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Walter David Merritt death at Halifax, Halifax County on November 24, 1971

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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