Female Death Registration: Year: 1970 number: 3217
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 003217
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Halifax Infirmary
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Cairns, Doris
4. Sex
Female
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
widowed
8. BIRTHPLACE England
9. DATE OF BIRTH 6 13, 1905
10. AGE in Years64 Months10 Days24 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Houseduties
12. Kind of industry at home
13. Date last worked April 2, 1970 14. Total years Life
15. If married name of spouse Late Thomas Cairns
16. NAME of Father John King
17. BIRTHPLACE England
18. NAME of Mother Charlotte Harry
19. BIRTHPLACE England
20. Signature of Informant Elsie Moorhouse
address 2440 Harvard St. Halifax
Relationship to deceased Sister
21. Place of burial Camp Hill
Date of burial May 9 1970
22. Undertaker Cruikshank Funeral Home
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH May 7, 1970
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) arteriosclerotic heart
(b) disease -heart Failure
(c) renal failure
other complete heart block & Ventricular asyslate
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