21.   Arrayed in booths like at a convention center, the agencies offer help obtaining death certificates or money for rent, food, funeral expenses.

22.   Aronson said the unaltered brief and the death certificate might be enough.

23.   Birth certificates and infant or fetal death certificates often do not mention such conditions.

24.   - Grieving families began applying for death certificates in New York for the victims of the attack that destroyed the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

25.   A family physician, aware of his condition, signed a death certificate indicating he had died from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

26.   A copy of the death certificate should be enclosed with the letter.

27.   A death certificate filed last Friday said the infant suffered from a cerebral abnormality called schizencephaly.

28.   A review of death certificates conducted for the government points to higher numbers of deaths among elderly women who were patients of Shipman starting that year.

29.   A spokeswoman for the Department of Corrections, Christine May, said physician participation is limited to declaring the condemned inmate dead and signing a death certificate.

30.   All the numbers will presumably go up as the final death certificates are compiled.