Town of Winthrop : Record of Deaths 1963, Part 22

Author: Winthrop (Mass.)
Publication date: 1963
Publisher:
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17 NAME OF


FATHER


Patrick J, Canavan


18 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City).


(State or country )


Cannot learn


Ireland


(Address)


Not. State Hospital May22, 63ª


11 If married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of.


(Husband's name in full)


(a)


Coronary Thrombosis


Bookkeeper


13 Usual


Occupation:


(Kind of work done during most working life)


OTHER


SIGNIFICANT


CONDITIONS


22


1963


(Moifth)


(Day)


(Year)


......


Lexington


(City or Town making this return)


Lexington


(City or Town)


No ..


Metropolitan State Hospital


Received and filed


JUL 1- 1963


19


Records , Metropolitan State


50M - 10-61-931673


3 DATE OF


DEATH


Disease


SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION


DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE DATE OF DISCHARGE RANK, RATING ORGANIZATION AND OUTFIT SERVICE NUMBER


RECEIVER


ENK


6


THROP.


JUL 1 1963 AM


X 1 PLACE OF DEATH


Worcester (County )


Worcester


(City or Town)


No.


St. Mary's Hall,


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts KEVIN H. WHITE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


109


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


Registered No.


1315


f(If death occurred in a hospital or institution.


(Providence House) ... St. 1 give its NAME instead of street and number) PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT


2 FULL NAME


Miss Katherine L. Devereux


( First Name)


( Middle Name)


( last Name)


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


It Was deceased a


I. S. War Veteran,


if


wo sportify WAR)


(a) Residence. No.


Park Avenue,


St


Winthrop, Mass.


(L'sual place of abode)


( If nonresident, give city or town and State)


Length of stay: In place of death


1


years.


... months


... days. In place of residence


[30


y cars


...


months


day4.


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


3 DATE OF


DEATH


May


27


1963


(Month)


(D)ay)


(Year)


HEREBY CERTIFY


That


1


attended deceased from


63


I last saw h .. Lisalive on


have occurred on the date stated above. 1 6 5/ 265


197


, death is said to


DEATH WAS CAUSED BY : IMMEDIATE CAUSE


CORONARY HEART


(a)


İHIERYAL BETWEEN ONSET AND DEATH


Due To


Duxcassa


(b)


YRS


Due To


(c)


OTIIF.R


SIGNIFICANT


CONDITIONS


NONE


Was autopsy performed?


40


W'hat test confirmed diagnosis?


5 W'as disease or injury in any way related to occupation of deceased? If so, specily


(Signedy


MICHAEL B FOX.


Dr ...... Michael .B. Fox ....


( Address?


rint pr Type Nge)


390 MAINST


.Date ..


5/27


1º 63


PARENTS


6


Holyhood Cemetery,


Brookline , Ma


Place of Burial or Cremation


(City of Town)


DATE OF BURIAL


May 29,1963


19


7 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


Arthur R. Nordgren


ADDRESS


300 Lincoln Street,


Received and Blod


MAY ... 2 .. 8.1963


19


Robert J. O'Kefe


(Registrar)


8 SEX


female


9 COLOR


white


10 CITIZEN


OF US.


YES X]


NO


11 SINGLE


MARRIED


WIIX)WED


DIVORCED


UNKNOWN


Hla li married, widowed, or dirorred_


HUSIIAND of


(('ve maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of


(llashand's name in full)


12 DATE OF BIRTH


May 29, 1889


13


A(:E.73


11


28


Years


Months


Days


14 Usual


Retired (about 10 yrs)


(Kind of work done during most of working life)


15 Industry


or Business :


Winthrop School Dept ..


16 Social Security No. Boston


17 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Massachusetts,


18 NAME OF


FATIIER


Joseph J. Devereux


19 TIRTIIPLACE OF


FATHIER (City)


(State or country)


Boston


Mass.


20 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Margaret A. Dolan


21 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


Mass.


Boston


22


Informant


(Address)


Old Colony Rd, ShreRSBBER


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory Woncenter, Mass wayAked with me 1157 & Found rennes (Signature of Agent of Board of Health or other) COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC HEALTH


(Official Designation)


(Date of Issue of Permit)


5/25/65


TIONS


RTIFICATE


ing DEATH enter in one each and (c)


Not mean of dying. failure. It means or campli- ·h caused


if any, rise to se (.). se last.


contrib. · terminal tion given


Chapter 137, 54 requires s to print or cause of death on ifcstes, and 1. Acts of gires Physi- Fint or type r signature.


12 1963 7


9213


5.8


R-301


-


-


If under 24 hours


.Ilour ..


.Minutes


Occupation :


Mrs ... John E. Foote, mister


A TRUE COPY ATTEST:


M. D.


4 1


3/18


16.3. 10 ....


5


51/97


1


1


U


INTERNI


JUN 121963 AM


R-301


1


Winthrop


(City or Town)


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts KEVIN H. WHITE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


(City or Town making this return)


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


2 FULL NAME.


Rocco Vaccaro


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


94 Everett Street


East Boston


(a) Residence. No ..


(Usual place of abode)


25


(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.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


8 SEX


male


9 COLOR


white


10 SINGLE


MARRIED


WIDOWED


DIVORCED


UNKNOWN


(write the word)


married


11 If married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of


Victoria Malvarosa


(or) WIFE of.


(Husband's name in full)


12


77


AGE


Years


Months.


Days


If under 24 hours


Hours ........ Minutes


13 Usual


Occupation:


Retired


14 Industry


or Business :


*****


15 Social Security No ..


none


16 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Italy


17 NAME OF


FATHER


Michael Vaccaro


PARENTS


18 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


(State or country)


Italy


19 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


Pasqualina Barbera


20 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City).


(State or country)


Italy


21 Informant


Victoria Vaccaro (wife)


( Address)


94 Everett St., East, Boston, Mass.


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: Ralph & Leriana (0) (Signature of, Agent of Board of Health or other) Health Office 466220 5 1963


(Official Designation)/


(Date of Issue of Permit)


A TRUE COPY ATTEST:


(Day)


(Year)


Į HEREBY CERTIFY


That I attended deceased from


4


APRIL


1963


to ..


JUNE


2


1963


I last saw hahalive on


MAY 28


1965


death is said to


have occurred on the date stated above, at


99º A


.m.


DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE


(a)


Due To


(b)


PRIMARY CARCINOMA


Due To


RIGHT LUNG


(c)


OTHER


SIGNIFICANT


CONDITIONS


Was autopsy performed?


NC


What test confirmed diagnosis ?


X- Rays-BRONCHOSCOPY


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


(Signature)


Francis 8. Schraffa


M. D.


Francis P. Schraffa, M. D


(Print or Typs Name)


104


Bennington St.,?


.Date


6/4


196.3


Holy Cross Cemetery


Malden


6


Place of Burial or Cremation


(City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL


June 5,


19.


63


7 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


Anthony P. Rapino


ADDRESS


9 Chelsea St., East Boston, Mass.


Received and filed


JUN 5.1963


19


(Registrar)


382


'YPE USES H ter one ach d (c)


t mean dying, failure, t means compli- caused


any, ise to (a), under- last.


contrib- but not terminal n given


PLACE OF DEATH


Suffolk


(County)


120/020 €7-11-7


Mayflower Nursing Home


No


PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT


(Was deceased a


U. S. War Veteran,


(if so specify WAR)


no


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


3 DATE OF


DEATH


June


2,


1963


(Month)


INTERVAL


BETWEEN


ONSET AND


DEATH


24hrs


6mos


Registered No.


rial permit Health ent.


3


FICATE -


St


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(Kind of work done during most working life)


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 : - = (4) 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.


OFFICE OF 6


(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 personis found dead.


7 62 State ort, of Cause of Death .- Physicians: see explanatory instructions bryneside of standard certificate of death.


Statement of Occupation .- Precise statement of occupation is very impor- Ihre thofflative healthfulness of various pursuits can be known. Make O 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


al permit Health t.


1


Nenchron (City or Town) 48 Bellevie


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts KEVIN H. WHITE SECRETARY OF THE COMMONWEALTH DIVISION OF VITAL STATISTICS STANDARD CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


(City or Town making this return)


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.)


48 Bellevue avec


St


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


JUNE


8


1963


(Year)


(Month)


(Day)


4 I HEREBY CERTIFY , That I attended deceased from


DEC 4


1954


to ....


JUNE 5,


I last saw hel alive on


JUNE


2


196., death is said to


have occurred on the date stated above, at


7.20 11m.


DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE


(a)


ACUTE MYOCARDIAL


INPARCHIN


Due To


(b)


ARTERIO-SCLETLETIC


HEART


DIS


Due To


(c)


GENERAL ARTERIOSCLEROSIS


5 YRS


OTHER


SIGNIFICANT


CONDITIONS


DIABETES MELLITUS


&YRS


Was autopsy performed ?


NO


What test confirmed diagnosis ?


CLINICAL


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


(Signature)


M. D.


MYRIN N. KINGM.D


(Print or Type Name)


(Address) 222 PLEASANT SI


Date ..


WINTHUA


SHARON MEM PR


SHARON


Place of Burial or Cremation


(City or Town)


DATE OF BURIAL


JUNE


9


19


7 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR


TORE funeral Service


ADDRESS


15/ Washington Ave Chelsea


Received and filed


JUN 11 1963


19


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


8 SEX


mali


9 COLOR


White


10 SINGLE


MARRIED


WIDOWED


UNKNOWN


MARRIED


11 If married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of


LEATURE SEGAL


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


JENNIE


(Husband's name in full)


(or) wirpof.


INTERVAL


BETWEEN


ONSET AND


12


AGE SS.


DEATH


1 HR.


ears 0 Months.


28


Days


If under 24 hours


Hours ...


Minutes


13 Usual


Occupation


SALESMAN


(Kind of work done during most of working life)


14 Industry


or Business


AUTOMOTIVE


15 Social Security No ..


024-05-7097


16 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country )


BOSTON MASS


17 NAME OF


FATHER


BARNETT GILLER


18 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City) ..


(State or country)


Russia


19 MAIDEN NAME


OF MOTHER


LENA ((BE) GARDER


20 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


Russia


21 Informant


MRS JENNIE GILLER


(Address)


48 BELLEVUE Ave Winthrop


I HEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: luiph 8 Hereanna (3)


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


Dewith Offices


Lines 10,1963


(Date of Issue of Permit)


1


A TRUE COPY ATTEST:


(Registrar) (Official Designation)


553


-


zny, e to (a), der - last. ontrib- ut not rminal given


PLACE OF DEATH


X Suffolk (County)


No ... Robert Siller


Registered No.


II


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


(City or town and State)


PE JSES 1


r ne ch (c) mean dying, ailure, means ompli- caused


S


CATE


(Was deceased a


U. S. War Veteran,


(if so specify WAR) ..


(write the word)


PARENTS


6/8/63


6


,63


5YRS


SPACE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION


DATE OF ENTERING MILITARY SERVICE Sent 1 1943


July 4 1944


DATE OF DISCHARGE


Put


RANK, RATING


MED. Section Hatrs 620 Service Lin


ORGANIZATION AND OUTFIT


SERVICE NUMBER 3/419943


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 bad 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.


G


INTHROI


JUN 1 11963 AM


PLACE OF DEATH


X 508801K (County) WINTHROP 1 (City or Town) BasTon 6-20-63


The Commonwealth of Massachusetts EDWARD J. CRONIN 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.


St. [give its NAME instead of street and number) No. Winthrop Convales CENT Home


2 FULL NAME


CARMEN SANTUCCI


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


(a) Residence.


No


90 Rieffmond St


St


Boston Mass


(If nonresident, give city or town and State)


Length of stay: In place of death


1 years.


months.


days. In place of residence


... years


months.


days.


PERSONAL AND STATISTICAL PARTICULARS


8 SEX


Male


9 COLOR


White


10 SINGLE


(write the word)


MARRIED


WIDOWED


or DIVORCED


Widowed


10a If married, widowed, or divorced


HUSBAND of


(Give maiden name of wife in full)


(or) WIFE of


Unknown


(Husband's name in full)


11 IF STILLBORN, enter that fact here.


12


AGE & Years.


6 Months


2.3


Days


If under 24 hours


Hours .......


Minutes


Occupation :


13 Usual


Information unavaible


(Kind of work done during most of working life)


14 Industry


or Business:


15 Social Security No ..


113-07-16.38


16 BIRTHPLACE (City)


(State or country)


Italy


17 NAME OF


FATHER


Information unavailable


18 BIRTHPLACE OF


FATHER (City)


(State or country)


Italy


19 MAIDEN NAME


E Information unavailable


OF MOTHER


20 BIRTHPLACE OF


MOTHER (City)


(State or country)


Italy


21


Informant


.


Unavacbale


(Address)


Nursing Home Records


7 NAME OF


FUNERAL DIRECTOR OrNest PCAGGIANO


ADDRESS


147 Winthrop St Winthrop


Received and filed JUN 14 1963 19


(Registrar)


PARENTS


Joseph Palermo M. D.


(Signed)


(Address) REVERE


Date JUNE 12 1963.


6 FAIRVIEW


Place of Burial or Cremation DATE OF BURIAL


June


19 63


Boston Mass


(City or Town)


18


60M-1-58-921876


A


S


CATE


ATH


h (c) mean dying. failure, means ompli- caused


any, 10 (a). der- last.


Due To (c)


OTHER


SIGNIFICANT


CONDITIONS


Vo


Was autopsy performed?


What test confirmed diagnosis? CLINICAL


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


If so, specify


MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH


3 DATE OF


DEATH


JUNE


(Month)


(Day)


12


1963


(Year)


4 I HEREBY CERTIFY,


FEB. 15


, 1959


to ...


JUNE 12


That I attended deceased from


19.63


I last saw hh alive on


JUNE


11


. 19 6 2, death is said to


have occurred on the date stated above, at


730P


m.


DEATH WAS CAUSED BY: IMMEDIATE CAUSE


CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE


(a)


INTERVAL


BETWEEN


ONSET AND


DEATH


2 DAYS


Due To GENERALIZED ARTERIOSCLEROSIS (b)


15 YRS


Registered No.


f(If death occurred in a hospital or institution,


No


PHYSICIAN - IMPORTANT


1


(Was deceased a


U. S. War Veteran,


if so specify WAR)


(Usual place of abode)


I HIEREBY CERTIFY that a satisfactory standard certificate of death was filed with me BEFORE the burial or transit permit was issued: Ralph E Serianni (R) (Signature of Agent of Board of licalth or other) Wealth Officer June 14, 1963


(Official Designation ))


(Date of Issue of Permit)


strib- t not minal given


₹ 137, quires Int or e or b on


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 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 nincteen 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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