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Winthr
If hontesident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death
.... years.
.months ...
.... days. In place of residence ..
.2 ... years
.months.
.. days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 DATE OF
DEATH
October
(Day)
1253
(Month)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deceased from
19.5.3 ...... to .. Oct ...... ] ..
19 .. 53.
I last saw hen alive on Sept. 30.
195.3. death is said to
.m.
INTERVAL BE-
have occurred on the date stated above, at .... ..... 30.P.
TWEEN ONSET AND DEATH
DISEASE OR CONDITION
DIRECTLY LEADING
TO DEATH (a).
Carcinoma ... of
pancreas
1 yr
ANTE
Due To
CEDENT (b)
CAUSES
Due To (c)
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
Major findings:
Mass in pancreas
Of operations.
Date of operation.
1/19/53
Was autopsy performed ?... .. no.
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
operative
no
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? If so, specify ..
(Address)
51 Brattfest
Date. 10/1/5319
6 ... Winthrop .... Cemetery
Place of Burial or Cremation
(City or Town)
inthrop
DATE OF BURIAL
October 3 ,953
19
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Alfred B. Marsh
ADDRESS
189 Winthrop St. , Winthrop
Received and filed.
NOV 12.1953
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
AGE 1
Years
Months
Days
If under 24 hours
Hours.
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation :
Clerk Typist
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business:
Home Laon Co. Inc ..
15 Social Security No031.106902
16 BIRTHPLACE (City).
(State or country)
Lass
Kolrose,
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Andrew Linsett
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City) ... St ....... John's. (State or country)
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Mabel Phillips
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City).
(State or country)
.Charlestown
Mass.
21 InformarElmer.L ..... Lipsett ...
(Address)
do Upland St. ,Winthrop
A TRUE COPY
ATTEST:
Frederick H. Burke
(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
..... 19 ..
m.s/
9 COLOR OR RACE
8 SEX
Female
White
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCEDDivorced
(write the word)
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of.
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of ......... WarrenLutt.
(Husband's name in full)
PARENTS
(Signed).
JosephTartan
M. D.
25M-(B)-11-51-905807
(Usual place of abode)
NOV19 AM
of death should be transmitted on Form R-305 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
NORFOLK
(County)
BROOKLINE
(City or Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
BROOKLINE
(City or town making return)
759 238
j (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. [ give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME John Warren Proctor (If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR) World II
(a) Residence. No. Su Locust Street
St.
Winthrop, Massachusetts
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death ............ years.
3.months.
days. In place of residence.
7.years.
...... months.
... days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 DATE OF
DEATH
October
12
1953
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
9 SEX
male
10 COLOR OR RACE
white
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED married
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY that I have investigated the death of the person above-named and that the CAUSE AND MANNER thereof are as follows: (If an injury was involved, state fully.)
11a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of
Claire C. Mclaughlin
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
12 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
37
13
AGE
Years
Months.
.Days
If under 24 hours
Hours ......
.Minutes
5 Accident, suicide, or homicide (specify)
Date and hour of injury. 19
Where did Injury occur? (City or town and State)
Did injury occur in or about home, on farm, in industrial place, or in public place?
Manner of
Injury
(How did injury occur?)
Nature of
Injury
While at work? Was autopsy performed? Oct.12,1
6 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? ...
If so, specify .... Thomas P Kendrick
(Signed)
.... 4.54 .... Washington Street
M. D.
(Address) Brookline, .Mass. Date .. Oct .13 53
Winthrop Cemetery Winthrop, Massachusetts 7
Place of Burial, or Cremation. (City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL October 16
19
53
8 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Winthrop, Massachusetts
ADDRESS
Received and filed
NOV 12 1953
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
PARENTS
19 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
New Hampshire
95/3
Cannot be learned
20 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Lillian Wallstrom
21 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Sweden
22 Claire C. Proctor
Informant
(Address)
54 Locust St., Winthrop, Mass.
A TRUE COPY
ATTEST:
(Registrar of Aty of Town where death occurred) Town Clerk
DATE FILED
October 14
19
53
14 Usual
Occupation:
U. S. Navy
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
15 Industry or Business:
16 Social Security No.
Malden
(Specify type of place)
17 BIRTHPLACE (City).
(State or country)
Massachusetts
18 NAME OF
FATHER
Carl Proctor
25m-(h)-10-48-24658
R-305 1
No. 173 Thorndike Street
Registered No.
11 SINGLE
(write the word)
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
Subdural Hemorrhage - hour
a fall at home
October 12, 1953 - Alcoholism
(Usual place of abode)
Maurice W. Kirby
TECEIVED
TOO
NOV13 AM
October 3, 1951 January 29, 1952 c S/3 U. S. N. R. V6 803-75-71
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
To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.
239
Registered No.
J(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
St. { give its NAME instead of street and number)
Julia T. Winston (Donovan)
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
25 Governor Road,
st.Stoneham
Lass.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death.
... years.
months. ... 4 ... days. In place of residence.
4
... years.
.months.
.. days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 DATE OF
DEATH
gov
1
53
(Year)
(Month)
(Day)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deceased from
Oct 17
1953
to.
nov.
1
1953
I last saw homem alive on
how. 1, 195, death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
3SIA m.
DISEASE OR CONDITION
DIRECTLY LEADING
TO DEATH (a).
Carchal Hemorrhage
INTERVAL BE- TWEEN ONSET AND DEATH 1/2day
ANTE anterio- selevotre Heart CEDENT (b) .. CAUSES Desire with comealive
farcire and
Due To
(c)
pulmonary salema
14 days
OTHER
Diabetes mellitus
15 yes :
SIGNIFICANT CONDITIONS
Major findings:
Of operations
Date of operation
.Was autopsy performed?
ho -
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
If so, specify
(Signed)
(Address) 222 Plataant &t il Date 11/1
1953
M. D.
Holy Cross Cemetery, Halden 6
Place of Burial or Cremation
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
November 4th
19.51
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
ADDRESS 17 Bennington St. , E. Boston
Received and filed
NOV 4 1953
19
(Registrar)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
Female White
10 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCEDWidowed
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
James B. Winston
(Husband's name in full)
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
AGE 75
9
Months ... 21. Days
Years
If under 24 hours
Hours
Minutes
13 Usual
At home
Occupation :
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business:
Housewife
15 Social Security No. None
16 BIRTHPLACE (City).
(State or country)
Mass.
17 NAME OF
FATHER
John Donovan
PARENTS
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Ireland
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Mary Regan
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Ireland
21 Mrs, Marie Holetz-daughter
Informant
(Address)
25 Governor Bd. Stoneham
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: Walter 6, Baker.
(Signathe of Agent of Board of Health or other)
HO WH
nov-2-1953
(Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit)
X
JCTIONS OR ERTIFICATE
iving F DEATH t enter han one or each ) and (c)
Does not mean dying, such ure, asthenia, s the disease. tions which
conditions. g rise to the (a) stating ying cause
ons contrib- death but not e disease or using death.
SOM-5-52-907046
.
R-301A 1
2 FULL NAME
Slane han 11/31/53
No. WinthropCommunity Hospital
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
No
(a) Residence. No. (Usual place of abode)
9 COLOR OR RACE
East ... Boston
Richard C. Kirby
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
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 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 deaths only as those of persons who, though disabled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose physician is absent from home.when the certificate of death is needed.
(3) Medical Examiners will investigate and certify to all deaths 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 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
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
To be filed for burial pormit with Board of Health or its Agent.
240
2 FULL NAME ARTHUR J. CALDWELL
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
86 Ingleside Avenue
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death
years
months.
2.1 .. days. In place of residence.
1Qears
.months
.. days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 DATE OF
DEATH
nov.
2
1953
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deceased from
Det. 11,
1953
to.
200.2
1953
I last saw himy alive on.
1953, death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at. 1:40 A.m.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
Male
White
9 COLOR OR RACE
10 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCEPried
10a If married, widge 1.elivaved Herbert
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
AGE
Years
Months.
Days
If under 24 hours
Hours
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation:
Elec ..... Welder
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business:
U.S.Naval .... Shipyard
15 Social Security No.
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Masg
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Jacob A. Caldwell
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
Lynn
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Mass
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHERIsabelle McKenna
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
Date AU.2
19.522
MOTHER (City)
Lynn
(State or country)
Mass
21 Helen.M ....... Caldwell
Informant (Address) 86 Ingleside Ave., Winthrop
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
ADDRESS
Winthrop Mass
Received and filed
NOV 4 1953 19
(Registrar)
3 who
ANTE Telcute gastrica Uleur CEDENT (b) CAUSES
(c) Je Te gastric Resection 3 mks.
OTHER SIGNIFICANT CONDITIONS
Major findings:
Of operations
s: Bleeding Gastric Was
Date of operation.
Oct.12, 1953 Was autopsy performed?
What test confirmed diagnosis?
Clinical
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? If so, specify Jules Liberman M. D.
(Signed) ..
(Address))).3 .. 96.
Winthrop
Winthrop
6 Place of Burial or Cremation (City of Town)
DATE OF BURIAL November 5 19.5.3
50M-5-52-907046
R-301A 1
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)
(a) Residence. No. (Usual place of abode)
JCTIONS OR CERTIFICATE
iving F DEATH t enter han one or each ) and (c)
Does not mean dying, such ure, asthenia, s the disease. tions which t.
conditions. g rise to the (a) stating ying cause
ons contrib- death but not e disease or using death.
PARENTS
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: Waller,7-Malere (Signature of Agent of Board of Health of other)
Health Macer -11.415
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)
INTERVAL BE- TWEEN OXSET ANO DEATH 3 who 57
DISEASE OR CONDITION
DIRECTLY LEADING
TO DEATH (a)
Peritonitis
Registered No.
Lynn
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 (leath 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 ninetcen 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
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, See. 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 violenee, 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.
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