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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.5
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
.....
1
R-301A I
CTIONS
ERTIFICATE
Iving F DEATH : enter
or each 1) and (c)
dying. Pert failure.
of compli. lich caused
rise to (a). under- last.
a, contrib. at& but mot P'he terminal Ifition tiers
Chapter 137, 54, requires i to print er cause of death ** Idcates.
SOM-5-57-920343
-
SUFFOLE (County)
BOSTON (City or Town)
The Commonwealth of Mussarlugrtt#T - OF - TOWN 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. 87
Registered Nn.
St. (give its NAME, instead of street and number) No. MASSACHUSETTS_GENERAL HOSPITAL
2 FULL NAME PHILIP. SMITH
(If ceceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.) MAYFLOWER REST HOME 39 GROVERS AVE
Sı.
WINTHROP, MASS.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
40
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
9 COLOR
rite
IO SINGLE (write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
DIVORCED /1-0806
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
AGE
C
Years .
Months.
Days
If under 24 hours
Ilours Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation :
Shing Officer
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business :
Pinger
15 Social Security No ... 22-17:
16 BIRTHPLACE (City) = LOV 4.006011 (State or country)
17 NAME OF
FATIIER
Storten Sith
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
Call to Stain
(State or country)
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTIIER (City)
(State or country)
21
Informant
(Address)
Recome Cinho Areista
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was fled with me BEFOREThe burial or transit permit was Issued :
(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
5579
(Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit)
V
3 DATE OF
DEATH
JANUARY
6
1958
(Year)
(Month)
(Day)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY.
That/Cattended deceased from
58
195
Wdast saw himalive on
Jan. 6,
.. 19 58
, death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at ....
3:45P
m.
INTERVAL
BETWEEN
DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE
ONSET AND
(a) urania + septicemia
DEATH
zda.
Due To doNephritis I peri- (b) -.
Nachric abscess
I mo.
(c)
NEXTURI __
Benign Prostatic
Haport phy
OTIIEN
SIGNIFICANT Fractive & Repair CONDITIONS 5- Right Hip
2 mo.
Was autopsy performed?
What test confirmed diagnosis?
L'autoing
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased Wo If so, specify .
(Signed)
(Address) Asst. Dir. Mass. Gemil
, M. D.
1/6/
158
6 Place of Burial or Cremation
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
19 55
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
ADDRESS
Received speed Charles H Mackie
2 , 1958
PLACE OF DEATH
f(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
0
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
Dec. 30,
. . 19 57 .. ..
Jan. 6,
10 YRS
PARENTS
to stain
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( C 1 - - € S
5 1 1 € T
1 ¢ ( 1 1 1
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A TRUE COPY ATTEST: Charles it Mackie City Registrar
RECEIVE.
MAY 2 01953 /
R-301A -
CTIONS
ERTIFICATE
iving F DEATH
enter Jan one or each ) and (c)
of dring. art failure.
or rompli- ich caused
. if any. 's rise to (.). " under- last.
w, rontri ath but not the terminal lition giers
Chapter 137, 54, requires i to print er cause or death oti locates.
SOM-5-57-920345
Jurisdiction Waived
Suffolk (County)
Boston
(City or Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
OUTTONOF - TOWN with Board of Health or Its Agent. 01461. Registered No.
New England Deaconess Hospital
[ (If death occurred in a hospital or ins tation,
St. (give its NAME. instead of street and number)
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
:1
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX : al
9 COLOR
10 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(llushand's name in full)
11 IF.STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
63
2
1.4
Months
23
Day*
If under 24 hours
Hlours
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation :
1'
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business :
15 Social Security No. V.( -
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
17 NAME OF
FATIIER
18 BIRTIIPLACE OF FATIIER (City) (State or country)
n.
19 MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country )
-
21 Informant (Address)
T
'no.i
1
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard ce tificate of death mac Donald Ansit permit was issued :
(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
6137
2-11-54
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)
1958
February
9
1958
(Year)
(Month) (Day)
4I HEREBY CERTIFY. That I attended deceased from
February 9 . 19 58.
February 2.
. 1958
February 9
58
I last saw himalive on
.19
, death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
6:30 P. m.
DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE
Acute Myocardial Infarction
(a)
Due To (b)
+20.1
Due To
Coronary Heart Disease
(c)
OTIIF.R
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
Diabetes Mellitus
9 yrs.
Was autopsy performed ?
Yes
What test confirmed diagnosis? Autopsy
S Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? No If so. specify Robert F. Bradley, !!. D.
(Signed)
Robert F. Bradley
. M. D
(Address 15 Joslinked, Boston- Date Feb. 10 1958
6 Place of Burial or Cremation
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL 19
7 NAME OF
ADDRESS
FEB 1 3 1550
Received and filed
A. nacke
(Registrar)
PLACE OF DEATH
No.
2 FULL NAME (If deceasedis
Clement Wood
married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No.
xx
Winthrop,
Mass.
58 Harbor View Ave.,
(Usual place of ahode)
8 hours, 15 minutes
Length of stay: In place of death
years
months
days. In place of residence-'.
years ........ months
days.
3 DATE OF
DEATII
INTERVAL BETWEEN ONSET AND DEATN 11hrs.
4 yrs.
PARENTS
A TRUE COPY ATTEST: Charles it Mackie City Registrar
RECEIVE
1
MAY 2 01950 7
at the time of death should be transmitted on Form R-302 to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased Copies of returns of deaths which occurred in your city or town in case the deceased resided in another city or town resided as soon as possible, after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (See Chap. 46,, Sec. 12, G. L.)
X
-
Essex
....
(County)
Danvers
(City or Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Danvers
(City or Town making this return)
89
§ (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, No. Danvers State Hospital, Hathorne St. ( give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME ...... Clarence Lang
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No .. & .... llevoda.S.t. (Usual place of abode)
sinthrop
American
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death years 10 months 2 days. In place of residence.
........... years.
......
months ..
......
.days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 DATE OF
DEATH
April 7, 1958
(Day)
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deceased from
Hay 14,
19 ..
5.7 to ... App.
I last saw fan alive on Apr ..
7,
19.58, death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at m.
DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE
(a) Arteriosclerotic Heart
Disease
Yrs.
-
osis
Due To
(c)
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
Bronchopneumonia-
Days
Was autopsy performed ?.... 11O
What test confirmed diagnosis?
Clinical & Lab.
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? If so, specify.
(Signed).Andrew Hichols III
M. D.
(Address) inthorne, dass
.. Date.
4/7 19 ... 58
6 St ...... Paul's
Arlington, ..... lass ..
Place of Burial or Cremation
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
April .... 11,
19.5.8
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR Walking & Shaw
ADDRESS
Arlington ... Mass.
Received and filed
MAY 19:
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
9 COLOR
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORERDried
Male
White
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of.
.
2. Fannie Itzkowtz
(Husband's name in full)
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
AGES
Years ..
8
Months28.
.Days
If under 24 hours
Hours.
.Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation :
Retired
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business :
15 Social Security No ..
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Cleveland
thio
17 NAME OF
FATHER
John B. Lang
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
Cleveland
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Ohio
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Clara flyers
20 BIRTIIPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
Canton
(State or country)
Ohio
21
Informaı
Mary 1. Sheehan
(Address)
Hathorne, Hass.
A TRUE COPY
Daniel J. Toomey
ATTEST:
(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
Apr ..
15.,
19
58
25M-8-56-918227
PLACE OF DEATH
R-302 1
Registered No.
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)Spanish.
(write the word)
1(Month)
19%.8 ....
INTERVAL BETWEEN ONSET AND DEATH
Due To
Generalized Arterioscle
(b)
PARENTS
.817
X
Essex
(County)
Danvers
(City or Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF MEDICAL EXAMINER'S CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Danvers
(City or town making return)
Registered No ..
00
St. [ give its NAME instead of street and number) No.
Louise Gatti
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
87 Quincy Rd.,
Winthrop, Mass.
St.
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode) 4
10
21
(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
April
20,
1958
(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.) Generalized Arteriosclerosis
Fractured L. Hip
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
9 SEX
Female
10 COLOR OR RACE
White
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Single
11a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of.
(Husband's name in full)
12 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
86
9
?
If under 24 hours
Hours.
Minutes
14 Usual
Occupation:
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
15 Industry
or Business:
Unknown
16 Social Security No.
Boston
17 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Mass.
18 NAME OF
FATHER
John Catti
19 BIRTHPLACE OF
Unknown
FATHER (City).
Italy
(State or country)
20 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Mary Borne
21 BIRTHPLACE OF
Unknown
MOTHER (City)
Italy
Old Calvary Cemetery,
Doston
(State or country)
May
Sheehan
22
Informantathorne,
(Address)
ass.
A TRUE COPY.
Jamel J. Toomey
ATTEST:
(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
April 28, 1958
19
X
3 DATE OF
DEATH
Injury
Nature 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-305 to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased resided as soon as possible
Injury occur?
accident
5 Accident, suicide, or homicide (specify)
Date and hour of injury.
7 am. / 3/25/
1058
Where did
Danvers
(City or town and State)
Did injury occur in or about home, on farm, in industrial place, or in public
place?
State Hospital
slipped on ward
(How did injury occur?)
Injury
as above
While at work?
Was autopsy performed?
no
6 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? If so, specify ..
(Signed)
Ralph P. Mccarthy
(Address)
Peabody, "ass.
Date.
1/21/38D.
19
7 Place of Burial, or Cremation, (City or Town) 58
DATE OF BURIAL pril 24,
8 NAME OF
Arthur Porcella
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Boston, Mass.
ADDRESS
Received and filed
MAY 13 1958
19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
PARENTS
25m-(h)-10-48-24658
PLACE OF DEATH
I R-305 1
Danvers State Hospital, Hathorne,
J(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
Mass .
2 FULL NAME.
(Was deceased a NO
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
11 SINGLE
(write the word)
13
AGE
Years
Months.
Days
Unable to work
(Specify type of place)
MAY 13.5 M
X
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk (County)
Winthrop (City or Town)
Boston 6-6-58
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.
1
2 FULL NAME Bunice A. Harvey
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
15 Hillcrest St
St. West Roxbury ...
Mas.s.
(If nonresident; give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death
.... years
months.
4
.days. In place of residence.
ears.
months.
days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 DATE OF
DEATH
MAY
1
1958
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY
NOVEMBER/1949
to
APRIL
30
That I attended deceased from
58
I last saw heralive on
APRIL
30, 1950, death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
11,50 17 am.
DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE
BRONCHIAL PNEUMONIA
(a)
INTERVAL BETWEEN ONSET AND DEATH 4 LYS
Due To CEREREBRAL HEMORRHAGE (b)
40ys
LEFT FLACCIE HEMIPLEGIA
(c) Due To GENERALIZED ARTERIOSCLEROSIS
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
VARICOSITIES LOWER EXTREM
Was autopsy performed?
No
What test confirmed diagnosis?
CLINICAL OBSERVATION
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? NO
1f so, specify ...
Auroli Musquarz
(Signed)
M. D.
623 BEACH ST, REVERGOLL 5-1
158
(Address)
PURITAN LAWN 6 Place of Burial or Cremation (City or Town)
PEABODY
DATE OF BURIAL MAY 5 1958
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTORY. E. MURRAY
ADDRESS
54
ROX BURY ST. ROXBURY
Received and filed MAY 1- 1958 19
(Registrar)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX F
9 COLOR
W
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
W.
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
GEORGE L. HARVEY
(Husband's name in full)
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
AGE
64 Years.
Months ..
.Days
If under 24 hours
Hours ....
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation :
HOUSE WIFE
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business:
AT
HOME
15 Social Security No.
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
1/1ASS
17 NAME OF
FATHER
ALBERT J. BROWN
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
MAINE
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
MARY L. HURD
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
MAINE
Informant
(Address)
21
GEORGE L. HARVEY
139 OTIS ST REVERE
I 11EREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued : Talal- )- Ire anne (Signature of Agent of Board of llealth or other)
5/1/58
(Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of l'ermit)
X
-301A 1
TIDNS
TIFICATE
ing DEATH enter n one each and (c)
not mean of dying, t failure, It means or compli- h caused
if any, rise to e
-
(a), under- last.
contrib- h but not terminal ion given
apter 137, requires o print or cause or death on
cates.
50M-5-57-920345
No. Winthrop Community Hospital
[(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)
AORTIC REGURENTATION
Revere
PARENTS
Registered No.
(write the word)
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 deccased, 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 seventecn. 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 casc 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 sooncr 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 of 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 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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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 1 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 deathsonly 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 electricalagents, 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.
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