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Informant
(Address)
Roxbury, Mass.
[(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
(Was deceased a U. S. War Veteran, if so specify WAR) WWI
(or) WIFE of.
(Husband's name in full)
F
DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE 5-27-18 DATE OF DISCHARGE 4-3-19 Hon RANK, RATING Pvt. ORGANIZATION AND OUTFIT 8th Co. 2nd Bn 151st Depot Brigad
SERVICE NUMBER 3191375
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk (County)
Mass
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.
93
No. Winthrop Convalescing Home Essie Mae (Parker) Kinnear (If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
j(If death occurred in a hospital or institution.
St. } give its NAME instead of street and number)
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT (Was deceased a U. S. War Veteran, if so specify WAR) - East Boston, Mass.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death .. years
4
months days In place of residence / O .years months .. days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
9 COLOR OR RACE
(write the word)
Female
White
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCEMarried
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
George
Edmund Kinnear
(Husband's name in full)
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
75
12
AGE
Years
5
Months
2I
Days
If under 24 hours
Hours
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation :
Housewife
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry or Business:
15 Social Security No.
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
Shelburne
(State or country) Nova Scotia
17 NAME OF FATHER William Parker
PARENTS
19 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER Sophia Smith
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? If so, specify A1. Schwartz M. D. (Signed) 20 BIRTHPLACE OF 19 Prisecato Ir Epul Date 6/1 50 MOTHER (City) unable to obtain
Woodlawn Cemetery EverettMass 6
Place of Burial or Cremation (City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL June 12 150
7 NAME OF FUNERAL DIRECTOR. Victoria A. Reynolds
ADDRESS 180 Winthrop St. Winthrop
Received and filed. 19
JUN 1 4 1950
(Registrar)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 DATE OF
DEATH
June
(Month)
9
1950
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deceased from
april 1.
1950
to
June 9
I last saw her
.. alive on
June 9
death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
10300 m.
INTERVAL BE-
DISEASE OR CONDITION
DIRECTLY LEAD
TO DEATH (a)
Cicuta Pulmonaz Elena
TWEEN ONSET AND DEATH 1 day
ANTE
Due To
Chronic Myocarditis
CEDENT (b)
CAUSES
Due To Chronic Invaliquant hypertrusion malignant
1 yr
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
1 yr
Major findings: Of operations ..
Date of operation.
Was autopsy performed?
What test confirmed diagnosis?
1.
18 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) Unable to obtain (State or country) Nova Scotia
(State or country) Nova Scotia
21 Informant Mrs. Pauline Baker
(Addr 55 Edghill Rd Winthrop, Mass
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial pr transit permit was issued:
Walter - Kalles. (Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
Thealth (Official Designation) (Date of Issue of/Permit)
ature Affecte 6/12/50
TRUCTIONS FOR L CERTIFICATE
n giving OF DEATH not enter e than one e for each , (b) and (c)
's does not mean e of dying, such failure, asthenia. cans the disease, lications which cath.
bid conditions. iving rise to the use (a) stating derlying cause
ditions contrib- the death but not o the disease or causing death.
/50M (8)-12-49-900722
Boston 7/5/50
M R-301A 1 Winthrop (City or Town)
2 FULL NAME ..
23I Princeton
St.
Registered No.
(a) Residence. No. (Usual place of abode)
(Day)
1950
1gr
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 ane, 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 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, specifying the war, and shall also certify in such certificate both the primary and the secondary or imme- diate 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, Scc. 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 cxhume 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 centetery, 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- ment, 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 selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused hy violence, 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 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 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 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 registra- tion. The person to whom the permit is so given and the physician certifying the cause of death shall thercafter furnish for registration any other necessary 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. - Chap. 114, Sce. 45. G. L., (Tercentenary Edition).
Medical examiners shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of persons as are supposed to have died by violence, or by the action of chemical, thermal or electrical agents or following abortion, or from diseases resulting from injury or infection relating to occupation, or suddenly when not disabled by recognizable disease, or when any person is found dead. - General Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 6., as amended by Chap. 632, Sec. 4, Acts of 1945.
No undertaker or other persons 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 follow- ing 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 physicians will certify to such deathsonly 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 supposably due to injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or indirectly by 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 .- Physicians: see explanatory instructions on face side of standard certificate of death.
Statement of Occupation .- Precise statement of occupation is very import- ant, 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 occupa- tion had been given up or changed, or if the deceased had retired from business, report the kind of work dore during most of working life even if retired. 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
DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE
DATE OF DISCHARGE RANK, RATING ORGANIZATION AND OUTFIT SERVICE NUMBER
X
PLACE OF DEATH
SUFFOLK (County)
BOSTON. (City or Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF
BOSTON
(City or town making return
Registered No.
5005
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Massachusetts General Hospital
[ (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. [ give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
Thomas Wood
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
9 Johnson Avenue
Winthrop, Mass.
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death.
.. years ..
months.
3
days. In place of residence.
2.3.years
months.
.days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
Malel
White
9 COLOR OR RACE
10 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED Married
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deceased from
June 7
19.5.0
to
June
.9
15.0
I last saw h.
.im .. alive on.
June ..... 9 19 ....... 5death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
9:35 Am.
INTERVAL BE- TWEEN ONSET AND DEATH
DISEASE OR CONDITION
DIRECTLY LEADING
TO DEATH (a)
Pulmonary ..... embolism 2 wks2
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
AGE
45
Years
7
Months.
10
Days
If under 24 hours
Hours
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation:
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business:
Industrial lighting
15 Social Security No.
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Lynn, Mas s.
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Henry L. Wood
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Worcester, Mass.
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Nettie L. Gardiner
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
Herkimer., ..... N. Y ...
(State or country)
21
Informant
WIFE
(Address)
A TRUE COPY
ATTEST:
(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)
Received and filed
JUN 1 9 1550
.19.
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
PARENTS
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? If so, specify
(Signed).
MASS. GEN. HOSP . Date
C. I
Clay
M. D.
6-9-60
6
Spring ..... St ........ Cem.
Place of Burial or Cremation
June 12, 1950
19
Essex (City of
25m-(b)-11-49-900,475
No.
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
3 DATE OF
June 9, 1950
DEATH
CEDENT (b)
Due To
(c)
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
Major findings:
Of operations.
None
(Address)
DATE OF BURIAL.
Copies of returns of deaths which occurred in your city or town in case the deceased resided in another city or town at the time
after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.)
of death should be transmitted on Form R-302 to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased resided as soon as possible
CAUSES
heart disease
ANTE
Arteriosclerotic
9 yrs
coronary occlusions
old
Date of operation
.Was autopsy performed ?.
yes
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
Autopsy
Purchasing Agent, (ret)
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
Alice
.Haskell
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
M R-302 1
WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK - THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
H ....... L ....... Richardson
ADDRESS
Lynn
DATE FILED
June 12 1950
19
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran.
if so specify WAR)
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
M R-302 1
Copies of returns of deaths which occurred in your city or town in case the deceased resided in another city or town at the time WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK - THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD
25m-(b)-11-49-900,475
No.
2 FULL NAME
(Usual place of abode)
Length of stay: In place of death
.years.
3 DATE OF
DEATH
DISEASE OR CONDITION
DIRECTLY LEADING
ANTE
CEDENT (b)
(c)
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
Date of operation
6-6-50
(Signed).
(Address) P. B. Brigham
6
DATE OF BURIAL.
after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12. G. L.)
of death should be transmitted on Form R-302 to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased resided as soon as possible
CAUSES
of stomach
June
11, 1950
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
That I attended
deceased
from
19
50
I last saw him
alive on
June 11 19
Seth is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
12:40P
m.
INTERVAL BE-
TWEEN ONSET AND DEATH
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
AGE
Years
66
11
Months.
12 Days
If under 24 hours
Hours.
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation:
Plumber
14 Industry
or Business
P.I. Ruby Plumbing Co.
15 Social Security No.
012-07-7861
16 BIRTHPLACE (CityBoston(SUFFOLK) Mass. (State or country)
17 NAME OF
FATHER
John Snyder
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City) ...
NovaScotia, ..... Canada
(State or country)
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Mary Fraser
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
Nova Scotia
Winthrop ..... Cemetery.
Winthrop
(State or country)
Canada
Place of Burial or Cremation
June zo1930
19
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
A. B. Marsh
ADDRESS
174 Winthrop St.
Received and filed
JUIN 26 1950
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts 0
EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS !! COPY OF
BOSTON
(City or town making return)
Registered No.
5151.96
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City or Town) Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. A John 'Snyder
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No.
953 Shirley
St. .
Winthrop, Mass.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
35
months.
31
.days. In place of residence
.years
months.
.days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
Male
White
9 COLOR OR RACE
10 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
DIVORCED Married
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
May
11
19 .. 50
to
June
11
Gastro intestinal
TO DEATH (a)
hemorrhage
3 mos
Due To
Ulcertative lesion
Due To
Abdominal ..... tumor
with metastases
mos
Major findings:
Of operations.
Abdominal exploration
Was autopsy performed?
6-11-5
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
Autopsy
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
If so, specify
N. A. Wilhelm
M. D.
PARENTS
21
Informant
(Address)
John Snyder, son
A TRUE COPY
ATTEST:
(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
June 15,1950
19
-
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
1
PLACE OF DEATH
SUFFOLK (County)
BOSTON
jof death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. [ give its NAME instead of street and number)
¿Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
Mary Gibbons
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
mos
Date 6-11-500
RM R-301A 1
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk (County)
Winthrop (City or Town) 200 Lincoln St. No.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.
Registered No.
9.7
J (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, . St. [ give its NAME instead of street and number)
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
200 Lincoln St
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death
years
months
days. In place of residence
1
years ..
months
days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 DATE OF
DEATH
June 13 1950
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deceased from
Jan.
50
to ..
June 9.
19
50
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
74.
AGE
4years
Months
Days
If under 24 hours
Hours . Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation:
Retired Compositor
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business:
Printing
15 Social Security No. .
023-07-7642
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Massachusetts
OTHER
Arteriosclerosis with
CONDITIONS Coronary occlusion -
1 hour
Major findings:
Of operations.
Cystectomy-
Date of operation aber. 1919.
.Was autopsy performed?
What test confirmed diagnosis?
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?. no.
If so, specify .....
(Signed) walter P. Ker
(Address) 262 Beacon ST, Date 6/18
M. D.
1950.
6 New Calvary Place of Burial or Cremation
Boston (City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
June 06, 1950
chut maly
ADDRESS
Winthrop Massachusetts
.. 19
JUN 14 1950
(Registrar)
MaTě
9
white
QR RACE
10 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARREOwed
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
Annie McDonough
I last saw hewn alive on
.9
19 50 death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
8
30 p.
m.
INTERVAL BE-
TWEEN ONSET
AND DEATH
7g.
DISEASE OR CONDITION
DIRECTLY LEADING
TO DEATH (a)
Can of Bladder
ANTE Due To CEDENT (b) CAUSES
Due To (c)
PARENTS
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Ireland
19 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER Mary Sullivan
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Ireland
21 John D. Ryan
Informant
(Address)
200 Lincoln St Winthrop
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: Walter G. Baker (Signature of Agent of Board 'DHealth or other) Health office 6/14/50 (Official Designation)/ (Date of Issue of Permit)
STRUCTIONS FOR AL CERTIFICATE
In giving SE OF DEATH › not enter ire than one ise for each :), (b) and (c)
is does not mean de of dying, such t failure, asthenia, means the disease, plications which death.
orbid conditions, giving rise to the ause (a) stating derlying cause
nditions contrib- the death but not to the disease or on causing death.
50m-(b)-11-49-900,560
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Received and filed
Frank J. Orpin (If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
2 FULL NAME.
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
South Boston
17 NAME OF
FATHER
William Orpin
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 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, specifying the war, and shall also certify in such certificate both the primary and the secondary or imme- diate 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 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 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- ment, 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 selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is
If such a caused by violence, the medical examiner shall make such certificate.
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
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