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Chronic what?
« on: Thursday 11 January 18 09:48 GMT (UK) »
What was this person suffering from?

Chronic something or the other

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Re: Chronic what?
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 11 January 18 09:49 GMT (UK) »
Catarrh??

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Re: Chronic what?
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 11 January 18 09:59 GMT (UK) »
Chronic Catarrh can lead to loss of smell, loss of taste, loss of hearing,  loss of sight, and can impact on mental health. 

Even more significantly, it can be fatal -  consumption. 

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Re: Chronic what?
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 11 January 18 10:06 GMT (UK) »

Looks like Catarrh
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Re: Chronic what?
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 11 January 18 10:06 GMT (UK) »
Thank you. I also saw it as catarrah but thought I must be misreading it!

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« Reply #5 on: Thursday 11 January 18 10:24 GMT (UK) »
Often the people recording the cause of death did not know the exact spelling of medical conditions.They spelled them phonetically,leaving us with problems.
They presumably had a death certificate but Doctor,s handwriting is notoriously illegible.
If no certificate was presented,and surely there must have been,take just one condition which today is mis-pronounced so imagine  over a hundred years ago------Prostate cancer----- very frequently called Prostrate cancer
by lay people today.
As has been said,catarrh is a symptom as well as a condition and the where it manifests as a symptom there can be very serious underlying conditions.
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« Reply #6 on: Thursday 11 January 18 10:42 GMT (UK) »
Sorry, I should have said - this was on the 1911 census in the last column.
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