Certificate of Death, Omaha, Neb., "Fritz Hoehna"
date: label: Date made
content: 1905
notes: label: Description
content: Preprinted postal card addressed to Health Commissioner, Omaha, Neb. Reverse has printed notification of death form - filled out for Fritz Hoehna, age 54 years, white male; Cause of death, chief: "interstidal nephritis" [interstitial?]; Cause of death, contributing: "double organic heart lesion and resulting dropsy." Date of death: August 5, 1905. The Certificate of Death was previously stapled to the postal card death record and includes similar information. Age incorrectly recorded as 43 years; cause of death recorded as "nephritis."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Nebraska, Omaha
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content: Medicine and Science: Medicine
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.3069.02
label: nonaccession number
content: 1989.3069
label: catalog number
content: 1989.3069.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Post Card
label: Object Name
content: Certificate of Death
label: Object Name
content: postcard
label: Object Name
content: certificate of death
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: postal card: 8.3 cm x 14 cm; 3 9/32 in x 5 1/2 in
label: Measurements
content: death certificate: 9.7 cm x 12.7 cm; 3 13/16 in x 5 in