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20 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country) Italy
Anselmo Frasso
21 Informant
(Address)
231 Court Rd., 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 office
March 51,6.3
(Official Designation) (Date of Issue of Permit)
T V.A.
A TRUE COPY ATTEST:
3,
1963
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
HEREBY CERTIFY, That I attended deceased from
MAY 15, 1959
I last saw helblive on
MAR
3. 1969,
death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
3 20 Am.
INTERVAL BETWEEN ONSET AND DEATH
Due '
(b)
WITH METASTASIS TO
Due
(c)
LIVER WITH JAUNDICE
IMO
OTHER SIGNIFICANT CONDITIONS
Was autopsy performed
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
PATHOLOGICAL
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? NO If so, specify ......
(Signature) murin . Thing M. D. MYRON N. KINGMOD
(Print or Type Name)
(Address) 222 PLEASANT ST .. Date ....... 3/4 1963
WINTHROP
6
jinthrop Cemetery, Winthrop
Place of l'urial or Cremation
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
March 6,
1963
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Ernest P. Caggiano
ADDRESS
147
Winthrop St., Winthrop
Received and filed
MAR * 1963
19
(Registrar)
2-932382
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR).
no
(Usual place of abode)
1 years 1 months
3 DATE OF
DEATH
March
to MAR
3
1963
DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE
(a) CARCINOMA OF GALL BLADDER 3MO
If under 24 hours
Hours ....
Minutes
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
Registered No.
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.
-
FORM R-301
d for burial permit Board of Health · its Agent. STRUCTIONS FOR AL CERTIFICATE
IT OR TYPE OR CAUSES DEATH
not enter re than one se for each ). (b) and (c)
does not mean ode of dying, s heart failure, a, etc. It means ease, or compli- which caused
itions, if any, h gave rise to e cause (a), ag the under- cause last.
nditions contrib- o death but not to the terminal condition given
X
PLACE OF DEATH
Suffolk
(County)
-
Winthrop
(City or Town)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts KEVIN H. WHITE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS
STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
Registered No. 48
[(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, .St. { give its NAME instead of street and number)
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
2 FULL NAME.
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
83 Chester Ave. Winthrop Mass
S
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death .......... years .......
months.13.days. In place of residence.
years .......... months .......... days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
9 COLOR
(write the word)
3 DATE OF
DEATH
March
4
1963
(Month) (Day)
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY
2/15, 63
to ...........
3/4
That I attended deceased, from 19
have occurred on the date stated above, at
12:0 Pm
DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE
NEPIPRO SCLEROSIS
(a)
Due To GENERAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS (b)
AND ARTERIOSCLERULIC
2yes
Due To HEART DIS - MURICULAR
(c)
FIBRILLATION ERE, BUTDIE
BRANCH BLOCK -
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
PULMONARY INFARCTION
200Kg
1.0
Was autopsy performed?
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
CLINICHE 1 XRAY
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased 0 6 If so, specify
(Signature)
M. D.
MYRON NIKING M.D
(Print or Type Name)
3/4 ,63 19.
HOLYCROSS CEMETERY MALDEN, MASS 6
Place of Burial or Cremation
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
MARCH
7.
19 .. 63
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTORJOHN .... G ........ WELSH
ADDRESS 7.18 BROADWAY CHELSEA MASS
Received and filed
MAR 5 1963
19
-62-932382
A TRUE COPY ATTEST:
(Registrar)|| (Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit)
1 VPV
INTERVAL
(or) WIFE
12
AGE81
BETWEEN
ONSET AND
DEATH
1YR
Years.
Months ..
.Days
If under 24 hours
Hours .......
Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation
LABORER
(Kind of work done during most working life)
14 Industry
or Business:
CHELSEA CLOCK CO.
15 Social Security No.
032-01-7879A
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
IRELAND
17 NAME OF
FATHER
EDWARD SHEEHAN
PARENTS
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
IRELAND
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
MARY
DRINAN
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City) ..
(State or country)
IRELAND
21 Informant
SISTER JOSEPH MIRIAM S.P.
(Address)
16 TUDOR ST. CHELSEA MASS
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me'BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued:
Lejeanne
1
.......
(Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other)
Hereth vificar
marchs
,613
(City or Town making this return)
No ..
Winthrop Community Hospital
Michael Sheehan
(Was deceased a U. S. War Veteran, (if so specify WAR) NO
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
DIVORCED
UNKNOWN
WIDOWED
MALE
WHITE
I last saw
halive on
3/4/63
death is said to
11 If married, widowed, or divorced HUSBAND of JULIA DEASY
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(Husband's name in full)
(a) Residence. No ....
(Usual place of abode)
(Address)
VILPLEASANT
SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE
DATE OF DISCHARGE RANK, RATING
ORGANIZATION AND OUTFIT
SERVICE NUMBER.
RULES OF PRACTICE 31
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 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)
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts KEVIN H. WHITE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS JIAD- STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
(City or Town making this return)
1
Winthrop
(City or Town)
Winthrop Community Hospital No.
S(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,
St. ( give its NAME instead of street and number)
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
2 FULL NAME
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
26 Beacon St. Winthrop Mass
St
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death .......... years .......... months.
3 .days. In place of residence 50,
years months .......... days.
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 DATE OF
DEATH
MARCH
6
1963
(Month)
(Day)
(Year)
4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,
MAR. 2,
19 63
to.
MAR. 6
1963
I last saw hERalive on
MARCH
6
19.La.3, death is said to
have occurred on the date stated above, at
5:45 Am.
DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE
(a) CARDIAC DECOMPENSATION
(b)
Due To (c)
BRONCHO PNEUMONIA
3 DAYS
Was autopsy performed?
NO
What test confirmed diagnosis ?
5 Was disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased ? If so, specify
(Signature) an Caplan Mw M. D.
A. M.LAPLAN MI
(Print or Type Name)
(Address) SEPRINCETONSI .Date .....
3-6- . 1963
FAST BOSTON MASS
6
Winthrop
Winthrop Mass
Place of Burial or Cremation
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL Mar.ch ..... 8 .. , 19.6.3
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Arthur J. O'Maley
ADDRESS Winthrop Mass.
MAR 7 1963
Received and filed
19
........
......
(Registrar ) | (Official Designation)
(Date of Issue of Permit)
A TRUE COPY ATTEST:
8 SEX
Female
9 COLOR
White
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWEIMarried
DIVORCED
UNKNOWN
11 If married, widowed, or divorced
HUSBAND of
Ernest Anderson
(Give maiden name of wife in full)
(Husband's name in full)
12
AGE
50
Years
Months ..
.. Days
If under 24 hours
.. Hours ........ Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation :
Housewife
(Kind of work done during most working life)
14 Industry
or Business :
Own Home
15 Social Security No.
019-14-6558
Lynn
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country )
Mass
17 NAME OF FATHER Lester Thompkins
PARENTS
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
New York
(State or country)
New York
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Marion Gundersen
20 BIRTHPLACE OF
MOTHER (City).
(State or country )
Norway
Helen McEachern
21 Informant
( Address)
62 Beacon 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) Sraith Offerin
March 7 1963
X
FORM R-301
d for burial permit Board of Health its Agent. STRUCTIONS FOR AL CERTIFICATE
IT OR TYPE OR CAUSES DEATH not enter re than one se for each ). (b) and (c)
does not mean ode of dying, s heart failure, a, etc. It means ease, or compli- which caused
itions, if any, h gave rise to e cause (a), ng the under- cause last.
nditions contrib- o death but not to the terminal condition given
11.
-62-932382
A h
Ethel
Tompkins Anderson
(Was deceased a U. S. War Veteran, (if so specify WAR)
No
(a) Residence. No ..
(Usual place of abode)
That I attended deceased from
INTERVAL
BETWEEN
ONSET AND
DEATH
4 DAYS
Due To
RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE
30YRS
OTHER
SIGNIFICANT
CONDITIONS
LEFT BREAST AMPUTATED TOURS
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
(write the word)
(or) WIFE of
Registered No. .....
SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE
DATE OF DISCHARGE RANK, RATING
ORGANIZATION AND OUTFIT
SERVICE NUMBER
23 1
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 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.
×
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.
50
[(If death occurred in a hospital or institution, St. [give its NAME instead of street and number) No.
Francia Muse
(If deceased is a married, widowed or divorced woman, give also maiden name.)
11 Moore St
St
(If nonresident, give city or town and State)
Length of stay: In place of death ..
1
years.
-
months.
7 days. In place of residence. years. months. days.
PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS
8 SEX
Male
9 COLOR
White
10 SINGLE
MARRIED
WIDOWED
or DIVORCED
(write the word) Divorced
10a If married, widowed of divorced herald HUSBAND of
(Give maiden bame of wife in full)
Jessetime of Pucko
(or) WIFE of
(Husband's name in full)
11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.
12
53
AGE
Years.
Months
Days
If under 24 hours
Hours ...... Minutes
13 Usual
Occupation :
Stevadove
(Kind of work done during most of working life)
14 Industry
or Business : ...
Longshoreman
15 Social Security No.
022-16-6389
16 BIRTHPLACE (City)
(State or country)
mare
17 NAME OF
FATHER
2
muse
18 BIRTHPLACE OF
FATHER (City)
(State or country)
3
19 MAIDEN NAME
OF MOTHER
Mary Doherty
2
20 BIRTHPLACE OF MOTHER (City) (State or country)
21 John Fitzpatrick
Informant (Address) 1200 Haverhill St Handling
I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: Capl & Airianno (Signature,of Agent of Board of Health or other)
Hearth Officer
March 111963
(Official Designation,
(Date of Issue of Permit)
T
X
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
3 DATE OF
DEATH
MARCH
6
1963
(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
5:45 P.m.
DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE
(a) Death presumably to naturel
INTERVAL BETWEEN DNSET AND DEATH
Due To Causes, possibly either an (b) ,
acute
Coronary occlusion of a cereb embolus. Due To (c) Winthrop Board of Health
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)
M. D. Wiretterap Maso Date 3/6/163
6 March 9 Warburry
Place of Burial or Cremation March 9
(City or Town)
DATE OF BURIAL
7 NAME OF
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
Ernest Playgrano
ADDRESS 147 Winthur St Nurtured
Received and filed MAR 11 1963 19
(Registrar)
PARENTS
SOM-5-36-917573
IR-301A 1
RUCTIONS FOR CERTIFICATE giving OF DEATH ot enter than one for each (b) and (c)
does not mean e of dying, heart failure, etc. It means e. or compli- which caused
ns, if any, gave rise to cause
(a), the under- cause last.
ions contrib -- death but not the terminal ondition given 11-2. Chapter 137, 1954, requires ns to print or e cause or of death on rtIficates.
To be filed for burlai permit with Board of Health or Its Agent.
Braemar Reat Home
PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT
(Was deceased a
U. S. War Veteran,
if so specify WAR)
no
2 FULL NAME
(a) Residence.
No.
(Usual place of abode)
East Bouton
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 discase 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 ninetcen 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 or 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).
RULES OF PRACTICE
The fulfillment of the purpose of these laws calls for the observance of the follow- ing 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 unrelated to any form of injury.
(2) Board of Health physicians will certify to such deaths only as those of persons who, though disabled by recognized disease unrelated to any form of injury, have died without 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 occupation, the sudden deaths of persons not disabled by recognized disease, and those of persons found dead.
Statement of Cause of Death .- Physicians: see explanatory instructions on face side of standard certificate of death.
Statement of Occupation .- Precise statement of occupation is very import- ant, so that the relative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known. Make some entry in this section for every person aged 10 years or over. If the occupa- tion had been given up or changed, or if the deceased had retired from business, report the kind of work done during most of working life even if retired. Children not gainfully employed may be returned as at school or at home. For a woman whose only occupation was that of home housework, write housework. For a person engaged in domestic service for wages, however, designate the occupation by the appropriate terms, as housekeeper-private family, cook-hotel, etc. For a person who had no occupation whatever write none.
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