of
should be charged sta- tistically.
Of autopsy
Clinical
What test confirmed diagnosis?
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to oooupation of deceased?
If so, speolfy.
(Signed)Pasquale .... Buoniconto
M. D.
(Address) Hathorne, Wass.
Dat
10/220 48
21 PLACE OF BURIAWinthrop Cem. , winthrop
Mass
CREMATION OR REMOVAL.
(Cemetery)
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
October ..... 25
19
48
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL
John F . O'Maley
ADDRESS
Winthrop., .... Mass.
Received and flied
NOV 101948
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
50m-(b)-6-44-14607
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
Length of stay : In hospital or Institution.
(Before death)
(Specify whether)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
4 COLOR OR RACE
White
Female
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
5a If married, widowed, or divoroed
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
Daniel Oisheq)
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that faot here.
8
78
25
AGE
Years
3
Months
Days
Usuai
9 Ocoupation :
Unable to work
Industry
10 or Business :
11 Social Security No ...
None
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
Carthage.
13 NAME OF
William Wall
FATHER
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Ireland
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Marie Ryan
PARENTS
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Ireland
of the city or town in which the deceased resided. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.)
resided in another city or town at the time of death should be made forthwith and transmitted on Form R-802 to the clerk
Copies of returns of deaths recorded during the previous month which occurred in your city of town in case the deceased
(State or country)
New York
5 SINGLE
(write the word)
Widowed
6 Age of husband or wife if allve years
If less than 1 day
Hours ...
Minutes
17 informant Mary K. McPhillips Relation, if any
(Address)
Hathorne, Mass
A TRUE COPY.
ATTEST :
(Registrar of city or town where death occurred)
DATE FILED Oct. 26
19 48
9
months
days.
years
PLACE OF DEATH
1
Underline the cause to which death
+
M R-302
NORFOLK (County)
1
BROOKLINE
(City or Town)
No. Allerton ... Hospital ......
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
BROOKLINE (City or town making return)
Registered No.
765217
§ gif death o give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
Louise A. Rowe
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(If U. S.
War Veteran,
apeolfy WAR)
(a) Residence. No.
110 Loring Road
Winthrop,
Massachusetts
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In hospital or Institution ....
.Hospital
(Before death)
(Specify whether)
years
months
9 days.
In this community
34 yrs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
October
29
1948
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
5a If married, widowed, or divoroed HUSBAND of (Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
Charles ... Rowe
(Husband's name in full)
6 Age of husband or wife If allve
years
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that faot here.
8 AGE.7.8 .. Years. 3. .Months .. ]Q ..... Days
If less than 1 day
.Hours.
.. Minutes
Usual
9 Occupation :
Housewife
Industry
10 or Business :
Om home
11 Soolal Security No .....
none
12 BIRTHPLACE (City) ... Newcastle
(State or country)
Maine
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Addison G. Austin
PARENTS
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Maine
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Mary Tague
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Maine
Newcastle
17 Richard Rowe
Relation, if any .son
(Address) 110 Loring Rd., Winthrop, Mass.
A TRUE COPY.
ATTEST:
art
.......
(Registrar of city of town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
November 2
19 48
22 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Howard .S ..... Reynolds
ADDRESS
Winthrop. ... Massachusetts
Reoelved and filed.
NOV + 3 1948
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
Winthrop, Mass.
(City of Town)
19.4.8.
21 PLACE OF BURIAL,
CREMATION OR REMOVAL Winthrop
(Cemetery)
Date of.
Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.
Of autopsy
What test confirmed dlagnosis ?
Clinical
20 Was disease or injury in any way related to oooupation of deceased ?....... no
If so, speolfy
Henry Baker
(Signed)
M. D.
(Address)
483 Beacon St. Bostomate 10-2919 48
2 .... days
Due to.
Bronchopneumonia
Due to.
CerebralThrombosis
Generalized Arterio Sclerosis
10 .... days
years
Other conditions
(Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
Physician
Major findings :
Of operations
19 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That 1 attended deceased from October 21 , 19 18, toOctober 29 1948 I last saw h .. er ....... allve on ... October .... 2.9 ....... , 19.1+8, death Is sald to have ooourred on the date stated above, at ... 6 .... p .. Duration .m.
Immedlate oause of death
3 SEX Female
4 COLOR OR RACE|
White
5 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Wido wed
50m-(b)-6.44-14607
PLACE OF DEATH
of the city or town in which the deceased resided. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.) resided in another city or town at the time of death should be made forthwith and transmitted on Form R-302 to the clerk Copies of returns of deaths recorded during the previous month which occurred in your city or town in case the deceased
Informant
DATE OF BURIAL
.. November 1
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
St.
(Usual place of abode)
01
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk. (County) Bootin 12/8/48 Minthaup (City or Town) Winthrop Community Sloup No. .
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City or town making return)
Registrar's Number
218
St.
(If death occurred in a hospital or institution
{ give its NAME instead of street and number)
PHYSICIAN-IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
(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
years
months
days·
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
4 COLOR OR RACE
White
5 SINGLE (write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Single
5a If married. widowed, or divorced HUSBAND OF
(or) WIFE OF
(Husband's name in full)
6 Age of husband or wife if alive years
7 IF STILLBORN. enter that fact here.
Stilllegen
8 AGE Years
Months Days
If less than 1 day
Hours
Minutes
Usual ·9 Occupation: "
11 Social Security No ..
12 BIRTHPLACE (City) Manthrop mais (State or country)
13 NAME OF
FATHER
Jaseph Boguanno
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City) .
(State or country)
quais
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
TE Therecalliano
16 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country)
Carl Baston
Gmail.
17 Informant (Address) 6899 Riesco
Graph Bagnanny fare .
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial of transit permit was issued: Walter I. Makers (Signature of Agent of Board of Health of other) Meatile Officer 11/2/48 / (Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH.
nor.
(Month)
1-1948 (Day)
(Year)
19 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
.19
.. , to
., 19
...
I last saw h
alive on
19
., death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
M.
Immediate cause of death Stillborn
Due to.
Due to
Other conditions (Include pregnancy within 3 months of death)
Major findings: Of operations
Date of .
Of autopsy
rikiant What test confirmed diagnosis?
20 Was disease or mury An any way related to occupation of deceased?
If so. specify
(Signed) 905 Have w EBene
MD
(Address)
Date 11/6/1948
21 Woodlawn Place of Burial, Cremation 2 Removal.
Energy.
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
22 NAME OF FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Scar
ADDRESS 39Orleans
NOV 4
1948
Received and filed
19
(Registrar)
A TRUE COPY ATTEST:
100m-(r)-3-46-18278
3 SEX male PARENTS If deceased was a U. S. War Veteran, C. L., Chap. 48, Sec. 10, requires physicians to insert a recital to that effect. - on back of certificate. it may be properly classined. Exact statement of ULCUration is very important. os tractions aire caliente ! ! !! we Industry 10 or Business:
2 FULL NAME
Baby (Boy)
Bognanna
(If deceased is y married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No. USTBeinglow St. C./Borsod (Usual place of abode)
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
Duration
Important
Important
Physician Underline the cause to which death should be charged sta- tistically.
1
19 468
Cast Barton
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 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, 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 fourteen, shall, if the deceased, to the best of his knowledge and belief, served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been engaged, insert in the certificate a recital to that effect, specifying the war, and shall also certify in such certificate both the primary and the secondary or immediate cause of death as nearly as he can state the same. For neglect to comply with any provision of this section, such physician or officer shall forfeit ten dollars. For the purposes of this section and of sections forty-five, forty-six and forty-seven of said chapter one hundred and fourteen, the word '; war" 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 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 reinove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he has received a permit from the board of health, or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or other person shall exhume a human body and remove it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomb other than the receiving tomb to another in the same cemetery, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the town where the body is buried. No such permit shall be issued until there shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satisfactory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an original inter- mment, 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 physician who is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or by the selectmien for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical examiner shall make such certificate. If such a perinit 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 perinit 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 by section ten
of chapter forty-six, that the deceased served in the army. navy or marine corps of the I'nited States in any war in which it has been engaged, such recital shnH 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 sofgiven and the physician certifying 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. I ... (Tercentenary Edition).
Medical examiners shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of only such persons as are supposed to have died hy violence. If u 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 body or the ashes thereof which have been brought 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 physicians will certify tosuch 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 by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose physician is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.
(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths supposahly due to injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or indirectly by traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and hy the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, but also deaths front 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 imeans 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 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, 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.
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