Male Death Registration: Year: 1971 number: 6846
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PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA — REGISTRATION OF DEATH
02 - 006846
1. PLACE OF DEATH County of Halifax If in City or Town Halifax
If death occured in a hospital or institution Victoria General Hospital
3. PRINT NAME OF DECEASED Merritt, Walter David
4. Sex
Male
5. Citizenship
Canadian
6. Racial Origin
English
7. Single, Married
married
8. BIRTHPLACE Springhill, Cumberland County
9. DATE OF BIRTH 4 16, 1916
10. AGE in Years55 Months7 Days8 | hrs or mins
11. Trade or profession Retired Business Owner
12. Kind of industry Office Equipment
13. Date last worked 1965 14. Total years 15 years
15. If married name of spouse Agnes Merritt
16. NAME of Father David Walter Merritt
17. BIRTHPLACE Cape Breton, NS
18. NAME of Mother Margaret MacIntosh
19. BIRTHPLACE Cape Breton
20. Signature of Informant Mr. David Merritt
address 6004 Leeds Street, Halifax, NS
Relationship to deceased Son
21. Place of burial Gate of Heaven Cemetery, Lower Sackville, NS
Date of burial 26 November 1971
22. Undertaker Cruikshank Funeral Home
MEDICAL CERTIFICATE OF DEATH
23. DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1971
CAUSE OF DEATH
(a) Salicylate Poisoning
(b)
(c)
other Schizophrenia
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