Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 1862
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 001862
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town North Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution St Elizabeth Hospital North Sydney, NS
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Garrett, Gavin
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
single
8. BIRTHPLACE Nova Scotia
9. DATE OF BIRTH 5 4, 1912
10. AGE in Years58 Months9 Days8 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession labourer
12. Kind of industry labouring
13. Date last worked 1965 14. Total years 30
15. If married name of spouse
16. NAME of Father James Garrett
17. BIRTHPLACE Scotland
18. NAME of Mother Jean Tait
19. BIRTHPLACE Scotland
20. Signature of Informant [Disraeli?] Stephenson
address 49 Clyde Ave, Sydney Mines, NS
Relationship to deceased cousin
21. Place of burial Brookside Cemetery, Sydney Mines, NS
Date of burial February 15, 1971
22. Undertaker Fillmore &Whitman Funeral Home Ltd, Sydney Mines, NS
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Aspiration pneumonia x2 days
(b) Bleeding Duodenal Ulcer
(c) Cellulitis x2days
other
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