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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 ralessof practice:
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 ZI to any form of injury.
Board of Health physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of who, though disabled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of have died without recent medical attendance or whose physician is absent Home when the certificate of death is needed.
Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths supposably
remove it from a town. from one cemetery to another, or from one grave offhave to injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or indirectly by
fraumatism (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 syddon deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, and those of Hedens 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 done 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
PLACE OF DEATH
SUFFOLK 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 12
(City or town making return)
Registered No.
7779 172
[(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
XXXt. ( give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME.
BENJAMIN .... CONNORS
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No.
128 River Road,
(Usual place of abode)
xx
Winthrop,
(II nonresident, give city of towit and State)
Length of stay: In place of death.
.......... years.
1.
.months.
.days. In place of residence.
........
.years
MonthLO
days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 DATE OF
DEATH
August
(Morfth)
(Day) ">
(Year) 52
8 SEX
M
9 COLOR OR RACE
W
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED Married
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
7/8
19 ... 52 ...
to
8/9
19 ...
5
HUSBAND of.
Florence Touchet
I last saw
h
.im.alive on
8/9
19.52. death is said to
(or) WIFE of.
(Husband's name in full)
DISEASE OR CONDITION DIRECTLY LEADING TO DEATH (a) Generalized acute
peritonitis, post-op
ANTE
Due To
CEDENT (b)
CAUSES
Carcinoma of colon,
post-cp.
2yrs.
14 Industry
or Business
Drugs
15 Social Security No.
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Pittsfield
Mass,
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
Cirrhosis of liver
4yrs.
Major findings:
Carcinoma of colon, cirrhosis
Of operations.
.............. ver
Date of operation.
7/19/52
.. Was autopsy performed?
.. Yes
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
Aut.o.p.sy
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
If so, specify
(Signed)
P Metcalf
M. D.
(Address)7.50 Harrison Ave Date.
8/9
19
52
6
Winthrop
Winthrop
Place of Buffal or Cremation
(City of Town)
DATE OF BURIAL August 12, 19.52
21
Informant
(Address)
Mrs. B. Connors
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
M Kirby
ADDRESS. Winthrop, Mass
Received and filed.
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
PARENTS O
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Michael Connors
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
Pittsfield,
FATHER (City).
(State or country)
Mass.
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Jane Riely
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
St.Albans
(State or country)
Vt.
A TRUE COPY
Charles It Mackie
ATTEST:
(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
August .. 15,
.......................
19
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.)
25M-(B)-11-51-905807
INTERVAL BE-
TWEEN ONSET
AND DEATH
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
14day
AGE ... 6.9 Years
Months.
Days
If under 24 hours
.Hours.
Minutes
13 Usual
Pharmacist
Occupation:
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
Due To (c)
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
have occurred on the date stated above, at
1:45pm.
That I attended deceased
from
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
No
(write the word)
No. 750 Harrison Ave.
-302 1
RECEIVED
OF
TOWN
OFFICE
11 12
1
2
MIN
CLERK
ES
SEP-3'952 AM
PLACE OF DEATH
(County)
(City or Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
To be filed for burial permit with Board of Heal /. or its A nt
Registered No. 173
J(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)
(h/deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.) 42 Main St (a) Residence. No. (Usual place of abode)
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death years .. months
days. In place of residence 50 years .. months .days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
9 COLOR OR RACE
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
(write the word)
10a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of
(Give maiden hame o
me of/wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12 AGA 2 .. 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)
17 NAME OF FATHER
18 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) (State or country)
Para Scolia
19 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER
Margenil MioJean
20 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country)
Delov Seolur
21 Informant (Address) 42Man &
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued:
Walter S Bakery.
(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
Health Auch 8+ 11 /52 ....
(Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit)
100M-(D)-10-46-24656
DATE OF BURIAL ...
7 NAME OF FUNERAL DIRECTOR A chique / July
ADDRESS
Received and filed AUG 11 1952
.19
(Registrar)
15 min
ANTE CEDENT CAUSES
(b)
Due To Hypertensive ortico-
schematic heart disease
Due To (c) .
OTHER SIGNIFICANT CONDITIONS
-
Major findings: Of operations. MORE
Ko.
Date of operation Was autopsy performed ?. clinical + laboratory
What test confirmed diagnosi
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? to. If so, specify ...... . (Signed) Mawick Traweltin M. D. (Address) 56 2 Shepler ++. ruiz, 9 9/ 1957
1
.....
6 Place of Bunal of Cremation"
(City or Town)
PARENTS
St. 1
Jeannette COM Lowveld) Murray
2 FULL NAME ...
august (Alonth)
9 (Day) /
1952 (Year)
That I attended deceased from
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
march 26
1952
to
august 9
1952
I last saw h Qr .alive on august 6, , 1950
death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above. at 3:30 A.m.
INTERVAL BE-
DISEASE OR CONDITION DIRECTLY LEADING TO DEATH a) acute Coronary thrombosis
TWEEN ONSET AND DEATH
301A 1
ONS IFICATE g EATH ter one ach d (c)
ot mean ng, such asthenia, disease, s which
ditions, se to the stating cause
contrib- but not sease or g death.
nova Scotia
Home
2 years
Quy 12
19.3
42 Main Arma No.
3 DATE OF
DEATH
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 { \ing mules of practice: 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.
OF
TOWN)
No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a hum in a town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been baked. uffil has received a permit from the board of health, or its agent appointed such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the townlwhere the person died; and no undertaker or other person shallexhume a human body remove it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one ave or tonth Into he Has other than the receiving tomb to another in the same cemetery received a permit from the board of health or its agent aforesaid or fto the cher of the town where the body is buried. No such permit shall be issue there shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, as the se a satisfactory written statement containing the facts required returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an ment, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no att 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 purpuro application make the certificate required of the attending physician 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 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 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. 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 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-
{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.
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 hijury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose physician is absent from home when the certificate of death is needed.
Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths supposably fne. tof injury. These include not only deaths caused directly or indirectly by traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and by the action of chemical drugi or poisons) thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, but deaths from disease resulting from injury or infection related to occupation, USO udden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, and those of por ons found dead.
to e TROP MASS. tátement 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- egy M that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known. Make Osthe 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 done 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
.- 302
1
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 CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
BOSTON
(City or town making return)
Registered No.
76981 74
[(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, XXXXXX give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME. CHARLES W VENEDAM
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
104 Highland Ave.,
xxxxx ... Winthrop .......
Mas.s ...
(a) Residence. No. (Usual place of abode)
(It
onresident, 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
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 DATE OF
DEATH
August
1.5.,.
19.52
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That WAaftenSed Megeased from
8/14
19
.52
to
8/15
1952
I last saw h.
alive on
19
death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at :350.
.. m.
INTERVAL BE-
TWEEN ONSET AND DEATH
DISEASE OR CONDITION
DIRECTLY LEADING
TO DEATH (ametastatic carcinoma
or rectum
2글
yrs
ANTE Due Toprimary site rectum
CEDENT (b) CAUSES
Due To (c)
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
Major findings:
Of operations.
Date of operation
Was autopsy performed?
What test confirmed diagnosis?
Clinical
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
If so, specify1.
(Signed)
H
Nigro
M. D.
(Address) .... B ...........
Date.
8/15 1952
6 Holy CROSS
(City or Honden
DATE OF BURIAL
August 18,
19.52
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
F Magrath
ADDRESS
F Boston
Received and filed.
SEP 11 1952
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
63
AGE
Years
Months.
Days
If under 24 hours
Hours
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation:
Carpenter
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business:
Self-employed
15 Social Security No.
Boston
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Mass,
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Charles Venedam
PARENTS
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Canada
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER Mary J Durant
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Canada
21
Informant
(Address)
A TRUE COPY
charles H. MAEK:3
ATTEST:
(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
August 19,
52
19
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
after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.)
25m-(b)-11-49-900,475
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
10 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Married
10a If married, widowed, or divorced,
HUSBAND of
Alice Feely
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
8 SEX
M
9 COLOR OR RACE
W
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran.
if so specify WAR).
No. Boston City Hospital
.....
A Venedam
RECEIVE)
OF
TOWA
OFFICE O
11 12
iLENK
92
MIN
K
1.65
MASS
11
SEP 10 195AM
1A
1
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk (County) Hanthrop (City or Town)
medion
14/8/50
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.
Haithrop Community Hospitals No.
[(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)
none
(a) Residence. No. 33 magan a (Usual place of abode)
St. .
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death years.
months.
12
days. In place of residence.
2
.years
months
. days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
00 8 SEX
9 COLOR OR RACE
1
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
(white the word)
Skuclawed
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deceased from
det.27.
1948.
to
aug. 16
I last saw her alive on
aug. 16 5de
is said to
INTERVAL BE-
TWEEN ONSET
AND DEATH
(or) WIFE of.
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of ..
Edward Merchant
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(Husband's name in full)
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
3 LUKO
AGE
79
Months
.. Days
If under 24 hours
Hours
Minutes
Hemorrhage
ANTE
Due To
arteriosclerosis
CEDENT (b)
CAUSES
1 year
14 Industry
or Business:
Qun home
75 Social Security No.
16 BIRTHPLACE (City) dondeways. (State or country)
nova Scotia
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
Fordways
(State or country) Nova Scotia
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Paula Landry
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
nova Scotia.
Thomas C Merchanty (Address) 33 Mayoun Gue Medford
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the Burial or transit petmit was issued: Walter A. Baker x.
(Signature of Agent af Board of Health or other)
Health Sauce
8/18/53
(Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit)
S
CATE
ATH
. ne h ( c )
mean , such henia, isease, which
lions. to the aling cause
nirib- ut not se or death.
100M-(D)-10-48-24656
6 Becky Build ROODremation DATE OF BURIAL
august
18
19.
7 NAME OF FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Frederick, Magnet
ADDRESS
East Dostaly
Received and filed
AUG 1-8-1952
19
(Registrar)
PARENTS -
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Patrick Bránil
Major findings:
Of operations.
none
Date of operation
Was autopsy performed?
200
What test confirmed di
cruce a X-ray
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
0
Chaus
If so, specify ...... .....
(Signed) Lacor
(Addres 2562
up 12 Mais.
1 year
OTHER
Bilateral otitis
CONDITIONS
media
6 mos.
3 DATE OF
DEATH
august 16
(Day)
1952
(Year)
Termale White
(Month)
mary merchant
2 FULL NAME ..
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
Registered No.
175
ardeways h
Informant
21
Occupation :
13 Usual
Housework
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
(c)
¿ To Senility
have occurred on the date stated above, at 1/ A.m.
DISEASE OR CONDITION
DIRECTLY LEADING
TO DEATH (a)
Cerebral
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 shallexhume 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 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 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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