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Mrs Gertrude Meharg(mother)
18. I. DISEASE OR CONDITION DIRECTLY LEADING TO DEATH This does not mean the mode of dying, such as heart failure, asthenia, etc. It means the disease, injury, or complication which caused death. ANTECEDENT CAUSES Morbid con- (b) ditions, if any, giving rise to the above cause (a) stating the underlying cause last. (c)
(a)
DUE TO
OCOCCI
DUE TO
20. AUTOPSY?
YES
X
NO
( Degree or title)
21f. HOW DID INJURY OCCUR?
,
----
Meharg
Laconia Hospital
WIDOWED, DIVORCED (Specify)
Single
RECEIVED
OF
TOWA
9:2
4
C.
R
SEP16 AM
L
PLACE OF DEATH
SUFFOLK BOSTON
(City or Town)
Veterans Administration Hospital
[(If death occurred in a hospital or institution.
X SX \ give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME.
RIES E LEONARD
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.) 24 Cottage Ave.,
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran.
if so specify WAR)
www I
(a) Residence. No. (Usual place of abode)
XXXXX
Winthrop Mass.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death
........
... years
10
months.
.days.
In place of residence.
.......... years.
months.
.days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 DATE OF
DEATH
August
31
1953
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
8 SEX
M
9 COLOR OR RACE
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Married
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
8/21
19
to
Thaty Afattended deceased from
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
8/31
19
53
HUSBAND of
Violet Aldrich
XXXXXXXXainXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .. , death is said to have occurred on the date stated above, at .... 6 ... 04a .m.
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
DISEASE OR CONDITION
DIRECTLY LEADING
TO DEATH (a)coronary arterioscler- yrs
osis with coronary
-days
insufficioney
INTERVAL BE- TWEEN DNSET AND DEATH
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
63
1
AGE
Years
Months.
27
Days
If under 24 hours
Hours ......
. Minutes
ANTE
Due To
CEDENT (b) ...... Pericarditis.
CAUSES
days
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business:
Newspaper
15 Social Security No.
028-16-9523
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
Pyelonephritis.
mons
Major findings:
Of operations.
Date of operation.
Was autopsy performed ?.
yes
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
autopsy
.. no
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? If so, specify
(Signed).
B .... Barrett
M. D.
(Address)
V ..... ....... ...
Date 8/37
19 .... 53
6 .. woodlawn .Com Place of Burial or Cremation
Everett Mass (City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL Sep2
19.53
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
A Marsh
ADDRESS.
Winthrop Mass.
Received and filed.
7/14/53
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
PARENTS
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Illinois
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Ries
20 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country)
Illinois
21
Informant
V.A ... Hospital .... Records
(Address)
A TRUE COPY
Est: harles & Mackie
(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
Sop 3
53
.19
-
VIL
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, 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.)
R-302 1
No.
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.
77071 93
(write the word)
13 Usual
Occupation:
Newspaper Editor
Due To Acute pulmonary edema
(c).
and congestion
days
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Illinois
Chicago,
17 NAME OF FATHER Edwin H Leonard
25M-3-53-909098
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE - 6/28/17
" DISCHARGE
5/2/19
RANK, RATING ORGANIZATION & OUTFIT
PFC U S Army SERVICE NUMBER 164330
.
RECEIVED
.
1
ITHROP.
SEP1%
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, 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.)
X
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk (County)
Bos ton
(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.
194.7757
No.
Boston City. .. Hospt.
J(If death occurred in a hospital or institution. St. [ give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME ..
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran.
if so specify WAR)
W W #11
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
605 Berrington St
St.
East Boston Mass ..
(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
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
M
9 COLOR OR RACE
10 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
of DIVORCED Divorced
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I
attended deceased from
August- 29 .....
53 to.
Sept.2
19 ...
53
I last saw h.
..... alive on
19.
.... , death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
8:05PM
INTERVAL BE- TWEEN ONSET AND DEATH L; Days
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
AGE.
26 Years
Months.
Days
If under 24 hours
Hours ....
.. Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation:
(Kind of work done dating
ianis Helper ....
14 Industry
or Business:
15 Social Security No.
021-20-3051
16 BIRTHPLACE (City).
(State or country)
Cambridge Mass.
17 NAME OF FATHER
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
William J Schieb
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
East Boston Mass.
19 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
Margaret Murphy
MOTHER (City)
Canada
6
Place of Burial or chidathrop Com-Winthro T. "Town) DATE OF BURIAL 19
Sept.5/53
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
F J Magrath
ADDRESS
East Boston Mass.
Received and filed. 19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
7 Day's
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, specify
(Signed)
I Merlig
(Address)
Boston City Hospe
Pate
19.
9-3 $3 (State or country)
21 Informant (Address) William J Schieb
A TRUE COPY
ATTEST;
(Registrar of City
(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred) Sept.8/53
DATE FILED
19
X
3 DATE OF
DEATH
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
Phyllis Carsullo
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of.
(Husband's name in full)
DISEASE OR CONDITION
DIRECTLY LEADING
TO DEATH (a)
Cholemia
ANTE
Due To
Infectious
CEDENT (b)
CAUSES
hepatitis
M B Foster Co.
PARENTS
M. D.
25M-3-53-909098
IR-302
FrancisSchieb
Sept. 2/53
RECEIVER
TOW
44
NIM
SEP14
Entered Service 9-23-44 Discharged 2-3-45 A.S. U S Navy Reserve Service No.579 88 80
X
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk
(County) Winthrop
(City or Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Registered No.
1.95
J(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. [ give its NAME instead of street and number)
Elizabeth L Stidstone
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
16 Woodside Park
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death
3
years.
.. months.
days. In place of residence.
.. years.
. ... months
days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 DATE OF
DEATH
Sept
2
1953
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
8 SEX
Female
White
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCEDincl
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY.
Jun
7
1950
to ..
I last saw her alive on
Sept 2
, 1953
death is said to
.m.
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of.
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
DISEASE OR CONDITION
DIRECTLY LEADING
TO DEATH (a)
Cerebral Hemorrhage
INTERVAL BE- TWEEN OHSET AND DEATH 1 day
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12 88
AGE
Years
2
Months.
10
.Days
If under 24 hours
Hours
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation :
surse
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business :.
Private
15 Social Security No
None
16 BIRTHPLACE (City).
(State or country)
Newfoundland
17 NAME OF
FATHER
John Stiastone
PARENTS
18 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) (State or country) Newfoundland
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Jane Moore
20 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country)
Newfoundland
Place of Burial or Cremation
(City, or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
19
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Forward & Purnell
ADDRESS
Received and filed.
....... 19
H.O
(Signature of the A&tof. Board of Health or other)
Sept. 433
(Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit)
A TRUE COPY ATTEST:
(Registrar)
3 yrs
Due To (c)
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
Major findings:
Of operations.
Date of operation.
Was autopsy performed ?.
What test confirmed diagnosis?
5 Was disease or jajury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
no
If so, spe ity Louis 7 Salerno M. D.
(Signed) .
175 Pleasant St Date Sept : 1953
(Address) ..
linthrop
6 inthron
Sept. 4
5
21 James Evans
Informant.
(Address)
to woodside Park Inthro
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: Waller- G. Bater
50M-(A)-11-51-905807
R-301 1
TIONS R RTIFICATE ving DEATH enter an one r each and (c)
es not mean dying, such e, asthenia, - the disease, ons which
conditions, rise to the (a) stating ing cause
ons contrib- ath but not disease or ing death.
(City or town making return)
16 Woodside Park No.
2 FULL NAME.
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
(a) Residence. No. (Usual place of abode)
3
9 COLOR OR RACE
(write the word)
That I attended deceased from
Sept 2
1953
have occurred on the date stated above, at.
100
ANTE
CEDENT (b)
CAUSES
Due To
Hypertension
st John
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 helief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died, defined as required hy section one, where same was contracted, the duration ot 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 hy the preceding section or hy section forty-five of chapter one hundred and four- teen, shall, if the deceased, to the best of his knowledge and belief, served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been engaged, insert in the certificate a recital to that effect, 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 horder service of nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seven- teen. 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 hody which has not been buried, until he has received a permit from the board of health, or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such hoard, from the clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or other person shall exhume a human hody and remove it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomb other than the receiving tomh 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 he issued until tbere 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, hy a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required hy law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot he obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a physician who is a member of the hoard 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 he 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 hody 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 hody 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 heen engaged, sucb recital shall appear upon the permit. The hoard of health, or its agent, upon receipt of such statement and certificate, shall forthwith countersign it and transmit it to the clerk of the town for registration. The person to whom the permit is so given and the physician certifying the cause of death shall thereafter furnisb for registration any other necessary information which can he obtained as to the deceased, or as to the manner or cause of the death, which the clerk or registrar may require .- Cbap. 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 hy violence. If a medical examiner has notice that there is within his county the hody of such a person, he shall forthwith go to the place where the hody lies and take charge of the same; ... General ·Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 6.
No undertaker or other persons shall hury a human hody or the asbes thereof which have heen, brought into the commonwealth until he has received a permit so to do from the board of bealtb or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is. no such hoard, from the clerk of the town where the body is to be huried or the funeral as to'he held, or from a person appointed to have the care of the cemetery or burial ground in which the interment is made.
Chap./114 ;; Secz.46;G. , (Tercentenary Edition).
HROF RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observance of the following rules of practice :
(1) Attending -physicians wip certify to such deaths only as those of persons to whom they inve given hedside care during a last illness from disease unrelated to any form of injury,
(2) Board of Health physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons who, though disahled 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 hy traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and by the action of chemical (drugs or poisons) thermal, or electrical agents, and deaths following abortion, hut also deaths from disease resulting from injury or infection related to occupa- tion, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled hy 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 he known. Make some entry in this section for every person aged 10 years or over. If the occupa- tion had heen given up or changed, or if the deceased had retired from husiness, report the kind of work done during most of working life even if retired. Children not gainfully employed may he 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 (County)
Tilthrop
(City or Town)
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.
196
2 FULL NAME
Frank Elmer Cheney
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence.
No.
(Usual place of abode)
125 Grovers Ave.
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death
......
.years
10
months
days. In place of residence
.years
months
.. days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 DATE OF
DEATH
Lept;
(Monthb
3
$1953
(Year)
8 SEX
I:ale
9 COLOR OR RACE
White
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
RCED arried
4THEREBY CERTIFY.
. That I attended deceased
from
way
1951
m
to ..
19
53
...
9/3/0, 1953
I last sawCeph alive on
death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
6:06 Ppm.
INTERVAL BE-
TWEEN ONSET ANO DEATH
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
AGE
78 Years 9
.Months.
6
Days
If under 24 hours
Hours ...
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation :
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business:
Owner
15 Social Security No.
015-28-6478
16 BIRTHPLACE (City).
(State or country)
Cambridge
OTHER
metroschematic
CONDITIONS
Heart Disease
3 yrs.
Major findings:
Of operations.
Date of operation.
Was autopsy performed?
200
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
Clinical
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?.
If so, s
M. D.
(Signed)
(Address)38 theone Drive Date 9/3/ 1993
Cambridge
6 Cambridge
Place of Burial or Cremation
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
Sept. 8
19.53
Howard & Pugnoles
ADDRESS
Received and filed. 19
(Registrar)
PARENTS
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City).
(State or country)
New Hampshire
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Mary Brown
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
New Hampshire
21 Ruth Cheney
Informant ...
(Address)
125 Grovers Ave. Winthroy
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
HO
(Signature/ Agent of Board of Health of other)
Seel 8/53
(Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit)
VIV
UCTIONS FOR CERTIFICATE
giving OF DEATH t enter than one for each b) and (c)
does not mean f dying. such ure, asthenia, ns the disease. ations which h.
d conditions. ng rise to the : (a) stating lying cause
ions contrib- death but not he disease or ausing death.
SOM-5-52-907046
mis
No.
Winthrop Community Hospital
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)
(write the word)
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of.
Ruth
Buxton
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
DISEASE OR CONDITION
DIRECTLY LEADING
TO DEATH
(a)
Francia -prolemonica
/wk
ANTE Due Esteis saberstic CEDENT (b) CAUSE gangrene Left leg
4 mos.
5 yrs.
Hotel
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Edwin L Cheney
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
winters muss.
33
Registered No.
R-301A 1
(Day) ...
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 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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