Thomas at teu@berkshire.rr.com writes: << I have info from a Massachusetts 1920 death certificate which lists in the burial space ... "Chapter 77 Revised Laws". Any clues as to what that might mean? The woman, age 62, died in a State Infirmiry from Tuberculosis.>> Thomas, As a non-lawyer, but a book collector hobbyist, most of my Mass. law and court books are from the late 1700's. But I do have more recent sets of the Mass. General Laws from the 1930's and the 1950's. They both deal with the same subject under Chapter 77, namely "School Offenders and County Training Schools". There is nowhere in this "Chapter 77" for anyone other than "habitual truants" and "habitual school offenders". No reference to adults at all. Perhaps the reference was meant to read "Chapter 71"? This chapter, under subsection 55B, refers to "Regulation of communicable tuberculosis; periodic examination of school personnel; sick leave with pay for afflictees". There is no mention in this section regarding burial practices, but in 1920, things may have been different. Pete Schermerhorn, in the glorious Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts