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Sat 11 Nov 2002Change in boy's death certificate said to be clerical errorA Department of Health spokesman has confirmed that a copy of a death certificate for a boy who died in St Joseph's Industrial School in Tralee, Co Kerry, issued by the General Register Office in Dublin, gave a different cause of death to the original certificate issued in Killarney.The Registrar of Births and Deaths in Killarney, Ms Mary O'Shea, said the death certificate for 16-year-old Joseph Pyke, who died on February 9th, 1958, at the County Hospital, Tralee, where he was transferred from the industrial school, was "Bilateral Pleural Effusion. Septicaemia. Certified".