Anoeinia - what does it mean

[2shea]

Anoeinia  - this is the cause of death of my gt gt grandfather's first child Catherine Gallington in 1870.

Does anyone know what this means. She was only 2 months old when she died at the Clerkenwell Workhouse.


2shea
 -

[Tati]

Hi 2shea,

Just wondering ... could it be anaemia?

[2shea]

I did google the word and seems to have appeared in medical terms but no explanation.

Will have another try

[jorose]

If you google your spelling you get things like hits to NZ paper past - these are automated transcriptions (normally via "Optical Character Recognition" of newspaper articles) and when you look at them you see what has been transcribed as "anoeinia" is actually anĉmia spelt the old fashioned way. It often looks like more like œ rather than ĉ in certain typefaces, and OCR systems generally aren't set up to deal very well with ligatures etc.

Anaemia in pregnancy is connected with low birth-weights and health problems for both mother and child (it is still a contributing factor to infant mortality in some parts of the world).

[Little Nell]

Anaemia: lack of sufficient red blood cells.  This in turn means less haemaglobin in the blood  Anyone can be anaemic, not just pregnant women.  Generally makes the person look extremely pale a lot of the time, they are tired, feel weak, breathless.  It was quite common and could easily be a cause of death in infants.

Nell

[2shea]

Thanks for sorting this out, Anaemia seems to be the right word.

Poor wee Catherine died at 2months in the workhouse, so may not have had much of a chance.

Thanks

2shea