Death Certificate of Plaridel

Dr. Jose P. Bantug's notes on Plaridel's illness, hospitalization and death certificate. Dr. Jose P. Bantug, while passing through Barcelona, took the following notes from the books of the hospital where Del Pilar received medical treatment: "Extenuated by the disease which had been undermining that iron constitution (Del Pilar's) for some time, he was taken to the Sta. Cruz Hospital in Barcelona. At the beginning he was in the surgical ward, but, seeing that all surgical intervention was useless, they transferred him to the medical ward, the Sala de Santo Tomfs, Bed No. 11. In this ward, distant from the beautiful country "where he had left pieces of his heart", he died, according to Dr. Bellini, who treated him during his last days, of general tuberculosis, at a quarter past one in the morning of July 4, 1896." The death certificate is as follows: A stamp: "12th Class-10 Cents."-B-6.640.339. D. JULIAN CASANOVAS.Y VILLA, Presbyter licensed in Sacred Theology, Receiving Officer of this Sta. Cruz Hospital, Barcelona. I CERTIFY: That in one of the record-books of deaths on file in this office, there appears the following entry: "On July fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, at a quarter past one o'clock in the morning, in this Sta. Cruz Hospital, Barcelona, there died, of a natural death, MARCELO DEL PILAR GATMAYTAN, a native of BULACAN (overseas), resident of Barcelona, forty-five years of age, journalist, married to MARCIANA DEL PILAR, daughter of JULIAN AND BLASA. He received the holy sacraments. He was buried in the south-west cemetery. -(Sgd.) ESTEBAN TEIXIDO, Presbyter. Prior." A true copy. Barcelona, July twenty-ninth, Nineteen hundred and ten. (Sgd.) JULIAN CASANOVAS. Prbr. Seal: "Hospital de Sta. Cruz," "Barcelona." ____________________ --EPIFANIO DE LOS SANTOS 'Marcelo H. del Pilar'(PLARIDEL) Revista Filipina [The Philippine Review] Manila. 1930