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Title: What is this illness
Post by: Stanwix England on Tuesday 11 May 21 19:32 BST (UK)

Hi,

I'm going over a medical record and I've found this entry. I'm wondering it it's typhoid or something like that as the first few letters look like typh to me. I can't make head nor tail of the next bit. It must have been something contagious as it's described as a contagion later on in the document.

Thank you

Title: Re: What is this illness
Post by: PaulineJ on Tuesday 11 May 21 19:57 BST (UK)

I thought the first letter was an S.

Give the URL if its an online document

Title: Re: What is this illness
Post by: Kiltaglassan on Tuesday 11 May 21 20:02 BST (UK)

Can you post a bigger snip for letter comparison & give info. from the cert/record. to help the experts here help you?

Title: Re: What is this illness
Post by: nanny jan on Tuesday 11 May 21 20:08 BST (UK)

Syph Prim? Primary syphilis?

Title: Re: What is this illness
Post by: Stanwix England on Tuesday 11 May 21 20:10 BST (UK)

Thanks so much everyone. It could be Syph for syphilis I suppose.

It's a document on Ancestry so I can't give a URL. It's a military record for Ralph Harwood in the UK, British Army World War 1 Service Records, 1914-1920. (Although he actually died in 1900, so I'm not really sure why it's included there).

I attach another clip. Unfortunately it's a medical record and this line is the only one signed by the particular individual who wrote this information, so there isn't much to go on. The rest of the page has been filled out by other people. So this is all the example there is.

Title: Re: What is this illness
Post by: GR2 on Tuesday 11 May 21 20:14 BST (UK)

Syph Prim - primary syphilis

Title: Re: What is this illness
Post by: Stanwix England on Tuesday 11 May 21 20:34 BST (UK)

Thank you, that clears things up.