Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1956, Part 25

Author: Winthrop (Mass.)
Publication date: 1956
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 534


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No. Leon W. Cook


(Was deceased a


U. S. War Veteran,


No


if so specify WAR)


(a) Residence. No .. (Usual place of abode)


days. In place of residence .years.


5:00 P


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PARENTS


m/s.


RECEIVED


TOWN


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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-305 to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased resided as soon as possible


X PLACE OF DEATH


Suffolk


(County)


Bost m


(City or Town) Mass .General Hospt.


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


Bosta


(City or town making return)


1738


61


Registered No.


[(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. { give its NAME instead of street and number)


Sidney Fisher


2 FULL NAME


(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)


49 Pico Ave.


Winthrop


Mas 9.


(a) Residence. No. (Usual place of abode)


40


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


Length of stay: In place of death


years.


11


... months.


days. In place of residence.


.years.


months.


days.


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 DATE OF


DEATH


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


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.) Thermal burns arterio sclerotic


11a If married, widowed, or Branche E Darge


HUSBAND of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of.


(Husband's name in full)


12 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


78


13


AGE


Years.


Months.


Days


If under 24 hours


Hours.


Minutes


14 Usual


Occupation:


(Kind of work done during most of working life)


15 Industry


or Business:


010-10-6249


16 Social Security No ..


Canada


17 BIRTHPLACE (City).


(State or country)


Edmund C Fisher


18 NAME OF FATHER


19 BIRTHPLACE OF


England


FATHER (City) (State or country)


20 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


21 BIRTHPLACE OF


England


1956 .... MOTHER (City) (State or country)


I Marshall


22 Informant. (Address)


A TRUE COPY.


ATTEST:


(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)


Feb. 27/56


DATE FILED


19


(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


9 SEX


M


10 COLOR OR RACE


11 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED Widowed


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


hea.r.t .. disease


accident.


Feb. 6, 1956 at Winthrop Home


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


Accidental Confiagration of


Injury


(How did injury occur?)


Nature of


clothing


Injury


While at work?


Was autopsy performed?


No


6 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? If so, specify.


(Signed)


Michael A Luongo


M. D.


(Address)


25 Shattuck St.


Date


2-18


Winthrop Cem-Winthrop Mass.


7


Place of Burial, or Cremation.


Feb. 21/56ity or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL .19


8 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


A J O'Maley


ADDRESS


Winthrop Mass


Received and filed


MAY 4 3956


19


25m-(c)-11-49-900.475


3


ORM R-305 1


WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK - THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD


PARENTS


Margaret A McInnes


Retired


Consulting Engineer


(Specify type of place)


St.


(Was deceased a


U. S. War Veteran,


if so specify WAR)


Feb. 18/56


No.


11.5.


RECEIVED


OF TOW


11 12


. .


.....


6 5


THROP.


MAY *** * AM


4


X


PLACE OF DEATH


SUFFOLK BOSTONJ


(City or Town)


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


DOSTON


(City or Town making this return)


Registered No.


1827


62


§(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, Veterans Administration Hospital st. ( give its NAME instead of street and number) No.


2 FULL NAME Hector .D.L'anning


(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)


100 Waltham


St.


Woburn.


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


Length of stay: In place of death ........... years.


2 .... months.1.2


14 years.


.days. In place of residence.


months.


.days.


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


8 SEX


9 COLOR


10 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED WIDOWED or DIVORCED Married


10a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of Dorothy Douglas


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of.


(Husband's name in full)


11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


12


AGE60


Years


8 ...


Months ..... 9 ... Days


If under 24 hours


Hours ........ Minutes


13 L'sual


Occupation :


Electrical Craneman


(Kind of work done during most of working life)


14 Industry or Business : Factory


In


15 Social Security No ._


018-20-5378


16 BIRTHPLACE (City)


New Lisbon


(State or country)


Indiana


OTHER SIGNIFICANT CONDITIONS


Was autopsy performed?


Ye


What test confirmed diagnosis?


Autopsy


5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?....... O. If so, specify


(Signed) Joseph R. Rubini M. D.


(Address)


VA Hospital Boston 2-21


19


56


6 Winthrop Cemetery Winthrop Mass Place of Burial or Cremation (City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL .. Feb. 23 1956 19


7 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR Reynolds Funeral Home


ADDRESS 180 .Winthrop St Winthrop, AtTEST:


Received and filed. MAY 7 1956 19 .. Feb


28. 1956


DATE FILED.


19


(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


PARENTS


18 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City) (State or country) Pennsylvania


19 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER Mame A. Gibbs


20 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City). (State or country) Indiana


21 VA Hospital Records


Informant


(Address)


150 S. Huntington Ave. Boston


A TRUE COPY;


30


50M-11-55.916145


(Month)


Feb. 21 (Day)


1956


4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,


That I attended deceased from Deo. 9, 1955, to ... Feb.21 19.56. 19 ., death is said to


have occurred on the date stated above, at 12:05 A.m.


DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE


(a) Adenocarcinoma left lung ... with extensive motestases, che abdomen and spine (b)


INTERVAL BETWEEN ONSET AND DEATH


3 Mos


Copies of returns of deaths which occurred in your city or town in case the deceased resided in another city or town Due To (c) resided as soon as possible, after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (See Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.) at the time of death should be transmitted on Form R-302 to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased


R-302 1


3 DATE OF


DEATH


(a) Residence. No ... (Usual place of abode)


(Was deceased a


U. S. War Veteran,


if so specify WAR) ........ I


(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)


17 NAME OF FATHER J. G. Manning


RECEIVED


TOW


-


MAY == ''


8-26-14 7- 2-19 Private Army 1403979


ORM R-305 1


PLACE OF DEATH


Essex


(County)


Topsfield


(City or Town)


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


Topsfield


(City or town making return)


Registered No.


63


j(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. [ give its NAME instead of street and number)


2 FULL NAME


Peter J. Gaffney


(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)


(a) Residence. No.


16 Washington


St.


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


Length of stay: In place of death.


......


... years


35


.months


days. In place of residence.


........... years.


months.


.days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


9 SEX


Male


10 COLOR OR RACE


White


11 SINGLE


MARRIED


(write the word)


3 DATE OMarch 13 (see below ) 1956


DEATH


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


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.)


Unknown but natural causes -- left boarding place Jan. 14, 1956


11a If married, widowed, er divorced


Sarah


Marshall


HUSBAND of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of


(Husband's name in full)


12 IF STILLBORN. enter that fact here.


13


AGE.


78


Years


Months.


Days


If under 24 hours


Hours


.Minutes


14 Usual


Occupation:


Soap Business


(Kind of work done during most of working life)


15 Industry


or Business:


Retired


16 Social Security No. -


17 BIRTHPLACE (City).


(State or country)


Mass


18 NAME OF


FATHER


Michael Gaffney


19 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


(State or country)


Ireland


20 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Bridget Quinn


21 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


Ireland


22


Paul Gaffney


Informant


(Address) 16 Thornton Park Winthrop


A TRUE COPY.'


ATTEST:


(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)


DATE FILED


March 14


19.5.6


.......


V.B V


......


(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


PARENTS


6 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?..... O If so, specify


(Signed)


E. S. Bagnall


M. D.


(Address) 28 Main, Groveland Date


3/14 1956


Winthrop


Winthrop


7 Place of Burial, or Cremation.


(City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL.


March 16


19 56


8 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


J. J. Currane


ADDRESS


Broadway


Everett


19


Received and filed. 1


WRITE PLAINLY, WITH UNFADING BLACK INK - THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD


Injury 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-305 to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased resided as soon as possible Injury


5 Accident, suicide, or homicide (specify)


NO


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?


(Specify type of place)


Manner of


(How did injury occur?)


Nature of


While at work?


Was autopsy performed?


25m-(c)-11-49-900.475


No.


(Was deceased a


U. S. War Veteran,


if so specify WAR)


Winthrop


(Usual place of abode)


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


WIDOWEDWidowed


or DIVORCED


Chelsea


RECEIVED


TOW


11 12


.


G


:11


6 5


HROP


APR11


PLACE OF DEATH /


Plymouth


(County) East Pri gewater


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


Est Bridgewater (City or town making return)


Registered No.


§(If death occurred in a hospital or institution. St. ¿ give its NAME instead of street and number)


2 FULL NAME Walter Hyatt Cove


(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.


95


Fremont St


(Usual place of abode)


St.


Winthrop Wass


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


Length of stay: In place of death


.years


.. months.


.days. In place of residence.


74years


months.


.days.


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


8 SEX


M


9 COLOR OR RACE


10 SINGLE


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


S


(write the word)


DEATH


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


4 I HEREBY CERTIFY.


Jan 21 56


L


19


to


Mar


13 56


death is said to


have occurred on the date stated above, at


TWEEN ONSET AND DEATH


11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


12


AGECHT


Years 7 Monthy 2


.. Days


If under 24 hours


Hours


Minutes


13 Usual


Occupation:


Retired .... Salesman


(Kind of work done during most of working life)


14 Industry


or Business:


Wholesale .... Milinary .... Suppli@


15 Social Security No.Malta .... Illinios


16 BIRTHPLACE (City) (State or country)


17 NAME OF


FATHER


James Andrew Gowo


18 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


(State or country)


Lubec Mai ne


19 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Adeline Cogçin


20 BIRTHPLACE OF


Lubec Maine


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


21 Gerturde G Brown


Informant


(Address)


301 Wash St E. Bridgewater


A TRUE COPY


ATTEST: D· (Rentrer of City od Town where death occurred)


Chairman


3/75636


DATE FILED ....


200


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.(B) 11-51-905807


6


Place of Burial or Cremation (City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL


Mar 16 1956 19


7 NAME OP


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


Alfred B Marsh


ADDRESS


Winthrop


Mass


Received and filed


March 18-1956


19


APR.2.3.1956


(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


PARENTS


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 HATy Thrombosis


8 wks


ANIEtduibsclerotie Heart


Dicusise with Angina


Due To (c)


OTHER


SIGNIFICANT


CONDITIONS


Major findings:


Of operations


no


EKG


Date of operation. Was autopsy performed? no. What test confirmed diagnosis?


5 Was disease or. Gren ady way relhedtokupation of deceased? if so, specito Park Ave Whitman Mass (Signed) (Address) Date winthrop Cem


M. D.


19


winthrop Mass


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 :


ORM R-302 1


(City or Town) 30% Washington st


No.


2


3 DATE OF


March 13 1956


im


I last saw h


alive oñ.


11.30 PM


m.


INTERVAL BE-


That I attended, deceased from


Mar 13


56


19


VBV


19 .....


1.5


RECEIVED


OF


TOW;


7


9


8


.....


5


6


RO


APR23 AM


R-302 1


X - PLACE OF DEATH


Middlesex


(County)


Cambridge


(City or Town)


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


(chemaridito naming this return)


5085


§ (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.)


(a) Residence. No .. 30 Coral Ave.


Winthrop,


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


Length of stay: In place of death ............ years.


months.


25


1


days. In place of residence.


years.


months.


......... days.


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


3 DATE OF


April 3, 1956


(Month) (Year)


(Day)


4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,


That I attended deceased from


Dec. 31


19


5% to April 3


19


54


I last saw h Give on


April 2, 19 50 death is said to


8:00A


have occurred on the date stated above, at m.


DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE Post Infectious Cirrhosis of Liver


INTERVAL BETWEEN ONSET AND DEATH


11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


12 AG 59


5yrs


Years


1 Months.


1bays


If under 24 hours


Hours ........ Minutes


Housework


13 Usual


Occupation :


(Kind of work done during most of working life)


14 Industry


Own home


or Business :


None


16 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Boston


17 NAME OF FATHER James Campbell


PARENTS


18 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City).


Cannot be learned


(State or country)


N.S.


19 MAIDEN NAME,


Emma Johnson


OF MOTHER


20 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country )


Mass


21 Mr. Lester J. Cummings


Informant


Addr 26 River Front, Newbury, Hass


& TRUE COPY


Frederick H. Bus


ATTEST:


(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)


Received and filed.


MAY 3 1958


19


(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


8 SEX


Female


White


9 COLOR


10 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


Married


10a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of


Lester J. Cummings


(Husband's name in full)


DEATH (a) Due To (1)) Due To (c) 6 resided as soon as possible, after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (Sce Chap. 46, Sec. 12, G. L.) Copies of returns of deaths which occurred in your city or town in case the deceased resided in another city or town OTHER SIGNIFICANT CONDITIONS at the time of death should be transmitted on Form R.302 to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased


Was autopsy performed? Yes


What test confirmed diagnosis ?. Autopsy


5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? If so, specify


(Signed)


Albert 0.


Serler


M. D.


(Address)


Craigie St.


4/3


Date


19


58


Hamilton Provincetown


Place of Burial or Cremation (City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL April 7, 1956 19


7 NAME OF FUNERAL DIRECTOR J. H. Richardson & So


ADDRESS 424 Washington St., Dorc.


50M -11-55.916145


No ..


Mount Auburn Hospital


Barbara Cummings


¿ ¿ Was deceased a


U. S. War Veteran,


if so specify WAR)


Hass .


(Usual place of abode)


St


Registered No.


Provincetown


DATE FILED


April 4, 1956


19


X


15 Social Security No ..


RECEIVED


TOW.


11 12


1


5


0


THROP


MAY - 3


X PLACE OF DEATH


Suffolk . (County) Winthrop


(City or Town)


919 Shirley


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH Street


To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.


S(If death occurred in a hospital or institution., St. { give its NAME instead of street and number) No.


2 FULL NAME Almedia F Hichborn


(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)


(a) Residence.


No.


919 Shirley St


St.


40


(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.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


8 SEX


9 COLOR


Female


White


10 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCEDIngle


10a If married, widowed, or divorced


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


86


8


AGE


Years.


Months.


8


Days®


If


under 24 hours


Hours ........ Minutes


13 Usual


Occupation :


Stenographer


(retired )


(Kind of work done during most of working life)


14 Industry


Wool Co.


or Business :


15 Social Security No


None


16 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Mass


17 NAME OF FATHER Henry G Hichborn


18 BIRTHPLACE OF


Boston


FATHER (City).


(State or country)


Mass


19 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Almedia Hopkins


20 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


Madeleine


Cronin


(Address) 54 Temple St Boston Magy


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued:


(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)


Received and filed.


PAPR 9 1956


19


(Day)


4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,


That I attended deceased from


APRIL 3


56


to ..


APRIL 5


1956


I last saw heralive on


APRIL 4


1956, death is said to


have occurred on the date stated above, at


10:05 Am.


DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE


(a)


BRONCHO PNEUMONIA


INTERVAL BETWEEN ONSET ANO DEATH


4 DAYS


Due To (b)


Due To (c)


OTHER


SIGNIFICANT


CONDITIONS


HYPERTENSIVE HEART DISEASE


Was autopsy performed?


What test confirmed diagnosis?


No


5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? No If so, specify.


(Signed) Dorothy Cheney appleton M. D.


(Address). 197 Woodside ave Date 4/7 1956


6


Place of Burial or Cremation


(City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL.


April 9


56


.19


7 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR.


ADDRESS


100M-11-55.916:45


R-301A 1


caribien Si. C.1


5


RUCTIONS FOR . CERTIFICATE


giving OF DEATH not enter than one e for each (b) and (c)


does not mean de of dying, heart failure, etc. It means se, or compli- which caused


ions, if any, gave rise to cause (a), the under- cause last.


itions contrib- death but not to the terminal condition given


:- Chapter 137, 1954, requires ans to print or the cause or of death on certificates.


PARENTS


Registered No.


PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT


(Was deceased a


U. S. War Veteran,


if so specify WAR)


66


(Usual place of abode)


1


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


3 DATE OF


DEATH


(Month)


APRIL


5


1956


(Year)


(Registrar)


(Official Designation )


(Date of Issue of Permit)


LEV


Mass


21 Informant.


Boston Mass


Woodlawn


Jerthorp, Mars Everett


Boston


HYPERTENSION


5 years


-


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- te n, 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.




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