Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1961, Part 29

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


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-11-59-926662


3 DATE OF


DEATH


AUG


1


1961


(Year)


(Month)


(Day)


That I attended deceased from


4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,


Feb


56


AUGI


61


19.


AUG


961, death is said to


to ...


DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE


PULMONARY EMBOLUS


(a)


Due To


FRACTURE LEFT FEMUR


(b)


M R-301A 1


11


Winthrop Community Hospital No.


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


[(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,


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


PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


I last saw heRalive on


. have occurred on the date stated above, at


205p


m.


INTERVAL


BETWEEN


ONSET AND


DEATH


15 HRS.


BOSTEN


BOSTON


SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION


DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE.


DATE OF DISCHARGE


RANK, RATING


ORGANIZATION AND OUTFIT


SERVICE NUMBER


-


6


RULES OF PRACTICE


The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the Able --- 31961 AM 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.


RM R.302 1


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


(1)) resided as soon as possible, after the close of the month in which the death occurred. (See Chap. 46. Sec. 12, ( ;. 1 .. ) 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 Due To (c)


25M-8-58-918227


PLACE OF DEATH


Middlesex (County) Somerville


(City or Town)


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


Somerville


(City or Town making this return)


430148


S(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,


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


2 FULL NAME


Mary F. McCusker ( Boyle )


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


51 Birch Road


Winthrop, Mas's.


St


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


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


... months.


14


days. In place of residence .. years ..


months.


.......... days.


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


3 DATE OF


DEATH


August


8.


1961


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


4 1 HEREBY CERTIFY,


That I attended deceased from


August 5


19


to ..


61


August 8


19.


61


I last saw .I. alive on


August


7


19.61


death is said to


have occurred on the date stated ahove, at


1:50A


m.


DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE


Arteriosclerotic heart


(a)


disease decompensated


1 yr


Due To


Arteriosclerosis


5 yrs


OTHER SIGNIFICANT CONDITIONS


Was autopsy performed?


No


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


If so, specify


Israel Marcus


M. D.


195 School St


(Address)Somerville, Mass


Dat


Aug. 8 1961


Cambridge Cem., Cambridge, Mass 6


Place of Burial or Cremation


(City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL August 11 19


......


7 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


John F. Donahue


ADDRESS


Received


filed


19


(Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided)


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


8 SEX


Female


9 COLOR


White


10 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


Widowe


10a If married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of


Thomas J. McCusker


(Husband's name in full)


11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


12


AGE 19


Years


- Months


Days


If under 24 hours


Hours ......


Minutes


13 Usual


Housewife


Occupation :


(Kind of work done during most of working life)


14 Industry


or Business :


At home


15 Social Security No.


16 BIRTHPLACE (City).


Cambridge


(State or country)


Mass


17 NAME OF


FATHER


Patrick S. Boyle


18 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


Boston


19 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Ellen Hughes


20 BIRTHPLACE OF


Boston


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


Mass


Mrs.


Jane Gillies (Sister)


21 Informant. (Address) 51 Birch Rd. Winthrop, Mass.


A TRUE COPY William J. Dareway


ATTEST:


(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred)


Aug. 9


61


.19.


5


1


1


-


PARENTS


Registered No.


(Was deceased a


U. S. War Veteran,


No


so specify WAR)


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


3


No.


.........


DATE FILED


66 Magazine St. Cambridge , Mass


INTERVAL BETWEEN ONSET AND DEATH


What test confirmed diagnosis?


Clinical


No


(State or country)


Mass


PLACE OF DEATH


Suffolk (County)


Winthrop (City or Town)


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts JOSEPH D. WARD SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS


STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


Registered No.


149


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


PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT


2 FULL NAME.


Charles Davis Tuckerman


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


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


24 Perkins Street St.


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


Length of stay: In place of death .............. years ... ....... .. months 1.1.days. In place of residence. 4.5years ... ..... months .. ...... .... days.


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


3 DATE OF


DEATH


(Day)


Aug


10


1961


(Year)


4 I HEREBY


CERTIFY


That I attended deceased from


March


, CO,


aug 10


1961


I last saw h.s.ldalive on


aug


19 496 death is said to


have occurred on the date stated above at 12:30Am.


INTERVAL


BETWEEN


ONSET AND


DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE


Cancer of Pancreas.


(a)


DEATH


5 mos.


11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


12


AGE .... 7.1 .Years.


8.Months ..


2.5Days


If under 24 hours


Hours.


Minutes


13 Usual


Occupation :


salesman


14 Industry


or Business :


wholesale oil equipment


15 Social Security No. 021-03-7517


16 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Massachusetts


17 NAME OF


FATHER


Albert William Tuckerman


18 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


Boston


(State or country)


Massachusetts


19 MAIDEN NAME


Dennison


20 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


Brooklyn


(State or country)


New York


6 Winthrop Cemetery Winthrop, Massi


(City or Town)


Place of Burial or Cremation


DATE OF BURIAL ... August 12 1961


7 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


Ciehed B. March


ADDRESS


174 Winthrop Street, Winthrop,


Received and filed AUG 14 1961


19


(Registrar)


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


9 COLOR


8 SEX


male


white


10 SINGLE


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


10a If married, widowed, or divorced-


Anne Phyllis Jordan


HUSBAND of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of


(Husband's name in full)


Due To (b)


Due To (c)


Coronary Artery


4yrs.


Was autopsy performed?


No


What test confirmed diagnosi


Surgical, Pathological


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


PARENTS


Charles Liber man (PRINT OR TYPE SIGNATURE) (Address) Winthrop, Mass Date.


8/10/1961


Mrs. Charles D. Tuckerman


Informant


(Address)


24 Perkins St. Winthrop


I HEREBY CERTIFY tbat a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE, the burial of transit /permit was issued: Mass.


(Signature of Agent/of Board of Health or other) Idealthe Gick 8/10/6/


(Official Designation)


V


(Date of Issue of Permit)


X


STRUCTIONS FOR AL CERTIFICATE


In giving E OF DEATH not enter re than one se for each ), (b) and (c)


does not mean ode of dying, s heart failure, 2, etc. It means euse, or compli- which caused


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


nditions contrib- o death but not to the terminal condition given


Chapter 137, 1954. requires ans to print or he cause or of death on ertificates, and 48, Acts of equires Physi- print or type der signature.


e


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M R-301A 1


No.


Winthrop Community Hospital


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


[(Was deceased a U. S. War Veteran, (if so specify WAR)


(Kind of work done during most of working life)


OTHER


SIGNIFICANT


CONDITIONS


HeartDisease


Wakefield


(Signed)


Cheartes Liberman


. 1).


OF MOTHER


Rebecca Josephine


SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION


DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE


: DATE OF DISCHARGE


RANK, RATING


ORGANIZATION AND OUTFIT


SERVICE NUMBER


1


151 ri


5


6


ES.


0


RULES OF PRACTICE AUG 1 41961 AM


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) therinal, 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.


?


X


PLACE OF DEATH


Middlesex (County) Carlisle (City or Town ) Sunny Nook Nursing Home No


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts JOSEPH D. WARD SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS COPY OF CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


(City or Town making this return)


2 FULL NAME.


(a) Residence. No.


3 DATE OF


DEATH


(Month)


(Day)


61


to ...


Aug


I last saw hemlive on


.Aug ..


11


(a)


Due To


Generalized arterio-


(b)


sclerosis


Due To


(c)


OTHER


SIGNIFICANT


CONDITIONS


Was autopsy performed ?


No


6


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.)


What test confirmed diagnosis ?


Clinical


August


12


1961


( Year)


4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,


That I


attended deceased from


June


19


19


61


16]


, death is said to


have occurred on the date stated above, at


9:40 An.


INTERVAL


BETWEEN


ONSET AND


DEATH


1 da.


11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


12


AGE.


92


4


.Months


0


.Days


If under 24 hours


.Hours ........ Minutes


13 Usual


Occupation :


At Home


(Kind of work done during most of working life)


14 Industry


or Business :


None


15 Social Security No. .. None


Gloucester


16 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Mass.


17 NAME OF


FATHER


Allen J. Hall


18 BIRTHPLACE OF


Pownal


FATHER (City)


(State or country )


Vermont


19 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Sarah Andrews


20 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


Hillsboro


( State or country)


New Hampshire


21


Informant


Robert Hall


(Address)


289 Boston Post Rd., Sudbury


A TRUE COPY


ATTEST :


Margaret m Heald


(Registrar of City or Town where death occurred )


DATE FILED


August 13


19.


61


( Registrar of City or Town where deceased resided )


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


8 SEX


Female


9 COLOR


White


10 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


Widowed


or DIVORCED


10a If married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of.


William P. Greenlaw


(Husband's name in full)


DEATH WAS CAUSED BY : IMMEDIATE CAUSE


Pneumonia


years


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


(Signed )


Donald S. Barber


M. D.


(Address)


Billerica, MassatAug. 13, 61


Mt. Pleasant Cemetery Sudbury Place of Burial or Cremation (City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL


August 15


61


19


7 NAME OF


Edmund H. Tunnicliff


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


ADDRESS


Concord, Mass.


19


PARENTS


50M-9-59-926111


ORM R-302 no 13K CKT /ETT RJ


WALLI UNPAVING DLALA INK OR USE APPROVED BLACK TYPEWRITER RIBBON! THIS IS A PERMANENT RECORD


1


110


. 21, 10/


1


§ (If death occurred in a hospital or institution.


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


Lucy (Hall) Greenlaw


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


25 Chester Ave.


( Usual place of abode)


Winthrop


St


( If nonresident, give city or town and State)


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


.. months ..


days. In place of residence ....


.. months .......... days.


45 years.


150.


Registered No.


( Was deceased a


U. S. War Veteran,


(if so specify WAR,


No


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


Received and filed


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)


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


CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


Registered No.


151


WILFRED LOUIS MERCIER 2 FULL NAME


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


(a) Residence. No ...


85 BEAL


ST. WINTHROP


St


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


38 years :. months ... .. days.


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


3 DATE OF


August.


15


1961


DEATH


(Month)


(Day)


(Year)


4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,


Now.


19:59


to ....


August 15


19 ..


61


I last saw h.Iknalive on


August


, 1961, death is said to


have occurred on the date stated above, at


7:30 P.m.


DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE


Cerebral Hemorrhage


(a)


INTERVAL BETWEEN ONSET AND DEATH 1 day.


Due To


Hypertension


(1))


5 yrs.


Due Loft Hemi plegia


5 yrs.


OTHER SIGNIFICANT CONDITIONS


Was autopsy performed?


NO


What test confirmed diagnosis ?


Claveal.


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


(Signed).


Climbers Februara


M. D.


(Addr


Winthrop Mass Date 9/17/196/


6


Holy Cross


Malein, Mass.


Place of Burial or Cremation (City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL august 18 1961


7 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR MAURICE W. KIRBY,


ADDRESS 210 Winthrop St, Winthrop


Received and filed.


AUG 17-1961


19


(Registrar)


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


8 SEX Male


9 COLOR


White


10 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED MARRIED


or DIVORCED


10a If married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of.


JOSEPHINE MARY MURPHY


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of


(Husband's name in full)


11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


12


AGE 62 Years " Months ........ Days"


If under 24 hours


Hours ........ Minutes


13 Usual


Occupation :


SHIPPING


(Kind of work done during most of working life)


14 Industry


or Business:


SHOE FACTORY


15 Social Security No ...


023-10-6750


HAVERHILL


16 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


MASS


17 NAME OF


FATHER


EDWARD MERCIER


PARENTS


18 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


(State or country)


CANADA


19 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


ERNESTINE HOULE


20 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


CANADA


(State or country)


Josephine M. Mercier


21 Informant (Address) 185 Beal St. Winthrop


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


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


Health Officer 8/17/6/


(Official Designation ) (Date of Issue of Permit)


RUCTIONS FOR CERTIFICATE


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


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


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


tions contrib- death but not the terminal ondition given


Chapter 137, 1954, requires ans to print or 1e cause or of death on ertificates. 0


100 M - 11-55-916145


No. ....


85 REAL ST, WINTHROP St.


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


PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT


Was deceased a


U. S. War Veteran,


if so specify WAR)


NO


(Usual place of abode)


Length of stay: In place of death. ....... years ....... months days. In place of residence.


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


1 R-301A 1


(c)


That I attended deceased from


EXTRACTS FROM THE LAWS OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS GOVERNING THE RETURN OF CERTIFICATES OF DEATH


A physician or registered hospital medical officer shall forthwith. after the death of a person whom he has attended during his last illness, at the request of an undertaker or other authorized person or of any member of the family of the deceased, furnish for registration a standard certificate of death, stating to the best of his knowledge and belief the name of the deceased, his supposed age. the disease of which he died, defined as required by section one. where same was contracted, the duration of his last illness, when last seen alive by the physician or officer and the date of his death. . . Gen. Laws, Chap. 46, Sec. 9.


A physician or officer furnishing a certificate of death as required by the preceding section or by section forty-five of chapter one hundred and four- te n, shall. if the deceased, to the best of his knowledge and belief, served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been engaged, insert in the certificate a recital to that effect, specifying the war, and shall also certify in such certificate both the primary and the secondary or imme- diate cause of death as nearly as he can state the same. For neglect to comply with any provision of this section, such physician or officer, shall forfeit ten dollars. For the purposes of this section and of sections forty-five, forty-six and forty-seven of said chapter one hundred and fourteen, the word "war" shall include the China relief expedition and the Philippine insurrection, which shall. for said purposes, be deemed to have taken place between February fourteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight and July fourth, nineteen hundred and two. and the Mexican border service of nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen. G. L. Chap. 46. Sec. 10.


No undertaker or other person shall bury or otherwise dispose of a human body in a town, or remove therefrom a human body which has not been buried, until he has received a permit from the board of health, or its agent appointed to issue such permits, or if there is no such board, from the clerk of the town where the person died; and no undertaker or other person shall exhume a human body and remove it from a town, from one cemetery to another, or from one grave or tomb other than the receiving tomb to another in the same cemetery, until he has received a permit from the board of health or its agent aforesaid or from the clerk of the town where the body is buried. No such permit shall be issued until there shall have been delivered to such board, agent or clerk, as the case may be, a satisfactory written statement containing the facts required by law to be returned and recorded, which shall be accompanied. in case of an original inter- ment, by a satisfactory certificate of the attending physician, if any, as required by law, or in lieu thereof a certificate as hereinafter provided. If there is no attending physician, or if, for sufficient reasons, his certificate cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, or is insufficient, a physician who is a member of the board of health, or employed by it or by the selectmen for the purpose, shall upon application make the certificate required of the attending physician. If death is caused by violence, the medical examiner shall make such certificate. If such a permit for the removal of a human body, not previously interred, from one town to another within the commonwealth cannot be obtained early enough for the purpose, the certificate of death made as above provided and in the possession of the undertaker desiring to make such removal shall constitute a permit for such removal; provided, that such body shall be returned to the town from which it was removed within thirty-six hours after such removal, unless a permit in the usual form for the removal of such body has been sooner obtained hereunder. If the


death certificate contains a recital, as required by section ten of chapter forty-six. that the deceased served in the army, navy or marine corps of the United States in any war in which it has been engaged, such recital shall appear upon the permit. The board of health, or its agent, upon receipt of such statement and certificate. shall forthwith countersign it and transmit it to the clerk of the town for registra- tion. The person to whom the permit is so given and the physician certifying the cause of death shall thereafter furnish for registration any other necessary information which can be obtained as to the deceased, or as to the manner or cause of the death, which the clerk or registrar may require .- Chap. 114, Sec. 45, G. L., (Tercentenary Edition).


Medical examiners shall make examination upon the view of the dead bodies of persons as are supposed to have died by violence, or by the action of chemical, thermal or electrical agents or following abortion, or from diseases resulting from injury or infection relating to occupation, or suddenly when not disabled by recognizable disease, or when any person is found dead. .. - General Laws, Chap. 38, Sec. 6., as amended-by Chap. 632, Sec. 4, Acts of 1945.


No undertaker or other persons shall bury a human body or the ashes thereof which have been brought into the commonwealth until he has received a permit so to do from the board of health of 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).


24-10 RULES OF PRACTICE


The fulfillment of the purpose of these lan's calls for the observance of the follow- ing rules of practice: (1) Attending physiciam i certify tosuch deaths only as those of persons to whom they have given bedside nga last illness from disease unrelated to any form of injury.


(2) Board of Health physician 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 medicalattendance or whose physician is absent from home when the certificate


(3) Medical Examiner:AUGftd.M. 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.




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