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SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE
DATE OF DISCHARGE RANK, RATING. ORGANIZATION AND OUTFIT
SERVICE NUMBER
-302 1
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
after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.)
50m-(e)-10-48-24658
PLACE OF DEATH
BIRTH NO I. PLACE OF DEATH ., COUNTY Palm Beach
CODE NO.
8. STATE
Massachusetts COUNTY
b. CITY
TOWN Delray Beach
TOWN Winthrop
&. FULL NAME OF (Lt nut ta bogftel er Institution, give street address or justien) HOSPITAL OR Florida East Coast Train INSTITUTION
d. STREET
git rural, give Jucatlenl
.ADDRESS
411 Shirley Street
& (Lt)
4. DATE (Month)
(Day) (Year)
(Type of Frisk!
&. SEX 6. COLOR OR RACE
8. DATE OF BIRTH
No.
Male White
7. MARRIED, NEVER MARRIED, WIDOWED, DIVORCED (toacity) "Married
July 15. 1883 68
1DE. USUAL OCCUPATION(Oh9 kind of warh 10b. KIND OF BUSINESS OR IN-
II. BIRTHPLACE ¡State or foreign muatry) / 7
12. CITIZEN OF WHAT COWURY? USA
(I 11. FATHER'S NAME DAVID EDOVITZ
15. WAS DECEASED FTEN IN U. E. ARMED FORCES?
14. SOCIAL SECURITY
CHE yen, giro vor ce dates of entrice) NO.
unknown
18. CAVEE OF DEATH
MEDICAL CERTIFICATION
Length of stay: In
DIRECTLY LEADING TO DEATH" Coronary Occlusion
ANTECEDENT CAUSES
ME
"Thin deco not mean the mode of dying, Morbid conditions, if any, giving
3 DATE OF DEATH
the disease, injury, of
complication which Il. OTHER EIGNIFICANT CONDITIONS
Conditions contributing to the death but not related to the
20. AUTOPSY ?
4 I HEREBY
11. DATE OF OPERA- 19%. MAJOR FINDINGS OF OPERATION TION
42-01-26
(COUNTY)
(STATE)
11a. ACCIDENT
If rural, state SURAL)
SUICIDE
I last saw h
(Month)
210. INJURY OCCURRED
21. HOW DID FUUIT OCCTAT
21d. TIME OF INJURY
WHILE AT NOT WHILE
M
AT WORK
have occurred on th
DISEASE OR CO2 I hereby certify that I attended the deceased from 19
Lo 19 ____ , that I last saw the deceased
re.
alive
that death arrume! at 10: 43 Am, from the causes and on the date stated above 23b. ADDRESS
2c. DATE SIGNED
Delray Beach, Florida 3-5-52
Days
done during most of working life)
Due To (c)
15 Social Security No.
16 BIRTHPLACE (City). (State or country)
OTHER SIGNIFICANT CONDITIONS
17 NAME OF FATHER
Major findings: Of operations.
Date of operation
Was autopsy performed?
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
If so, specify. (Signed) (Address)
Date.
19
6
Place of Burial or Cremation
DATE OF BURIAL
7 NAME OF FUNERAL DIRECTOR
ADDRESS.
Received and filed.
JUN 4 1952
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
(City or town making return)
gistered No.
103
ed in a hospital or institution, E instead of street and number)
Was deceased a U. S. War Veteran, f so specify WAR)
.days.
STICAL PARTICULARS
10 SINGLE MARRIED WIDOWED or DIVORCED
den name of wife in full)
and's name in full)
If under 24 hours Hours Minutes
Ma. RERIA CREMA- 24%, DATE
24c. NAME OF CEMETERY OR CREMATORY 24d. LOCATION (City, town, or county)
(State)
TION, REMOVAY Umwelt !! REMOVAL
3-5-52
Malden, Mass.
Due To
25. FUMERAL DIRECTOR'S EIGNAT
ADDRESS
DATE REC'D BY LOCAL REGISTRAR'E SIGNATUR
Lake Worth Funeral
3-1-52 REG.
14 Industry or Business:
PARENTS
18 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) (State or country)
19 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER
20 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country)
21 Informant (Address)
A TRUE COPY.
ATTEST:
(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)
DATE FILED ........
.............. .. 19
X
2 FULL NAME.
Clothing Mf
Poland
14. MOTHER'E MAIDEN NAME
Unknown
(a) Residence. (Usual p
unknown
17. INFORMANT'S SIGNATURE Ease Elants (By Podle ADDRESS 4]] Shirley St .. "lochry Wars, give city or town and State)
INTERVAL BETWEEN ONSET AND DEATH
Ester only one casse I. DISEASE OR CONDITION per line for (a), (b); and (e)
DUE TO (E)
Mail, con. It means ". the underlying mouse let.
DUE TO Ic
7
DIRECTLY LEAD TO DEATH (a)
23a. S
Men er title)
ANTE CEDENT (b) CAUSES
NON RESIDENT DEATH
STATE PILE NO ...
7819
REGISTR ANT.S NO
14
60-63
LENGTH OF STAY Chị tháp pinte) 1 hour
c. CITY OR
ar cutekde purper . lleite, write RURALI
1. NAME OF & (Finut) DECEASED Harry
b. (Middle)
Edovitz
DEATH March 4, 1952
DUSTRY
Copies of returns of deaths which occurred in your city of town in case the deceased resided in another city of town at the time
M. D.
(City or Town) 19
(write the word)
21b. PLACE OF INJURY (e.g. In cr abant 2le. [CITY OR TOWN
一一
-302
1
PLACE OF DEATH
NORFOLK (County) BROOKIJNE (City of Town)
No. Free Hospital for Women .
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
BROOKLINE
(City or town making return)
Registered No.
304 104
J(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, 245 Pond Avenue. x ( give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME. Genevieve McGarigle (Weed)
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.) st.
620 Shirley Place
x. Winthrop,
Massachusetts
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death. .years. .months.
13 .... days. In place of residence.
..... years ...
.. months.
.. days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
Female
9 COLOR OR RACE
White
10 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Widowed
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of.
William J McGarigle
(Husband's name in full)
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
AGE .... 7.1 .. Years.
Months.
Days
If under 24 hours
Hours ......
.Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation:
At home
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry or Business:
15 Social Security No.
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Pennsylvania
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Charles G Weed
PARENTS
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Ohio
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Adelaide L Wilcox
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
21
Informant
(Address)
620 Shirley St., Winthrop, Mass.
A TRUE COPY
ATTEST:
1
(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)
Received and filed.
May 14 1952
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
.....
3 DATE OF
DEATH
April
16
19.52
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deceased from
April3.
52
19 ..
to
April ... 16
19.5.2
I last saw h .. er ...
alive on
April ... 15 ...
19 ... 52 death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at. 6 .: 10 .... p.
.. m.
INTERVAL BE-
TWEEN ONSET AND DEATH
DISEASE OR CONDITION DIRECTLY LEADING
TO DEATH (a)
Stage IV Carcinoma tosis
Primary Cervix (Uremia)
Due To
Vaginal Fecal Fistula
Due To :, (c)
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
Prob. Coronary Occl.
Of operations
Jan. 30, 1952-Colostomy
Date of operation
.Was autops3 BetorMedkvis
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?. no
If so, specif;
"John R Bottomy
(Signed).
Free Hosp. for WomenDate Apr. 16
.5.2
M. D.
(Address)
Brookline, Maşs
6 .Winthrop Cemetery Winthrop Mass Place of Burfal or Cremation DATE OF BURIAL ........ April ... 18 19.52
city anses huset ts
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Maurice W Kirby
ADDRESS
Winthrop, Massachusetts
Helen Freeman
DATE FILED
April 18
.................
19 .... 52 ......
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR) ..... no
(a) Residence. No. (Usual place of abode)
ANTE CEDENT (b) CAUSES Major findings: 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 VOpics of retunits of deathis whatis ortunico mff your city of wowir in case wie detcascu festded in affother city of town at the time CONDITIONS 25M (E)-6-50-902253 after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (See Chap. 46, Ser 12, G. L.)
Philadelphia
17
/1 ! !! ! !!???
5
6
MAY14
302
1
Danvers
(City of Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Danvers
(City or town making return)
105
Danvers State Hospital, Hathorne No.
J(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. [ give its NAME instead of street and number)
Aurelius Gale Pheasant
2 FULL NAME.
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
5 Johnson Terrace
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death years months days. In place of residence. .years
.months
.days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 DATE OF
DEATH
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
LAHEREBYCER TyZY .
19
im
April 30
52
I last saw h
alive on
6:50 'a.
death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at .m.
DISEASE OR CONDITION DIRECTLY LEADINGronchopneumonia TO DEATH (a)
ANTE
Due To CEDENT (b) CAUSES
Due To (c)
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
disease
years
Major findings: Of operations.
Date of operation
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? if so, specify Andrew Nichols 3rd (Signed). Danvers ,NaGS ..
5/1/
M. 98
Iboksbury Cemetery .. Date ... Madison, L.
6
Place of Burial or Cremation May 5,
(City or Town) 52
DATE OF BURIAL
19
7 NAME OF FUNERAL DIRECTORthrop, Mass ... ADDRESS.
Received and filed MAY 15 1952 19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
Male
9 COLOR OR RACE
White
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
(write the word)
Married
10a If married, widowed, fædren McCormack 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
68
0
26
AGE
Years
Months.
Days
If under 24 hours
Hours .....
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation :.
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry or Business:
15 Social Security No.
16 BIRTHPLACE (City).
(State or country)
James R. E. Pheasant
17 NAME OF
FATHER
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
Indiana
(State or country)
19 MAIDEN NAMEGeorgia Gale OF MOTHER
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Indiana
21 Mary. B. Shechan
Informant
(Address)
Hathorre, ..... Mass ...
A TRUE COPY
ATTEST:
(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
May
5,
........ 19 52
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 after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (See Chap. 46, Ser 12, G. L.)
25M (E)-6-50.902253
PLACE OF DEATH
Essex
(County)
Registered No.
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
Vinthrop
(a) Residence. No. (Usual place of abode)
19
April
30, 1952
That i Attended deceased 5from
19
INTERVAL BE- TWEEN ONSET AND DEATH I day
Arteriosclerotic heart
Indiana
A PARENTS
19 ..
Alfred Marsh
Auditor and Lawyer
302
1
Boston
(City or Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Boston
(City or town making return)
Registered No.
#54106
2 FULL NAME
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
3 Brewster Ave.
St.
Winthrop Mass.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death
.....
... years.
months.
11
.days.
In place of residence
27
ears
.months
.days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 DATE OF
DEATH
May 1/52
(Day)
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
April, 21/52
to
That I
attended deceased
May 1
52
19
19
death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at.
6;15P
m.
INTERVAL BE-
TWEEN ONSET
AND DEATH
DISEASE OR CONDITION
DIRECTLY LEADING
TO DEATH (a)
Perforated appendix
2 Weeks
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
AGE.7.3
Years
9
Months.
1
.Days
If under 24 hours
Hours
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation:
Postal Clerk
14 Industry
or Business:
U S Post Office
15 Social Security No.
None
Indian River Maine
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Delbert Crowley
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City).
(State or country)
Indian River Maine
Date of operation
5-22-52 Vas autopsy performed?
Yes
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
Exploratory Laparotomy
No
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
If so, specify.
W. C Cotter
M. D.
(Signed).
(Address)
N. E. D. Hospt.
Date
5-2
1952
Winthrop em-Winthrop Mass.
6
Place of Burial or Cremation
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL 19
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Winthrop mass.
ADDRESS
Received and filed. MAY 13 1952 19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
PARENTS
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Charlette Crowley O.K.
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
Indian River Maine
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
21
Informant
(Address)
Wife
ATTEST:
Carles A
(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
May 5 1952
25M (E).6-50.902253
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk (County)
No.
Fred H Crowley
J(If 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)
(a) Residence. No. (Usual place of abode)
8 SEX
M
9 COLOR OR RACE
W
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
(write the word)
Married
10a If married, widowed, or divorcediary E Kilgallen
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
ANTE
Due To
CEDENT (b)
CAUSES
Due To (c)
Arterio sclerotic heart dis ·
CONDITIONS
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
pulmonary emphysema
Major findings:
Of operations.
Generalized peritonitis
May 5/52
A TRUE GOPY
V Reynolds
New England Center Hospital
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 after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (See Chap. 46, Ser 12, G. L.)
(Month)
I last saw h ...... im.alive on.
May 1
52
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
03-A
1
PLACE OF DEATH
Sulpulk County) Winther4
The Commonforalth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
To be filed for burlal permit with Board of Health or its Agent.
Registered No.
107
St. { { If death occurred in a hospital or inatitution, ( give ita NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.) 125 Washing Len ave Wunderst
(a) Residenoe. No.
(Usual place of abode)
Length of stay: In hospital or Institution
( Before death)
( Specify whether)
years
months
2 days.
In this community
yTs.
mos.
days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 SEX
4 COLOR OR RACEĮ
Female Volte
5 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
(write the word)
Single
5a If marrled, widowed, or divoroed HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
(Husband'a name in full)
6 Age of husband or wife If allve
years
7 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
8 56 Years. 1 Months 28 .Days
If less than 1 day Hours .. Minutes ....
Usual
9 Occupation :
Interior Ocenator
Industry
Self employed
10 or Business :
11 Social Security No ....
12 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country )
Last Boston mars.
13 NAME OF
FATHER
archibald 5. Dalzell
14 BIRTHPLACE OF
Hamilton
FATHER (City)
...
(State or country)
Scotland
15 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Ellen Bradley
16 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
East Boston
(State or country)
maso-
Informant ( Address) 41 Emerson Road
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was flied with mo. BEFORE the burial or transit permit was Issued : 34940
(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
(Official :Designation) |2 . (Date of Issue of Permit)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
18 DATE OF
DEATH
Juan -
2 -1952
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
19 | HEREBY CERTIFY that 1 have Investigated the death of the person above-named and that the CAUSE AND MANNER thereof are as follows : (If an injury wha/involveds state fully.)/ Spontaneous uplure Heart. Recent Cardiac In parcTo helt Ventricle : Coronary Sclerosis
20 Aocident, sulolde, or homlolde (specify)
Date of ooourrenoe.
19
Where did
Injury opour ?
(City or town and State)
Did Injury ooour In or about home, on farm, In Industrial place, or In publlo
place ?
(Specify type of place)
Manner of
Collapsed a died quickly
Injury
Nature of
m hospital
While at work ?.
.Was there an autopsy?
yes
21 Was disease or Injury In any way related to ocoupation of deocased?
If so, speolfy.
(Signed)
M. D.
(Address)
2 Winthrop
Place of Burial, Cremation or Removal.
(City or Town)
23 NAME OF
Urettria a Reynolds
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
ADDRESS
180 WinthropST Winthrop Mais
Reoelved and filled MAY 6. 19
(Registrar)
On Vating List 41 Emerson Rd
If deceased was a U. S. War Veteran, G. L. Chap. 46, Seotlon 10, requires physicians to Insert a recital to that effeot PARENTS
50m-(f)-6-43-12056
No.
Winthrop Community Hospital Enkel Elizabeth
Dalzell
PHYSICIAN-IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
If so speolfy WAR)
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
Injury
Katy-3 -1952
17 archillalds Nahell Relation, if any DATE OF BURIAL may 5 1952
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
A physician or registered hospital medloal offioer 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 physiciau or officer and the date of his death ... Gen. Laws, Chap. 16, 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, specl- fying the war, and shall also certify in such certificate both the primary and the secondary or immediste canse 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-Ave, forty-six and forty-seven of said chapter one hundred and fourteen, the word "war" shall include the China relief ex- pedition and the Philippine insurrection, which shall, for sail purposes, be deemed to have taken place between February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and July fourth, nineteen hundred and two, and the Mexi- csn 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 tuwu, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he has received a perinit froin 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 aforesald or from the clerk of the town where the body is buried. No such perinit 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 mieinher 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 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 conimonwealth cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, the certificate of death made as above provided and in the pos- session of the undertaker desiring to make such renioval 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 re- moval, unless a permit in the usual form for the removal of such body has heen 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 ariny. navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which
it has been engaged, such rec,'tal shall appear upon the permit. The board of health, or its agent, ujuiti receipt of such statement and certificate, shall forthwith countersign it wint transmit it to the clerk of the town for regis- tration. 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 cause of the death, which the clerk or registrar may re- quire .- Chap. 114, Sec. 15, G. L., (Terceutenary Edition).
No undertaker or other person shall bury a human body or the ashes thereof which have been brought into the commonwealth until he has re- ceived a permit so to do from the board of health or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such boaril, 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 appointed to have the care of the cenietery or burial ground iu which the intermeut is made. . .. Chap. 114, Sec. 46, G. L., (Terceutenary Edi- tion ).
Medical examiners shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of ouly such persons as are supposed to have died by violence. If a medical examiner has notice that there is within his county the body of such a person, he shall forthwith go to the place where the body lies and take charge of the sanie; ...- General Laws, Chap. 3S, Sec. 6.
... He shall in all cases certify to the town clerk or registrar in the place where the deceased died his name and residence, if known; otherwise a description as full as may be, with the cause and manuer 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 calla for the observance of the following rules of practice :
(1) Attending physiolans 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 physlolans will certify to such deaths only aa those of persons who, though disabled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose physi- ciau is absent from home when the certificate of death ia needed.
(3) Medloal Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths sup- posably due to Injury. These include not ouly deaths caused directly or lo- directly by traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and by the action of chemical (drugs or poisons), thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, but also desils from disease resulting from Injury or Infection related to occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized diseasa, and those of persons found dead.
STATEMENT OF CAUSE OF DEATH
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 (gss bacillus) caused by a steam railway accident." "Pistol shot wound of the chest with asso- ciated hemorrhage, homicidal." "Asphyxiation by suspension, suicidal." "Syncope while under the influence of ether adininistered aa 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 chowa the death to have been due to disease, specify: (1) Under cause its known or presumahle nature; aml (2) under manner, indicate the circum- stances leading to medico-legal inquiry. For example : "Hemorrhage spon- taneous of the brsin (hasal ganglia) (found dead in bed)." "Ileart disease, presumably coronary sclerosis. (Sudden death.)"
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