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R-302 1
11.12
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FEB10
M R-302 1
3 DATE OF
DEATH
(Signed).
Copies of returns of deaths which occurred in your city or town in case the deceased resided in another city or town at the time
after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (See Chap. 46, Sec 12, G. L.)
of death should be transmitted on Form R-302 to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased resided as soon as possible,
CONDITIONS
(Month)
Jan-36/5h
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deceased from
Dec.17"
57
19
to ..............
Jan .26 .... 19.521
I last saw h ............ alive on
Jan .26"
19 .. 5}- death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above. at.
.m.
INTERVAL BE-
L;LOA
TWEEN ONSET
AND DEATH
11 IF STILLBORN. enter that fact here.
12
AGE ... 81 .. Years'
4
.Months .
8
.Days
If under 24 hours
Hours .....
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation:
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business:
On .... Home
15 Social Security No.
Hone
16 BIRTHPLACE (City).
(State or country)
New York New York
17 NAME OF FATHER
Edwin S Watson
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Acton Maine
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
New Brunswick
21 Records of Old
Informant.
(Address)
Age Assistance
A TRUE COPY
ATTEST:
(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred) Jan.29/54
DATE FILED
19 .......
WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK - THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD
25M-10-53-910621
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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.
23 802. ...
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).
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
46 ... Washington ... Ave.
St
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death
.years ........... months1.6.
.. days. In place of residence.
........... years.
.. months.
.....
.days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
F
9 COLOR OR RACE
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCEOnsle
(write the word)
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).
Post-operativo
chock
18 Hrs
ANTE
Due To
CEDENT (b)
CAUSES
Due To (c)
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
Carcinoma of the rectum
3 Hos
Major findings:
Of operations.
Carcinoma of-rectum
Date of operation.
3+26~5} ... Was autopsy performed?
What test confirmed diagnosis?
methology
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
If so, specify
William A Whitcomb
(Address)
Mass.Mem.Hospt
1-26
Win throp Cem-Winthrop Mass.
6 Place of Burialor Cremation (City or Town) ·
DATE OF BURIAL
Jan. 28/54 19
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
H S Reynolds
Winthrop Mass.
ADDRESS.
Received and filed.
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
PARENTS
Annie l Kinney
a
n.S.
No.
Mass.Memorial Hosrt.
.......
Nettie .Watson
-
Winthrop Mass .
10
C
AVE.
M R-302
Copies of returns of deaths which occurred in your city or town in case the deceased resided in another city or town at the time after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (See Chap. 46. Sec 12, G. L.) of death should be transmitted on Form R-302 to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased resided as soon as possible,
25M· 10.53-910621
PLACE OF DEATH
[ SUFFOLK
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF
DOSTON
(City or town making return)
Registered No.
874 23
J(If death occurred in a hospital or institution. No. Peter Dent Brigham Hospital
.XXS. ( give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME. BLANCHE .... DITTMAR
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR).
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
14.Sunnyside Ave .. ....
Winthrop
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death .......
.years ..... ] ..... months .... 3 .... days. In place of residence ..
.months.
days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 DATE OF
DEATH
January
28.
.19.5.4
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
YHEREBY CERTIFY.
That IWarended deceased from
12/26
19
53
to
1/28
19
54
L last saw h .... A.I ... alive on
1/28
195.4, death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at ... B .:. 1Q.p ..... m.
INTERVAL BE-
TWEEN ONSET AND DEATH
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
AGE ..... Q. Years.
.3 ... Months. 2.5 ... Days
If under 24 hours
Hours.
.Minutes
Due To
mitral insufficiency
ANTE
CEDENT (b)
CAUSES
-3yrs
14 Industry
or Business:
At home
15 Social Security No ......
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Canada
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Joseph St. Cyr
Major findings:
Of operations.
Baffle procedure
Date of operation.
3/14/53
Was autopsy performed ?.
What test confirmed diagnosis?
autopsy
no
6 Oak Grove
Place of Burial or Cremation
(City of Town)
Plymouth, Mass.
DATE OF BURIAL.
Feb 1
19
4
Informant
(Address)
Husband
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
R .... Boaman
ADDRESS
Plymouth, 889
Received and filed.
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
PARENTS
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City).
(State or country)
Canada
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHERBernadette Bernard
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
If so, specify ....
(Signed) ...
V Cass
M. D.
(Address)
...... BBH
Data/29
19
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Canada
21
A TRUE COPY
ATTEST: Markes H. Mackie
(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred) Feb. 1,
54
DATE FILED
19
X
8 SEX
F
9 COLOR OR RACE
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
of DIVORCED
(write the word)
Married
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
George Dittmar
(Husband's name in full)
DISEASE OR CONDITION
DIRECTLY LEADING
TO DEATH (a) ......
rheumatic heart
disease &
13 Usual
Occupation:
Housework
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
Due To
Thrombus abdominal
(c)
aorta
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
-term
BOSTON
1
(City or Town)
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
M R-302 1
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk
(County)
Bos ton
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF
Boston
(City or town making return) ...
1019
30
Registered No.
[(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.)
16 North Ave.
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death ............ years.
.1 .. months.
.days. In place of residence22 ..... years.
.months.
... days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 DATE OF
DEATH
Jan/31/54
8 SEX
9 COLOR OR RACE
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
(write the word)
Married
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY.
That I attended deceased from
Dec.31
19 ... 53 ....
to
Jan.31 .. , 19.52:
I last saw h .......... alive on
19
death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at.) .... 55A
.m.
INTERVAL BE-
TWEEN ONSET AND DEATH
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
.Month2.6.
Days
If under 24 hours
Hours.
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation :.
Finoman Winthrop
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business:
Fire Dept.
15 Social Security No ....
None
16 BIRTHPLACE (City).
(State or country)
Boston Mass.
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Nicholas Morris
PARENTS
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City).
(State or country)
Ireland
Date of operation.
Was autopsy performed ?... Y.
What test confirmed diagnosis ?..
autopay
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?. If so, specify
No
(Signed) ............. J ... Merks.
M. D.
(Address) ......
Boston Hass
Date .... ] .- 37
winthrop .... Ven-Winthrop Mass
6 Place of Burial or Cremation
(City of Town)
DATE OF BURIAL.
Feb. 3/54
19
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Reynolds Funeral Hom
Winthrop Mass.
ADDRESS
Received and filed
19
(Registrar of City of Town where deceased resided)
A TRUE COPY
V macho
ATTEST:
(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred) Feb.4/54
DATE FILED
19
......
V
25M·10-53-910621
Copies of returns of deaths which occurred in your city or town in case the deceased resided in another city or town at the time after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (See Chap. 46, Sec 12, G. L.) of death should be transmitted on Form R-302 to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased resided as soon as possible,
Due To (c)
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
Bronchopunic .... carcinoma
right unper lobe
Major findings:
Of operations
with widespread metastases
both .... lungs
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
Helen Hayward
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)
Broncho ... pneumonia
with pulmonary congestionAGE6 Years?
ANTE
Due To
and edema, bilateral
CEDENT (b)
CAUSES
Days
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Ann Mccarthy
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
.....
·Ireland ···············......
(State or country)
21
Informant
(Address )
V.A Hospt Records ....
No.
(City or Town)
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Veteran's Adm.Hospt Boston Mass.
John J Morris
1 W #1
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
Winthrop
(a) Residence.
No.
(Usual place of abode)
-
Entered Service 3-7-18 Discharged 6-11-19 Pfc. U S Army 463 rd Aero Squadra
Service No. 10,51292
ORM R-302 1
WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK - THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD
X
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk (County)
Chelsea (City of Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Chelsea
(City or town making return)
6731
No. Chelsea .... Memorial .... Hospital
[(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. ¿ give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME John .David ... Coleman
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No. 101 Johnson Avo
.......
St.
Winthrop Lasa
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
months.3 .days. In place of residence L .. years .......... months .......... days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
That I attended deceased from
Fob.1
1954 ... ,
to.
Fob.3
154
I last saw .. alive on .. 15.4 .. , death is said to have occurred on the date stated above. at 10:300 m. INTERVAL BE- TWEEN ONSET ANO DEATH
Mesenteric thrombosis
3 das
1 da
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? If so, specify (Signed) . Thomas E.Wallace M. D.
Date
2/5/54
.. Holy Cross Holdon,mies(yor Town) 6 Place of Burial or
DATE OF BURIAL.
Feb.6. 1954
19
, DIRECT Richard C.Kirby
ADDRESS 17 Bennington St F. Boston
Received and filed.
MAR 8
00
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
Male
White
9 COLOR OR RACE
10 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED Ti doved
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
11 IF STILLBORN. enter that fact here.
12
AGB .! 7.
Years
Month24.
Days
If under 24 hours
.Hours ... ....
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation :
Mallor
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
Globe Newspaper Co
15 Social Security No .... 010-03-5998
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Boston, Mass
17 NAME OF FATHER Michael J.
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Boston Mass
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER therine Morgan
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Boston, Mass
21 Informant
Mrs . Arthur J. Larivec-siste
(Address)
101 Jelmcon Ave Winthrop
A TRUE COPY
ATTEST:
Graph QLTerrell
(Redist
(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
Fab. 5,1954
19
50m-(e)-10-48-24658
(Usual place of abode) Length of stay: In place of death ........ years. 3 DATE OF DEATH Feb.3,1954 4 I HEREBY CERTIFY, DISEASE OR CONDITION DIRECTLY LEADING TO DEATH (a) ANTE Due To CEDENT (b) Due To (c) (anoperable) OTHER SIGNIFICANT CONDITIONS Major findings: Of operations. What test confirmed diagnosis? (Address Hovere Moss 7 NAME OF Copies of returns of deaths which occurred in your city or town in case the deceased resided in another city or town at the time after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12. G. L.) of death should be transmitted on Form R-302 to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased resided as soon as possible CAUSES Carcinoma of colon
Circulatory collapse
Date of operation
Was autopsy performed?
PARENTS
Registered No.
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
1
6
MAR-8 .
Enlisted Nov.20,1917 Discharged Sept.30,1921 Plumber and fitter 12109892
X
SUFFOLK
(County)
(City or Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City or town making return)
Registered No.
1188
32
Veterans Administration Hospital
[(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
( give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.) 293 Main
Winthrop, Mass.
St.
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
life
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death ............ years ..
months
1
days. In place of residence ..
.......... years.
.months.
.. days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 DATE OF
DEATH
February
5
1954
8 SEX
9 COLOR OR RACE
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Married
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
2/5
19
to
19
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
Catherine
Bridgeman
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
35
AGE
Years
7
.Month's
Days
If under 24 hours
Hours .....
Minutes
ANTE
Due To
bilateral bronchopneumonia-day!
CEDENT (b)
CAUSES
Due Tosuspected beri-beri heart (c)
disease
mos
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
Laennec's Cir mosis
yrs.
Major findings:
Of operations.
Was autopsy performed?
no
What test confirmed diagnosis ?.
clin lab findings
no
(Address) VAH
Date .... 2/6
19 .... 521
6 winthrop Cem
Winthrop, Mass.
Place of Burial or Cremation (City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
Feb 6
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
inthrop, Lass
ADDRESS
Received and filed
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
PARENTS
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
East Boston, Mass
FATHER (City).
(State or country)
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHERMary Meehan
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Hospital Records
.
ATTEST: Parles A. Macs
(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred) Feb 9 54
DATE FILED
......... ........
19 X
WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK - THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD
Copies of returns of deaths which occurred in your city or town in case the deceased resided in another city or town at the time after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (See Chap. 46, Sec 12, G. L.) of death should be transmitted on Form R-302 to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased resided as soon as possible,
25M-10-53-910621
PLACE OF DEATH
No.
GEORGE LAUNDRY, JR.
WW II
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
(write the word)
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
ThatL'attended deceased from
54
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
Hast saw !.............. alive on.
19. death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above. at ..
8:40p
.m.
DISEASE OR CONDITION DIRECTLY LEADING
TO DEATH (a)
acute pulmonary edema
INTERVAL BE-
TWEEN ONSET
AND DEATH
hrs
13 Usual
Occupation :
Painter
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business:
15 Social Security No.
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
East Boston, Mass
17 NAME OF
FATHER
George Laundry
Date of operation
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
If so, specify ........ Kaufman
(Signed).
M. D.
Woburn, Mass.
21
Informant.
(Address)
A TRUE COPY
WKirby
M R-302 1
DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE - 6/3/43
# # DISCHARGE
11/11/45
RANK , RATING
MM 3/c
ORGANIZATION & OUTFIT US Navy
SERVICE NUMBER
8019902
F
6
FEBA
R-301A 1
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.
33
2 FULL NAME
Winfield Scott Burrill
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
12 Sunset Road
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death
......
.years
months. days. In place of residence. 5.0 years. .. months. .days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 DATE OF
DEATH
FEBRUARY 6 (Month)
(Day)
1954. (Year)
8 SEX
Male
9 COLOR OR RACE
White
10 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCEDowed
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deceased from
to
Feb. 6
1954
I last saw halive on.
FEB.
6
954
death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at.
9:30 A.
.. m.
INTERVAL BE-
TWEEN ONSET AND DEATH 11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
3 years
12
AGE7.6
Years
Months
Days
If under 24 hours
Hours
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation:
Engineer
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business:
Marine
15 Social Security No.
021-14-1108
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
WinthropMa's's
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Winfield Burrill
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
Winthrop
(State or country)
Mass
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Cannot be learned
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Cannot be learned
21
Informant
(Address)
12 Sunset Road Winthrop
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: W.G. Raken
(Signature of Agertt ot Board of Health or other)
Hro
2/8/54
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)
50M-3-53-909098
ADDRESS
FARO 0 1334
Received and filed
19
(Registrar)
10a If married, wid~"
1
HUSBAND of.
Katherine Butler
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
DISEASE OR CONDITION
DIRECTLY LEADING
(a) arteriosclertic+ hyper-
TO DEATH
tereiE beat dessins
ANTE
Due To
CEDENT (b)
CAUSES
Due To (c)
ACUTE AgregarNE Chuclears TiTia
aceite gangerans
2 days
Major findings:
acute govequenous cholecystitis
Of operations
Date of operation.
FEB. 4. 1954
.. Was autopsy performed?
yes
What test confirmed diagnosis? Clinical + Laboratory
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?......
If so, specify.
(Signed) Maurice Trausciti
(Address) S62 Cheily St. Withog Date
M. D.
OFER. 6 1054
Winthrop
Winthrop (City of Town)
6 Place of Burial or Cremation
DATE OF BURIAL
February
9
19.5.4
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Winthrop Mass,
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)
UCTIONS OR CERTIFICATE
iving F DEATH t enter han one or each ) and (c)
oes not mean dying, such ure, asthenia, s the disease, tions which
conditions. ig rise to the (a) staling ying cause
ons contrib- death but not e disease or using death.
1.5.
Winthrop Community Hospital No.
Registered No.
Lillian V Kinsel
PARENTS
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
cholicolitis.
Feb. 17,
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 ath of a person whom he has attended during his last illness, at the request an undertaker or other authorized person or of any member of the family of e deceased, furnish for registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the st of his knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the sease of which he died, defined as required by section one, where same was ntracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive by the physician 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 eceding section or by section forty-five of chapter one hundred and four- en, shall, if the deceased, to the best of his knowledge and belief, served in the my, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been gaged, insert in the certificate a recital to that effect, specifying the war, and all also certify in such certificate both the primary and the secondary or imme- ate cause of death as nearly as he can state the same. For neglect to comply th any provision of this section, such physician or officer, shall forfeit ten dollars. or the purposes of this section and of sections forty-five, forty-six and forty-seven said chapter one hundred and fourteen, the word "war" shall include the China lief expedition and the Philippine insurrection, which shall, for said purposes, be emed to have taken place between February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and nety-eight and July fourth, nineteen hundred and two, and the Mexican border rvice of nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen. . L. Chap. 46, Sec. 10.
No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a human body a town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he is received a permit from the board of health, or its agent appointed to issue ch permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the rson died; and no undertaker or other person shall exhume a human body and move it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomb her than the receiving tomb to another in the same cemetery, until he has ceived a permit from the board of health or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk the town where the body is buried. No such permit shall be issued until there all have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case may be, satisfactory written statement containing the facts required by law to be turned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an original inter- ent, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by w. or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending ysician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early ough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a physician who is a member of the board health, or employed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon plication make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is used by violence, the medical examiner shall make such certificate. If such a ermit for the removal of a human body, not previously interred, from one town another within the commonwealth cannot be obtained early enough for the urpose, the certificate of death made as above provided and in the possession of e undertaker desiring to make such removal shall constitute a permit for such moval; provided, that such body shall be returned to the town from which it was moved within thirty-six hours after such removal, unless a permit in the usual rm 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 he 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, Ģ. 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 he held, or from a person appointed to have the care of the cemetery or burial ground in which the interment is made.
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