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Offline Geoff E

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Cause of Death
« on: Tuesday 03 April 07 09:26 BST (UK) »
I think I have it now, but will leave it here for people to practice on ;)
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Re: Cause of Death
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 03 April 07 09:30 BST (UK) »
 kidney disease !!!!!!!!!!
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Re: Cause of Death
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 03 April 07 21:23 BST (UK) »
Chronic Nephritis
Months
Apoplexy days

Are we all agreed?
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Re: Cause of Death
« Reply #3 on: Friday 13 April 07 13:07 BST (UK) »
Not sure about "months", but I also can't work out what it might say.  Always a bit difficult without the other samples of handwriting elsewhere on the certificate.

Isn't it a bit odd that there aren't any figures for how long s/he had suffered?
Lancashire: Stevenson, Wild, Holden, Jepson
Worcs/Staffs: Steventon, Smith
East London & Suffolk: Guest, Scrutton
East London: Palfreman (prev Tyneside), Bissell, Collis, Dearlove, Ettridge
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London & Huntingdonshire: Freeman
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Re: Cause of Death
« Reply #4 on: Friday 13 April 07 19:47 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Aulus on Friday 13 April 07 13:07 BST (UK)
Not sure about "months", but I also can't work out what it might say.  Always a bit difficult without the other samples of handwriting elsewhere on the certificate.

Isn't it a bit odd that there aren't any figures for how long s/he had suffered?

You could be right about "months" ... since chronic means it's been a lasting condition anyway.

I can't spot Joseph DICKSON on the 1901 census either (image from death cert was 1898 in Whitehaven, Cumberland).
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Re: Cause of Death
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 14 April 07 13:05 BST (UK) »
Myositis  inflammation of the muscles

Perhaps they didn't know how many days it was and the family just said "days".  They may not have been able to afford a doctor.

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Suffolk: Gooch, Crosby, Turner
Hampshire: Laws, Burrows
Kent: Beer
Jersey: Barette, de Gruchy
East London: Middleton, Gower, O'Farrell, Smith, Weston

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Re: Cause of Death
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 14 April 07 14:36 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Sylviaann on Saturday 14 April 07 13:05 BST (UK)
Myositis  inflammation of the muscles

Perhaps they didn't know how many days it was and the family just said "days".  They may not have been able to afford a doctor.

Sylviaann

Thanks ... myositis is a possibility (I thought it was a flower!)

On the doctor point, someone must have come up with those fancy words.  I doubt it was the son who registered the death that thought them up - he thought his mam was 69 when she was really about 81.
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Re: Cause of Death
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 14 April 07 14:47 BST (UK) »
It seems clear that it's 'Months'.  There's no 'y' - that's the top of the 'l' from the 'Apoplexy' in the line below.

'Months' also fits in with the normal format of death certs i.e. that the disease or diseases were specified with, after each disease, the length of time it had been present.  Thus: Chronic Nephritis - months; Apoplexy - days.  Yes, unusual not to have more precision - but at least the medico was consistent!

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