Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1963, Part 10

Author: Winthrop (Mass.)
Publication date: 1963
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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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