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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
To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.
98.
S(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. ? give its NAME instead of street and number)
Agne's V Nyholm
2 FULL NAME
(First Name)
(Middle Name)
(Last Name)
(if so specify WAR)
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.) 42 Sargent Street
(a) Residence. No. (U'sual place of abode)
Length of stay: In place of death ..
. years
1
months
day's.
In place of residence.
50 years
months.
......
.. days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
3 DATE OF
DEATH
MAY
19
1962
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
AUGUST 9
1952
That I attended deceased from
......
to ...
MAY 19
1962
I last saw h.W alive on
MAY18
1962, death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
7:45 A
DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE
(a) ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INSUFFICIENCY
INTERVAL BETWEEN ONSET AND DEATH . 15 MIN
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
AGE
72
Years.
Months .....
Days
If under 24 hours
Hours.
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation :
None
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business :
it home
15 Social Security No.
013-01-1490
16 BIRTHPLACE (City). (State or country) Finland
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Unable to obtain Nyholm
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
Finland
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Unable to obtain
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Finland
21
Informant
.....
(Address) } Bancon St. Boston, LES
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)
Vialete Appear
5/22/62
(Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit)
T'
V.B. V
S UCTIONS FOR CERTIFICATE
o giving FOF DEATH
oot enter i than one for each b) and (c)
es not mean of dying, heart failure, etc. It means , or compli- which caused
ins, if any, ave rise to rause (a), Is the under- ause last.
Rions contrib- N'eath but not the terminal ndition given
Chapter 137, 1954. requires ns to print or he cause of death on ertificates, and 48, Acts of quires Physi- print or type der signature.
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Howard 3 Reynolds
Winthrop, Lass
ADDRESS
Received and filed
MAY 22 1962
19
(Registrar)
PARENTS
6 Anthrop
Winthrop
0
Place of Burial or Cremation
(City or Town)
22
62
DATE OF BURIAL
19
No
(Signed)
Dorothy Cheney appleton
M. D.
DOROTHY Cheney APPLETON
(PRINT OR TYPE SIGNATURE)
(Address) 197 Woodside AVE Date May 20 19 62
WINTHROP, MAS
10YRS
10 YRS
OTHER
CEREBRAL HEMMORRHAGE CONDITIONS
Was autopsy performed?
No
What test confirmed diagnosis?
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased?
If so, specify
3 mos.
8 SEX
Fenale
9 COLOR
White
10 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
Single
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
Due To
(b) HYPERTENSIVE HEART DISEASE
Due To
(c)
HYPERTENSION
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
No.
Bay View Nursing Home
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT [(Was deceased a { U. S. War Veteran,
Registered No.
Thomas E Key
-928145
R-301A 1
SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE
DATE OF DISCHARGE
RANK, RATING
ORGANIZATION AND OUTFIT
SERVICE NUMBER
9/6.6.5.
TO
.1.1.12
5312 ...
5
6
11
NTHI
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 nenspne 2 1962 AM 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.
X Suffolk (Coupty)
CINSE
L'
(City or Toan) 2/ nevada No. (
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts JOSEPH D. WARD SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH Registered No.
To be filed for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.
99
[(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. ( give its NAME instead of street and number)
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a U. S. War Veteran, (if so specify WAR)
Ker
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
2) nevada
(a) Residence. No.
(Usual place of abode)
15.
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
20
1962
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
19 ........
to.
19
I last saw h ........ alive on
' 19 ............ , death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
10.25 P.m.
DEATH WAS CAUSED BY : IMMEDIATE CAUSE
Natural Causes
(a)
Due
Presumably Coronary Occlusion
(b)
sudden
·Arteriosclerotic Heart Disease
years
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
Diabetes Mellitus
5 yrs
Was autopsy performed?
NO
What test confirmed diagnosis? post-mortem judgement
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ? NO If so, specify arthur @ Murray.
(Signed Arthur C. Murray M.D./ (PRINT OR TYPE SIGNATURFEK
(Addre: Winthrop Board of ) Date 20 May 1962
Liberty Progressive Place of Burial or Cremation
DATE OF BURIAL Trials 22
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
ADDRESS
Joy Turned Surmer Fre
Received and filed MAY 2 1 1962 19
(Registrar)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
Female
9 COLOR
White
10 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED Married
or DIVORCED
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
maurice Walker
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
AGE62
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:
aun homme
15 Social Security No.
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Russia
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Benjamin Person
5
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
Ruavia
....
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
19 MAIDEN NAME BILME
E.B.L
OF MOTHER
DENNEDERg
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
Maurice Walker
21 Informant
(Address) 21 Hervida IT Wasuchan
I HEREBY. CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit, permit was issued: 6 terramus?
(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
Heblite Thiele
/21/62
(Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit)
RUCTIONS FOR CERTIFICATE
giving OF DEATH not enter than one e for each (b) and (c)
does not mean le of dying, heart failure, etc. It means se, or compli- which caused
ons, if any, gave rise to cause (a), the under- cause last.
litions contrib- death but not o the terminal ondition given
Chapter 137, 1954. requires ns to print or e cause or of death on rtificates, and 48, Acts of quires Physi- print or type der signature.
011-59-926662
PLACE OF DEATH 7.1
MI R-301A 1
1
2 FULL NAME
FlorenceE. Walker
St.
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
15
Russia
1
PARENTS
(City or Town)
19.
(c)
INTERVAL
BETWEEN
ONSET AND
DEATH
That I attended deceased from
- (Give maiden name of wife in full)
Housewife
-
SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE.
DATE OF DISCHARGE RANK, RATING ORGANIZATION AND OUTFIT SERVICE NUMBER
11 12
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observance 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 dieare/April related to any form of injury.
offthe.
(2) Board of Health physicians will certify to such deaths only persons who, though disabled by recognized disease unrelated to any formche ! injury, have died without recent medical attendance or whose physician 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 i traumatism (including resulting septicemia), and by the action (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.
MAY 2 11962 AM
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.
R-301 1
CTIONS JR CERTIFICATE
giving CF DEATH 6: enter an one se or each 2) and (c)
Li not mean d of dying, art failure, c. It means al or compli- ich caused
as, if any, Je rise to use (a), se under- use last.
Cons contrib- hth but not he terminal elition given
Chapter 137, 954 requires ns to print or e cause or of death on ctificates, and 48, Acts of squires Physi- print or type uler signature.
· 930213
A TRUE COPY ATTEST:
(Registrar)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
FEMALE
9 COLOR
WHITE
10 CITIZEN
OF U.S.
YES
NO
11 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
DIVORCED
UNKNOWN
11a If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of
(or) WIFE of
CLARENCE LEMOS
(Husband's name in full)
12 DATE OF BIRTH
AUG. 15-1901
13
AGE 60%
Years
.Months ...
Days
If under 24 hours
Hours.
Minutes
14 Usual
Occupation :
TELEPHONEOPERATOR
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
15 Industry
or Business :
RETIRED
16 Social Security No.
CNB. L
BOSTON
17 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
MASS
18 NAME OF
FATHER
WILLIAMGARDNER
19 BIRTHPLACE OF FATHER (City) (State or country)
MAINE
20 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
MARGARETGARDENER
21 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country)
MASS.
22
Informant
CLARENCE LEMOS
(Address) 58 CUTLERST. 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 Check
5/24/62
(Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit) 1
TX
1
100
Registered No.
[(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,
(Last Name)
lif so specify WAR)
No
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.) 58 CUTLERST, St.
(a) Residence. No (Usual place of abode)
Length of stay: In place of death.
.. years ..........
.months.
.....
days.
In place of residence.
2
.. years.
.months.
days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 DATE OF
DEATH
23
1962
(Month):
(Day)
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
m cuh
950
to May 23
That I attended deceased from
1962.
I last saw h ...... alive on
19 6.2
death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
10:5 am
DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE
(a)
msccordial Heart
INTERVAL BETWEEN ONSET AND DEATH
Due To
(b)
a pierio sclerosis-
gen.
Due To
(c)
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
Bronches? asincere
Was autopsy performed?
Wbat test confirmed diagnosis?
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? If so, specify .
120
(Signed)
Joseph GRÉGORIE
(Address)
HOLY CROSS MALDEN
Place of Burial or Cremation
MAY 26
19 ..
62
DATE OF BURIAL
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
FREDERICKT, MAGRATH
ADDRESS
325 CHELSEAST. F. BUSTEN
Received and filed
MAY-24-1862
19
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts KEVIN H. WHITE 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.
MARGARET. A. LEMOS
2 FULL NAME
(First Name)
(Middle Name)
(City or Town)
BOSTON
6
(Print or/Type Name)
194 Warkicore " Date.
May 231062
PARENTS
give maiden name of wife in full)
P.152452
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
PLACE OF DEATH
X SUFFOLK (County) WINTHROP (City or Town) 58 OUTLER ST.
SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE
DATE OF DISCHARGE
RANK, RATING
ORGANIZATION AND OUTFIT
SERVICE NUMBER
1.
6
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the obser ynce of 1962 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 froin 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
Suffolk (County)
FAUT
Winthrop
(City or Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD
To be filled for burial permit with Board of Health or its Agent.
101
[(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. [give its NAME instead of street and number) No.
2 FULL NAME Sarah F Dunphy
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
(a) Residence. No.
212 Court Rd,
St
14 (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
Nav 28, 7962
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
January 19599
to
Var 28, 1962
, 19
I last saw her alive on May 27, 1062, 19.
, death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
9:00 am.
INTERVAL BETWEEN ONSET AND DEATH
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
85
7
Months
16
Days
If under 24 hours
.... Hours ....... Minutes
13 Usual
5 years Occupation :
Housewife
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business:
At Home
15 Social Security No. Newfoundland
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
Nova Sootia
17 NAME OF
FATHER
Unknown
-12
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
Unknown
FATHER (City).
(State or country)
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Annie Kelly
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City)
(State or country )
Unknown
Revers Lass. Malden
6
Holy Cross
Place of Burlal or Cremation
(City or Town)
21
Informant
James Dunphy
(Address)
212 0
ourt Rd, Winthrop
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: -60 fireaurez y
(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
5/29/61
(Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit)
TX
CTIONS IR CERTIFICATE
giving F DEATH 1: enter - lan one e or each , ) and (c)
's not mean of dying. art failure. . It means of compli- ich caused
i. if any, re rise to use (a), he under- use last.
uns contrib -- ath but not the terminal dition given
hapter 137, 54, requires to print or cause or death on ficates.
50M-1-58-921876
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Ernest P Caggiano
ADDRESS
147 Winthrop St, Winthrop
Received and filed MAY 29 1962 19
(Registrar)
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
Female
9 COLOR
White
10 SINGLE
(write the word)
MARRIED
WIDOWED
Widow
or DIVORCED
10a If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
John L Dunphy
ive maiden name of wife in full)
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE
(a) Arteriosclerotic heart disease
Due To
Generalized arteriosclerosis
(b)
Due To (c)
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
Diverticulosis of colon
Was autopsy performed?
no
What test confirmed diagnosis? X-ray and clinical fins
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ?_ n If so. specify ..
(Signed).
John 7 Calleria net
M. D.
(Address) 7 Bennington Streit May 28, 191962
John F. Collins, M M.D.
DATE OF BURIAL
June 1 1962
PARENTS
Nee Costello
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
(Usual place of abode)
2ª
Winthrop Cony. Home
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH 142 PleasantSt
Registered No.
NR-301A 1
3 veaff AGE
Years
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- 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 Fourtet, 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.
MAY 2 91952.AM
Wise 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 he 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 ean 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, from the derk 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.
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