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Subject: Re: [Cork] MA Burials
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 16:33:34 EDT

Thomas at writes:

<< I have info from a Massachusetts 1920 death certificate which lists in the
burial space ... "Chapter 77 Revised Laws". Any clues as to what that might
mean? The woman, age 62, died in a State Infirmiry from Tuberculosis.>>

Thomas,

As a non-lawyer, but a book collector hobbyist, most of my Mass. law and
court books are from the late 1700's. But I do have more recent sets of the
Mass. General Laws from the 1930's and the 1950's. They both deal with the
same subject under Chapter 77, namely "School Offenders and County Training
Schools". There is nowhere in this "Chapter 77" for anyone other than
"habitual truants" and "habitual school offenders". No reference to adults
at all. Perhaps the reference was meant to read "Chapter 71"? This chapter,
under subsection 55B, refers to "Regulation of communicable tuberculosis;
periodic examination of school personnel; sick leave with pay for afflictees".

There is no mention in this section regarding burial practices, but in 1920,
things may have been different.

Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts

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