Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1961, Part 10

Author: Winthrop (Mass.)
Publication date: 1961
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Number of Pages: 542


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Informant


(Address)


218 Lincoln St. Winthrop


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


tally E, Mercanand


(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)


H.O.


3/10/6/


(Date of Issue of Permit)


(Official Designation)


X


CTIONS R ERTIFICATE


ving 7 DEATH enter an one or each and (c)


nat mean af dying, urt failure, It means ar compli- ch caused


if any, rise to se (a), ; under- se last.


tas contrib- ath but nat le terminal ntian given


Capter 137, , requires o print or cause or Edeath on dcates, and Acts of ues Physi- it or type esignature.


(Signed)


KTUGepl GREGORIE


(PRINTVOR TYPE SIGNATURE).


(Address) 194 Washington Date ..... 23/11


yn.


Due To


(c)


Senility


OTHER SIGNIFICANT CONDITIONS


Was autopsy performed ?


What test confirmed diagnosis ?


INTERVAL


BETWEEN


ONSET AND


DEATH


DEATH WAS CAUSED BY : IMMEDIATE CAUSE


myocardial heart


(a)


Disease


Due To


an Verso sclerosis


(b) generalized


3 DATE OF


DEATH


harch


8


1961


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


19


10a If married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of


Catherine E. McDonald


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


92


5


Salerno


5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?


If so, specify


Salerno


-- 925686


Washington Rest Home - No.


2 FULL NAME


Joseph Delmonico


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


6


SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION


DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE


DATE OF DISCHARGE


RANK, RATING


ORGANIZATION AND OUTFIT


SERVICE NUMBER


240


RULES OF PRACTICE


The fulfillment of the purpose theseslams pays forythe 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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CTIONS R ERTIFICATE


ving ₹ DEATH enter an one r each ) and (c)


not mean of dying, ut failure, It means or compli- ch caused


if any, : rise to se


(a), under- se last. ns contrib- th but not e terminal tion given


hapter 137, 154. requires to print or 2 cause or death on Ificates, and 8, Acts of ires Physi- int or type - signature. C


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PLACE OF DEATH


Suffolk (County)


Winthrop


(City or Town)


No. 2.8 ... Taylor


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.


46


Registered No. §(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. ¿ give its NAME instead of street and number) PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT


2 FULL NAME


Louisa DeStefano


(First Name)


(Middle Name)


(Last Name)


[if so specify WAR) No


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


28 Taylor


St.


Winthrop, Mass.


(a) Residence. No.


( Usual place of abode)


Length of stay: In place of death.


......


.years ..


.. months.


days.


In place of residence


4


years


months.


days.


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


8 SEX


Female


9 COLOR


White


10 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWER dowed


or DIVORCEI


10a If married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of


Peter DeStefano


(Husband's name in full)


11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


12


AGE.8.2 ... Years


„Months


.. Days


If under 24 hours


Hours.


Minutes


13 Usual


Occupation :


Housewife


(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)


Italy


17 NAME OF


FATHER


Rizabetto Clericuzio


18 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


(State or country)


Italy


19 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Carmela Ruggiero


20 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country) Italy


21 Dora Festa


Informant


(Address) 28 Taylor St, Winthrop, Mass


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


Left (Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)


H.C.


3/10/6/


(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)


PARENTS


6


Holy Cross


Malden


Place of Burial or Cremation


(City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL


March 11,


19 61


7 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


DiPietro & Vazza


ADDRES


11 .... Henry ..... S.t., ..... East Boston


Received and filed


MAR 1-0 1961


19


(Registrar)


INTERVAL BETWEEN ONSET AND DEATH 12 hrs.


DEATH WAS CAUSED BY : IMMEDIATE CAUSE


(a) Cerebral


VASCULAR


RAGE


Due To


(b)


HYPERTENSION


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


(Signed)


marion @ Sala


M. D


MARIIN C


SABIA


(PRINT OR TYPE SIGNATURE)


(Address)


JY/ MAUCRICK ST Date.


March 9 106%.


AUS+ BOSTON


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


4 I HEREBY


CERTIFY,


That I attended deceased from


June


19 .. 52, to ...


MAILCh


8


961


I last saw he.nalive on


MARCH 7, 1961


death is said to


have occurred on the date stated above, at


8:45 am


6 yrs.


3 DATE OF


DEATH


march


8


1961


(Was deceased a U. S. War Veteran,


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


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 DELIVERY


Suffolk (County )


1 Winthrop (City or Town)


No. Winthrop Community Hospital


St.


- (If death occurred in a hospital or institution, give its NAME instead of street and number)


3 DATE OF


DELIVERY


3


(Month)


( Day)


11


1961


(Year )


4 SEX


MalX


.Female .. . . Undetermined


5 COLOR (if


determined )W


6 THIS BIRTH (Check one)


Single.


Twin


Triplet


7 IF MULTIPLE BIRTH, BORN :


1 st ...


.2nd


3rd


FATHER


MOTHER


8


FULL


NAME


Morello, Angelo J.


14


MAIDEN NAME


Guinasso, Marie


PRESENT NAME


Morello, Marie


9


RESIDENCE, NO.


27 Ford


Revere


STREET


CITY OR TOWN


STATE.


Mass


15


RESIDENCE, NO.


27 Ford Street


CITY OR TOWN Revere


STREET


STATE Mass.


10 COLOR QR


RA


White


11 AGE AT TIME OF


THIS DELIVERY


31 (Years)


16 COLOR,


RACE.


White


17 AGE AT TIME OF 23


THIS DELIVERY


(Years)


12 PLACE OF


BIRTH


Boston, Mass.


(City or Town)


(State or country)


18 PLACE


BIRTH


Boston, Mass.


(City or Town)


(State or country)


13


OCCUPATION Clothing worker


19 INFORMANT Angelo Morello


20 PREVIOUS DELIVERIES TO MOTHER


(Do not include this fetus)


NONE


(a) How many children are


now living?


(b) How many children were


born alive but are now


dead ?


(c) How many previous fetal deaths of ANY gestation age?


21 LENGTH OF


PREGNANCY


& 4 completed


weeks


22 WEIGHT OF FETUS


Lb.


7


.Oz.


23 WHEN DID FETUS DIE?


Before


Labor


24 AUTOPSY


Yes


No. L


25 FETAL DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE


Unknown


(a)


Due To (b) Due To (c)


OTHER SIGNIFICANT


CONDITIONS


26


St. Michael


Place of Burial or Cremation


Boston


(City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL March 14,1961. .19


27 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR Arthur S. Porcella


ADDRESS 876 Winthrop Ave., Revere


Received and filed .19


(Registrar)


I HEREBY CERTIFY that this delivery occurred on the date stated above at 700Am., and product of conception was not a live birth.


Signature of Attending Physician of Medical Examiner :


M.D.


Sydney Ellis (PRINT OR TYPE SIGNATURE)


Address


311 Commonwealth Ave. Date


Boston


3/11/6


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


,


Ralph E. Seriannel (Signature for Agent of Board of Health or other) 4 .. O. 3/13/6/


(Official Designation )


(Date of Issue of Permit )


1 giving .USE OF AL DEATH not enter e than one se for each (a), (b) ind (c)


or maternal, aion causing death (do use such as stillbirth maturity.) and/or ma- conditions, which gave ito above (a), stating nderlying last.


tions of fetus tther which ave contrib- to fetal but, in so is known, enot related cuse given


15M-6-60-928241


2 NAME OF FETUS


(if given)


Morello, Male


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts JOSEPH D. WARD SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS CERTIFICATE OF FETAL DEATH (STILLBIRTH)


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


Registered No.


A TRUE COPY ATTEST :


(or ..


.Grams)


During Labor


or Delivery ..


Unknown


11 FETAL DEATH 1.1


EXTRACTS OF CERTAIN SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 46 AS AMENDED OR ADDED BY CHAPTER 48. ACTS OF 1960. 1


1 .: 6


Section 2A. "Examination of records and returns of illegitimate births, or abnormal sex births, or fetal deaths, . .. shall not be permitted except ... ".


Section 9A. When a child is born Adad, after alperiod of gestation of not less than twenty weeks, and in the fetus there is no attempt at respiration, no action of heart and no movement of voluntary muscle, the physician or officer attending at the birth of such child shall forthwith furnish for registration, at the request of an undertaker or other authorized person or of any member of the family of the deceased, a certificate of fetal death on a form which shall be prepared by the secretary of state as required by section sixteen. Town clerks shall record certificates of fetal death in the town register of deaths in the same manner as a death certificate, but they shall not be required to record such certificates in the town register of births.


Section 12. ". .. No birth record of a child born out of wedlock or of a child of abnormal sex, and no record of fetal death shall so be transmitted to any other city or town."


Section 24. In any statement of births, deaths and fetal deaths printed by a town the name of an illegitimate child or of its parents or of the parents of a child born dead shall not be printed, but the word "illegitimate" or "fetal death" shall be used in place thereof. A town violating this section shall forfeit to the mother of such child not more than one hundred dollars.


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or maternal on causing death (do tse such Is stillbirth maturity. ) and/or ma- conditions, which gave o above a), stating derlying ast.


ons of fetus her which ve contrib- to fetal but, in so is known. ot related se given


15M-6-60-928241


Suffolk (County ) Winthrop (City or Town) PLACE OF DELIVERY No. Win. Community Hospital


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts JOSEPH D. WARD SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS CERTIFICATE OF FETAL DEATH ( STILLBIRTH)


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


Registered No.


48


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


March 13 1961


3 DATE OF


DELIVERY


(Month )


(Day)


(Year)


4 SEX


Male. AFemale ...... Undetermined


5 COLOR (if


determined)


W


6 THIS BIRTH (Check one)


Single ^ Twin


Triplet


7 IF MULTIPLE BIRTH, BORN:


1st. ...


.2nd


3rd


FATHER


8


FULL


NAME


Dennis Plucker


9


RESIDENCE, NO.


CITY OR TOWN


175 Shirley


Winthrop


STREET


STATE


Mass.


15


RESIDENCE, NO.


CITY OR TOWN


175 Shirley


Winthrop


STATE.


Mass


STREET


10 COLOR OR RACE White


11 AGE AT TIME OF THIS DELIVERY 23 (Years)


16 COLOR OR


RACE.


White


17 AGE AT TIME OF THIS DELIVERY 22


.(Years)


12 PLACE OF


BIRTH


Lenox


(City or Town)


South Dakota.


(State or country)


18 PLACE OF


BIRTH


Boston


(City or Town)


Mass.


(State or country)


13 OCCUPATION Machinist


19 INFORMANT DENNIS PLUCKER


20 PREVIOUS DELIVERIES TO MOTHER


(Do not include this fetus)


Two


(a) How many children are


now living?


2


(b) How many children were


born alive but are now


dead ?


O


(c) How many previous fetal deaths of ANY gestation age ? None


21 LENGTH OF


PREGNANCY


.completed weeks


22 WEIGHT OF FETUS


Lb.


Oz.


(or ..


Grams )


23 WHEN DID FETUS DIE?


Before


Labor


24 AUTOPSY


Yes


X


.No


25 FETAL DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE


(a)


Prematurity


Due To (b)


Premature separation of


Due To (c) placenta; plus cord .around. neck


OTHER SIGNIFICANT CONDITIONS Threat. Misc. 2 wks prev, and 24 hrs, prev.


WINTHROP WINTHROP


26


Place of Burial or Cremation


(City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL


MARCH 15


19.60


27 NAME OF FUNERAL DIRECTOR MAURICE W KIRBY ADDRESS WINTHROP


Received and filed MAR 15 1961 .19


(Registrar )


I HEREBY CERTIFY that this delivery occurred on the date stated above at 7 : 20AMand product of conception was not a live birth.


Signature of Attending Physician of Medical Examiner : an. Caplan


M. D.


A. N. Caplan M.D. 19 Menmaiok TYAVSIGNATURE) Winthrop Mass Date


3/13


61


Address


19


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


Sirianni


(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other )


CH


1.O


march 15/61


(Official Designation )


(Date of Issue of Permit)


1 1


2 NAME OF FETUS (if given)


Baby Boy Plucker


St.


14


MAIDEN NAME


PRESENT NAME


MOTHER


Catherine Corso


Catherine Plucker


giving USE OF .L DEATH not enter : than one e for each (a), (b) nd (c)


A TRUE COPY ATTEST :


X


During Labor


or Delivery ..


Unknown.


RECEIVED


FETAL DEATH


TOW


OF


11 12


10


CLERK


3


7


PROP


MAR 151961 MM


EXTRACTS OF CERTAIN SECTIONS OF CHAPTER 46 AS AMENDED OR ADDED BY CHAPTER 48. ACTS OF 1960.


Section 2A. "Examination of records and returns of illegitimate births, or abnormal sex births, or fetal deaths, ... shall not be permitted except ... ".


Section 9A. When a child is born deac, after a period of gestation of not less than twenty weeks, and in the fetus there is no attempt at respiration, no action of heart and no movement of voluntary muscle, the physician or officer attending at the birth of such child shall forthwith furnish for registration, at the request of an undertaker or other authorized person or of any member of the family of the deceased, a certificate of fetal death on a form which shall be prepared by the secretary of state as required by section sixteen. Town clerks shall record certificates of fetal death in the town register of deaths in the same manner as a death certificate, but they shall not be required to record such certificates in the town register of births.


Section 12. ". .. No birth record of a child born out of wedlock or of a child of abnormal sex, and no record of fetal death shall so be transmitted to any other city or town."


Section 24. In any statement of births, deaths and fetal deaths printed by a town the name of an illegitimate child or of its parents or of the parents of a child born dead shall not be printed, but the word "illegitimate" or "fetal death" shall be used in place thereof. A town violating this section shall forfeit to the mother of such child not more than one hundred dollars.


PLACE OF DEATH


Suffolk (Counts) Struthrop. (City or Town) Mount's Convalescent Home


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


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


49


$ (If death occurred in a hospital or institution.,


St. { give its NAME instead of street and number)


No .......... Highland Ayer Winthrop


treable @ Thielelo


1 2 FULL NAME.


(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.) 36 Coral Live


St


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


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


2


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


3 DATE OF


DEATH


March 14


(Month)


(Day)


1961 (Year)


4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,


Rec


19.


50


to March 14


61


I last sa


hi Walive on March 10


19.01, death is said to


have occurred on the date stated ahove, at 2:30 Pm.


DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE (a) Congestive heart failure


INTERVAL BETWEEN ONSET AND DEATH


Due To


arteriosclerosis


(b)


11 yrs.


Due To (c)


OTHER


SIGNIFICANT


CONDITIONS


Senility


Was autopsy performed?


NO


What test confirmed diagnosis ?.


5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased NO If so, specify B. Greenfield M. D.


(Signed>


OSSicenfield


M. D.


91 Shirley St


3 - 14/19/01


(Address) Winthrop Mass Date


6 Calvary Cemetary


Place of Burial or/Cremation


(City or Toyn)


DATE OF BURIAL .. That 17.1966


7 NAME OF


Hillary E . Jern


ADDRESS 2.57 Maple if tym1


Received and filed. MAR 16 1961/ 19


(Registrar)


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


9 COLOR


8 SEX


stale White


10 SINGLE


MARRIED


(write the word)


or DIVORCED


1fa If- married, wittywed, 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


85%


approve


If under 24 hours


AGE


.. Years


Months.


.. Days


.....


Hours.


Minutes


13 Usual


Occupation :


Office Manager


(Kind of work done during most of working life)


14 Industry


or Business :


Insurance


15 Social Security No ...


16 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


OBreton Mass


17 NAME OF


FATHER


unable To obtain,


18 BIRTHPLACE OF


Ireland


FATHER (City).


(State or country)


19 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


nable to obtain


1 MOTHER (City) (State or country))


Millions Common y replace


21


Informant


(Address)


114 Oltrealla It dejours


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the hurial or transit permit was issued : Ralph E. Sirianni (Signature, of Agent of Board of Health or other) HE) CH


ma2+16/1961


(Official Designation )


(Date of Issue of Permit)


'IONS


RTIFICATE


ing DEATH enter n one each and (c)


not mean of dying, t failure, It means or compli- h caused


if any, rise to € (a), under. e last.


contrib- but not terminal ion given


apter 137, requires print or :ause or


leath on


cates.


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CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


Registered No.


PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT


(Was deceased a


U. S. War Veteran,


if so specify WAR)


(a) Residence.


No


(Usual place of abode)


months. days. In place of residence years months. .days.


That I attended deceased from


19.


6. Mc Donald


PARENTS


20 BIRTHPLACE OF


Ireland


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).




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