Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 5876
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 005876
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Cape Breton If in City or Town Sydney
If death occured in a hospital or institution D.O.A. Sydney City Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Murray, Leslie John
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
Scottish
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE St. George's Chapel, C.B.
9. DATE OF BIRTH 10 , 1924
10. AGE in Years46 Months Days | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Miner - Dominion Coal Co.
12. Kind of industry Compensation
13. Date last worked 1966 14. Total years
15. If married name of spouse Bridget Madden
16. NAME of Father Murray
17. BIRTHPLACE
18. NAME of Mother Tena McMillan
19. BIRTHPLACE West Bay
20. Signature of Informant James D. Murray
address 53 Hillside Ave., Glace Bay
Relationship to deceased Son
21. Place of burial St. John's Cemetery, Glace Bay
Date of burial September 30, 1971
22. Undertaker V.J. McGillivary Funeral Homes Limited, 16 Reserve St., Glace Bay
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Pulmonary Edema due to aspiration of vomitus while in a state of alcoholism
(b)
(c)
other
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