Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 1464
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 001464
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cumberland If in City or Town Amherst
If death occured in a hospital or institution Highland View Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Taggart, Hugh Stewart
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
single
8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
9. DATE OF BIRTH 8 9, 1909
10. AGE in Years61 Months4 Days27 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession
12. Kind of industry Laborer
13. Date last worked 1970 14. Total years 40
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father Hugh Taggart
17. BIRTHPLACE Parrsboro
18. NAME of Mother Alice Curtis
19. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
20. Signature of Informant Mildred M. Smith
address Parrsboro
Relationship to deceased From Hospital Records
21. Place of burial Parrsboro
Date of burial January 8, 1971
22. Undertaker S.W. Smith & Son, Ltd., Parrsboro
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Gastric Aspiration
(b) Inoperable cancer involving pancreas, stomach, spleen, L kidney and adrenal, colon, small bowel
(c)
other
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