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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 s 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 hysician, 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 f health, or employed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon pplication make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is aused 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 he undertaker desiring to make such removal shall constitute a permit for such emoval; provided, that such body shall be returned to the town from which it was emoved within thirty-six hours after such removal unless a permit in the usual orm 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 shatt bury a human body or the ashes thereof which have been brought into the commonstealth until he has received a permit so to do from the board of health or its quent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the darkif the town where the body is to be buried or the funeral is to be held, or from a fisch appointed to have the care of the cemetery or burial ground in which the inteement is made.
Chap. 114, Sec. 46. G. D. Tercentenary Edition).
ES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purposeof' i tage langcalls for the observance of the follow- ing rules of practice: (1) Attending physicians fert 6 to sackdeaths only as those of persons to whom they have given bedside car Nest illness from disease unrelated to any form of injury.
(2) Board of Health physicianeu
all 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 YA 1959 AM (3) Medical Examiners w 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
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk (County)
Winthrop (City or Town)
mealsver 1.1 - 17-7
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.
No. Bay View Nursing Home
f(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
St. [give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
Sarah E. Hazlett (LcGeorge )
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No.
461 Old Colony Blvd.
St.
Boston, Mass.
(Usual place of abode)
Length of stay: In place of death .....__ years.
$ 2
months
days. In place of residence
years
months _..
days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 DATE OF
DEATH
May
11
1959
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deceased from
19
56
to ...
no
11
1959
I last saw heralive on
may
11
1959, death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
6sp.
m.
DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE
(a)
Congestive heart failure
CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE
Due To
arteriosclerosis
(b)
ARTERIOSCLEROSIS
Due To (c)
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
malnutrition from dumping
CONDITIONS Syndrome after gastrectomy
Was autopsy performed?
What test confirmed diagnosis ?...
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?
If so, specifyno
(Signed).
Hobbienfuld
M. D.
(Address) w.
443 Shirley StD
Date
5-18
1959
Cambridge Cemetery Cambridge, Mass (State or country)
6
Place of Burial or Cremation
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
May 14 1959.
19
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
alfred B. March
ADDRESS
174 Winthrop-St. Winthrop, Mass.
Received and filed
MAY 13-1959
19
(Registrar)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
9 COLOR
10 SINGLE
(write the word)
female
white
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
widowed
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of.
William 4. Hazlett
(Husband's name in full)
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
AGE
66
If under 24 hours
„Hours ....... Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation :
housework
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business:
own home
15 Social Security No ...
none
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Lass.
17 NAME OF
FATHER
William McGeorge
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
Boston
(State or country)
Mass
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Ellen Moynihan
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
Boston
Hass
,21
Informant
Edward A. Hazlett
(Address)
36 Centre St. Winthrop
I HEREBY CERTIFY thata satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: Haller C. Yeriangy (Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
Thatthe Officer
5/13/59
(Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit)
CTIONS R ERTIFICATE
ving ? DEATH enter an one ır each and (c)
not mean of dying, art failure, It means or compli- ch caused
if any, rise to se (a). under- last.
is contrib- Ah but not e terminal ation given
apter 137, , requires o print or cause death on t cates.
50M-1-58-921876
R-301A 1
Registered No.
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
45
INTERVAL
BETWEEN
ONSET AND
DEATH
1 year
Years
6
Months
20Days
Boston
PARENTS
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
physician or registered hospital medical officer shall forthwith, after the th 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 deceased, furnish for registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the t of his knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the ease of which he died. defined as required by section one, where same was tracted, 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 ceding section or by section forty-five of chapter one hundred and four- n, shall, if the deceased, to the best of his knowledge and belief. served in the ny, 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 ll also certify in such certificate both the primary and the secondary or imme- te cause of death as nearly as he can state the same. For neglect to comply h any provision of this section, such physician or officer, shall forfeit ten dollars. r 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 ief expedition and the Philippine insurrection, which shall, for said purposes, be med to have taken place between February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ety-eight and July fourth, nineteen hundred and two, and the Mexican border vice 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 s 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 emoved within thirty-six hours after such removal, unless a permit in the usual orm 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, fromnithe 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 physician 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 revent medical attendance or whose physician is absent from home when the certifrate 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
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.) at the time of death should be transmitted on Form R-302 to the clerk of the city or town in which the deceased
PLACE OF DEATH
Middle sex
(County)
Malden
(City or Town)
No Malden Hospt.
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Malden
(City or Town making this return)
Registered No.
{(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. ¿ give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
..... Mahoney
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a)
Residence. No ...
83 Somerset Ave.
St
Winthrop
(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
3 DATE OF
DEATH
May 14, 1959
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
attended deceased, from
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I
May 14
59
May 14
59
I last saw h ........ alive on
19
death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
m.
DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE
(a)
Anencephaly
Due To (1))
Due To (c)
OTHER
Prematurity
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
Was autopsy performed? What test confirmed diagnosis?
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? If so, specify
(Signed).
Edward A.Mccarthy
M. D.
(Address)
86 Forest St. Medford 5/1/1/59
Date
Winthrop 6
Winthrop
Place of Burial or Cremation DATE OF BURIAL ay 19,
7 NAME OF
Arthur J. 0'Maley
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
ADDRESS Winthrop, Mass.
Received and filed JUN 3 1803 19
(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
9 COLOR
White
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED,
or DIVORGEIngle
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 hStillborn
12
AGE
Years.
Months ............
.Days
If
under 24 hours
Hours ........ Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation :
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry or Business:
15 Social Security No.
16 BIRTHPLACE (City). (State or country) Mass.
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Eugene Mahoney
18 BIRTHPLACE
Cambridge
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
"Mass
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Marion Ford
Boston 20 BIRTHPLACE OF Mass. MOTHER (City). (State or country) Eugene Mahoney 83 Somerset Ave. Winthrop
21 Informant.
A TRUE COPY
ATTEST: (Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)
DATE FILED
May 21 1959
19
×
(write the word)
Male
19
to.
...
INTERVAL
BETWEEN
ONSET AND
DEATH
.
25M-8-58-918227
Malden
PARENTS
(City or Town) 59
[ R-302 1
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
(Usual place of abode)
RECEIVED
31.12 1
-
JUN :: 31959 AM
-301A 1
ITIONS
ITIFICATE ing DEATH enter n one each and (c)
not mean of
dying, t failure, It means or compli- caused
if any, rise to €
(a), under- last.
pter 137, requires print or ause or
eath on
ates.
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.
J (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. [give its NAME instead of street and number) No. 117 Hermon St.
2 FULL NAME.
Peter Paul Pavlik
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No.
117 Hermon St.
St
17
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of deathLE
years.
months
days. In place of residencel. 2 years.
months.
days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 DATE OF
DEATH
MAY
(Month)
16
(Day)
1959
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
4/21
1955,
to
5/16
كركور
I last saw h/Malive on
5/16
1957
, death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
740P.
m.
INTERVAL
BETWEEN
ONSET AND
DEATH
10 MIN
1 mc.
Due To
HYPERTENSIVE HEART DIS
(b) + ARTERIOSCLERCTIC HEART DIS.
Due To (c)
OTHER SIGNIFICANT CONDITIONS
Was autopsy performed ?
410
What test confirmed diagnosis?
CLINICAL
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased 210
If so, specify
(Signed).
, M. D.
(Address) 222 PLEASANT ST INTHE Date.
5/18
1.5%
Winthrop Cemetery
Winthrop
Place of Burial or Cremation
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
May 20,
19.5.9.
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR.
Richard C. Kirby
ADDRES
917 Bennington St.E.Boston
19
(Registrar)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
9 COLOR
White
10 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Married
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
Rita Whooley
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
AGE4.9 Years.
2 Months ....
12Days
If under 24 hours
Hours
Minutes
13 Usual
Sheff
Occupation :
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business:
General Edwards Inn
15 Social Security No ....
010-09-4566
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
Patton
(State or country)
Penn.
17 NAME OF
FATHER
John Pavlik
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
Austria
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Anna Wartko
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Austria
21
Informant Mrs.
Rita Paylik
(Address) 11/ Hermon St.winthrop
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was hled with me BEFORE the buriat or transit permit was issued :
(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
5/20/59
(Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit)
V.PU
Registered No.
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT -
‹ ‹Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR).
W.W.2
(Usual place of abode)
DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE
ACUTE CORONARY OCCLUSION
(a)
SUPER IMPOSED ON PREVIOUS CORONARY
6 YRS
SOM-5-56-917573
Received and filed
PARENTS
6
contrib- but not terminal ion given
EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE
RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH
physician or registered hospital medical officer shall forthwith, after the th 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 deceased, furnish for registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the t of his knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the ease of which he died. defined as required by section one, where same was tracted. the duration of his last illness, when last scen 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 ceding section or by section forty-five of chapter one hundred and four- n, shall, if the deceased, to the best of his knowledge and belief, served in the ny, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been aged, insert in the certificate a recital to that effect, specifying the war, and 11 also certify in such certificate both the primary and the secondary or imme- te cause of death as nearly as he can state the same. For neglect to comply h any provision of this section, such physician or officer, shall forfeit ten dollars. the purposes of this section and of sections forty-five, forty-six and forty-seven aid chapter one hundred and fourteen, the word "war" shall include the China ef expedition and the Philippine insurrection, which shall, for said purposes, be med to have taken place between February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ety-eight and July fourth, nineteen hundred and two, and the Mexican border vice 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 town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he received a permit from the board of health, or its agent appointed to issue h permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the son died; and no undertaker or other person shall exhume a human body and love it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomb er than the receiving tomb to another in the same cemetery, until he has eived 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 ll 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 urned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an original inter- nt, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by 7. 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 ugh 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 rmit for the removal of a human body, not previously interred, from one town another within the commonwealth cannot be obtained early enough for the rpose, 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 noval; 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
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