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(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 occu- pation, 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 impor - tant, 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. Chil- dren 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.
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× PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk (County)
/1
Winthrop (City or Town)
No.
Winthrop Community Hospital
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts JOSEPH D WARD 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.
Registered No. 78
(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, no
[if so specify WAR)
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
269 Webster
St.
East Boston
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay : In place of death .. .... .. .. years ....
.. months ..
.. days. In place of residence.
..........
.years.
.... days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 DATE OF
DEATH
April 2 1960
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deceased from
19
.. , to.
19
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
STILLBIRTH
(a)
Due To INTRAUTERINE
(b)
ASPHYXIA
Due To (c)
OTHER 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. .......
Bernard to Pathledet.
(Signed)
Bernard W Rothblatt
(Address 18) Commoningelleur Date 4/2 19 60
6
Holy Cross Cemetery Malden
Place of Burial or Cremation
DATE OF BURIAL
April 5, 6
(City or Town) 60
19
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Vincent Rapino
ADDRESS
9 Chelsea St. East Boston, Mass.
Received and filed
APR-5-1960
19
(Registrar)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
male
9 COLOR
white
10 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED single
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
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
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.
none
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
winthrop, Mass.
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Frank LaPorta
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Mass.
Boston
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Mary LoConte
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Mass.
Boston
21
Informant
(Address)
269 Webster St. , East Boston, Mass.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: Talple C. Seriaunix (Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other) Realita officer 4/5/60
(Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit)/
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CTIONS OR CERTIFICATE
iving OF DEATH t enter han one for each b) and (c)
s not mean of dying, eart failure, tc. It means , or compli- hich caused
is, if any, ve rise to ause (a), he under- ause last.
ions contrib- eath but not the terminal dition given
Chapter 137, 54. requires s to print or cause or death on ificates, and 48, Acts of ires Physi- rint or type er signature.
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2 FULL NAME.
LaPorta, Baby Boy
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
INTERVAL
BETWEEN
ONSET AND
DEATH
none
PARENTS
Frank LaPorta ( father)
SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE.
DATE OF DISCHARGE RANK, RATING
ORGANIZATION AND OUTFIT
SERVICE NUMBER
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RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observance of the following 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 un. related 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 occu- pation, 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 impor- tant, 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. Chil- dren 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.
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PLACE OF DEATH
S UFFOLK (County)
WINTHROP
(City or Town)
No.
51 Palmyra
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts JOSEPH D WARD 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.
Registered No.
79
[(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. } give its NAME instead of street and number)
2 FULL NAME
DANIEL J CRONIN
(If deceased is a married, widoved or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
51 Palmyra: -.
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
Length of stay: In place of death.
......
... years.
7
months
.... days. In place of residence.
............. years.
months.
days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 DATE OF
DEATH
April
6
1960
((Month)
(Day)
(Year)
4 I HEREBY
CERTIFY,
That I attended deceased from
19 .**...
to
19 .-
I last saw h ........ alive on
.. , 19 ............ , death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
11:05 pm.
DEATH WAS CAUSED BY : IMMEDIATE CAUSE
(a)
Natural
Causes
2 Due To Presumably Coronary (b)
Occlusion
Sudden
(c) Arteriosclerotic Heart Dis
ease yrs.
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
Carcinoma of Prostate
Was autopsy performed?
no
What test confirmed diagnosis? Post-mortem judgement.
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? mo If so, specify
(Sig
arthur C. Murray
M. D.
Arthur C. Murray, M.D.
(PRINT OR TYPE SIGNATURE)
(Address) Winthrop Board Date 7 April 1960
Winthrop, of Health Winthrop, Mass 6
Place of Burial or Cremation
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
19
April 9
60
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Ernest P Caggiano
ADDRESS
147 Winthrop St. Winthrop
Received and filed
APR 8 1960
19
(Registrar)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
Male
9 COLOR
White
(write the word)
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCEDMarried
10a If married, wiepnegivde Quade
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
83
6
Months.
.. Days
If under 24 hours
Hours ....
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation :
Retired Letter Carrier
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business :
U.S. Goverment
15 Social Security No.
Boston
16 BIRTHPLACE (City) (State or country) Mass:
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Dennis Cronin
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Unknown
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Unknown
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Unknown
Mrs Eleanor Klipfel
21
Informant
(Address)
51 Pelyma St, Winthrop Mass
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was Aled with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued:
( Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
4/8/60
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)/
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UCTIONS OR CERTIFICATE
giving OF DEATH t enter than one for each b) and (c)
es not mean of dying, eart failure, tc. It means ,. or compli- hich caused
ns, if any, ve rise to ause (a), the under- ause last.
ions contrib- eath but not the terminal dition given
Chapter 137, 54. requires s to print or cause or death on ificates, and 48, Acts of uires Physi- rint or type er signature.
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1
PARENTS
No PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT [(Was deceased a U. S. War Veteran, (if so specify WAR)
St.
(If nopresident, give city or town and State) 7
-
CENSE ME TIO
INTERVAL
BETWEEN
ONSET AND
DEATH
AGE ..
Years.
SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE
DATE OF DISCHARGE RANK, RATING
ORGANIZATION AND OUTFIT
SERVICE NUMBER
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observance of the following 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 un- related 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 occu- pation, 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 impor- tant, 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. Chil- dren 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.
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PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk (County)
Winthrop (City of Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts JOSEPH D. WARD 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.
80
[(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. ¿ give its NAME instead of street and number)
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
2 FULL NAME
Edward Francis Geppert
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
16 Moore Street
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay : In place of death .............. years ..
3
.months ...
1.5days. In place of residence ...
.4 9years.
.......... months .............. days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 DATE OF
DEATH
April
7
1960
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
April 5
19.5.6
., to ..
April7
19 ... 60
I last saw himalive on
April ..... 7.
19 ... 60 .. , death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
8:25 P.m.
INTERVAL BETWEEN ONSET AND DEATH
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
3 days
AGE.
83 Years ....
8.Months .. 21 ... Days
If under 24 hours
Hours.
......
Minutes
13 Usual
retired salesman
Occupation :
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business :
gift novelties
15 Social Security No. 033-16-6585 Philadelphia
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Pennsylvania
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Robert Geppert
18 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) (State or country) Germany
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Anna Bonnert
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Germany
Mass.
Miss ... Pamela .... V ......... Besom
Informant (Addre 16 Moore St
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Cehed B. March
ADDRESS
174 Winthrop St.Winthrop,
Received and filed
APR-11-1960
.... 19 ..
(Registrar)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
9 COLOR
10 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIEDWidowed
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
male white
10a If married, widowed, or di
HUSBAND of
Mary divorced
.Besom Geppert
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE
(a)
Cerebral hemorrhage with left
hemiplegia
Due To
Generalized and cerebral
(b)
arteriosclerosis
4 yrs
Due To
Xabex
(c)
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
Tabes Dorsalis
20yrs
Was autopsy performed ?
no
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
Clinical & laboratory
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ? no ... If so, specify
(Signed)
Du. Traunstein, dr.
M. Traunstein, Jr., M.D. /
............ , M. D.
(PRINT OR TYPE SIGNATURE)
73 Bartlett Pd.
Date
4/9
19.60
(Address)
6 Winthrop Cemetery Winthrop .....
Place of Burial or Cremation (City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL April 11 .1960
PARENTS
Halle . for etwas
Mass n .. (Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other) Thealite Officer 4/11/60
(Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit) V.A.V
UCTIONS FOR CERTIFICATE
giving OF DEATH t enter than one for each b) and (c)
es not mean of dying, heart failure, etc. It means , or compli- hich caused
ns, if any, ave rise to cause (a), the under- ause last.
tions contrib- leath but not the terminal ndition given
Chapter 137, 54. requires s to print or cause or f death on tificates, and 48, Acts of uires Physi- print or type er signature.
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No. MayflowerNursing Home
Registered No.
[(Was deceased a
¿ U. S. War Veteran,
(if so specify WAR)
N.O ..
(a) Residence.
No.
(Usual place of abode)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE
DATE OF DISCHARGE
RANK, RATING
ORGANIZATION AND OUTFIT
SERVICE NUMBER
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observance of the following 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 un- related to any form of injury.
1030 ..
(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 occu- pation, 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 impor- tant, 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. Chil- dren 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.
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10
bostonet (City or Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN Th. 0 SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD
To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Registered No. 81
Winthrop Convalescent Homp(If death occurred in a hospital or institution. No. A Paul Di Gregorio. NAME instead
2 FULL NAME
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced wordan give also maiden name.)
5 White
8. Boston mays.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death
.years.
1
months.
27
days. In place of residence ____. years.
.months.
.. days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
M
9 COLOR
White
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
(write the word)
Single
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
72 Years
Months
Days
If under 24 hours
Hours ....... Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation :
1
Retiring PROPRIETOR
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business:
Sewing Machine REFAIRE
15 Social Security No ..
024-03-0693A.
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Italy
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Frank Di Gregorio.
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City).
(State or country)
Italy
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Filomena Di gregorio
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
amedio Di gregorio.
21 Informant (Address) 57 Hawkins St RovetinceRl
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: Halble E. Tireanne.8 , (Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
Health Officer 4/11/60
(Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit)
×
DEATH
3 DATE OF
APRIL 9
1960
(Year)
(Month)
(Day)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
That I attended deceased from
2/19
to.
1
4/4/60
19
I last saw hetnalive on
/8
__ , 1900, death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at 2:50 g.m.
DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE
l'UlMONARY EdeMA
(a)
INTERVAL
BETWEEN
ONSET AND
DEATH
ICAY
Due To
CEREBRAL L'ASECULAR
Accident
- (b)
Due To
HYPERTENSION
(c)
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
Was autopsy performed?
ivo
What test confirmed diagnosis?
Clinical
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ? If so, specify I'm. A. Sagone
(Signed). 7/2011. Jaune , M. D.
Ss) (0/ Reneo Ht DeCasa 4/9 60
6
Cambridge Gmetly Canch mass Place of Burial or Cremation
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL april 12,0
1960
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Joseph a. Egidio
ADDRES 448 Cambridal IX Carla may
Received and filed APR 11 1900 19
(Registrar)
PARENTS
50M-1-58-921876
2-17-60
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Tex
CTIONS OR CERTIFICATE
lving F DEATH t enter han one for each ) and (c)
es not mean of dying, eart failure, c. It means or compli- hich caused
, if any, ve rise to use
(a), he under- last.
Rs contrib- ath but not the terminal dition given
Chapter 137, 54, requires to print or cause or death on
lficates.
Italy
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
(a) Residence.
No ..
(Usual place of abode)
PLACE OF DEATH
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 therequest of an undertaker or other authorized person or of any member of the family of the deceased, furnish for registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, his supposed age, the disease of which he died, defined as required by section one, where same was contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive by the physician or officer and the date of his death. . . Gen. Laws, Chap. 46, Sec. 9.
A physician or officer furnishing a certificate of death as required by the preceding section or by section forty-five of chapter one hundred and four- teen, shall. if the deceased, to the best of his knowledge and belief, served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been engaged, insert in the certificate a recital to that effect, specifying the war, and shall also certify in such certificate both the primary and the secondary or imme- diate cause of death as nearly as he can state the same. For neglect to comply with any provision of this section, such physician or officer, shall forfeit ten dollars. For the purposes of this section and of sections forty-five, forty-six and forty-seven of said chapter one hundred and fourteen, the word "war" shall include the China relief expedition and the Philippine insurrection, which shall, for said purposes, be deemed to have taken place between February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and July fourth, nineteen hundred and two, and the Mexican border service of nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen. G. L. Chap. 46. Sec. 10.
No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a human body in a town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he has received a permit from the board of health, or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or other person shall exhume a human body and remove it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomb other than the receiving tomb to another in the same cemetery, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the town where the body is buried. No such permit shall be issued until there shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satisfactory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied, in case of an original inter- ment, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a physician who is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical examiner shall make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of a human body, not previously interred, from one town to another within the commonwealth cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, the certificate of death made as above provided and in the possession of the undertaker desiring to make such removal shall constitute a permit for such removal; provided, that such body shall be returned to the town from which it was removed within thirty-six hours after such removal, unless a permit in the usual form for the removal of such body has been sooner obtained hereunder. If the
death certificate contains a recital, as required by section ten of chapter forty-six, that the deceased served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been engaged, such recital shall appear upon the permit. The board of health, or its agent, upon receipt of such statement and certificate. shall forthwith countersign it and transmit it to the clerk of the town for registra- tion. The person to whom the permit is so given and the physician certifying the cause of death shall thereafter furnish for registration any other necessary information which can be obtained as to the deceased, or as to the manner or cause of the death, which the clerk or registrar may require .- Chap. 114, Sec. 45, G. L., (Tercentenary Edition).
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