Cause of Death?

[anabanana]

Hi all,  My ancestor died of a "Disease of Spinal Cord" 1 year and another condition listed below, left.  Can someone decipher what it may be?  Also the entry to the right relates to the cause of death for my ancestor's sister.  Could the two conditions be linked/hereditary?  Neither of the girls made it beyond their 30's.  Their mother also died young of "Womb Cancer".

Kind regards, and thanks.

[Gadget]

I think the one on the left is Uraemia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uremia

The right one is lumbar abcess. I don't think they're related.

My great grandmother and 3 of her daughters died of uterine cancer. I think I read somewhere that it was inherited in the female line. Fortunately for me, this was my father's line. 


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[Billyblue]

Agree with uraemia and lumbar abscess.

Uraemia is kidney failure.

the spinal cord disease and lumbar abscess might be related, though not the sort of thing that one would think of as hereditary, unless they were both related to cancer.

Dawn M

[Annie65115]

As is so often the case, think TB as a possibility.

Psoas abscess was a common problem with TB of the lumbar spine. Whilst that's not in the same part of the body as a lumbar abscess, I'd have thought that the abscess pointing out into the lumber area rather than tracking down would be perfectly possible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psoas_muscle_abscess

You get uraemia in renal failure btw.

[anabanana]

Thank  you ladies for your help.  Lumbar Abcess - I could only see Lumbar Ascess - which didnt seem to make any sense.  So thanks for clarifying that for me.  I will look more into TB, and see if I can find details about its existence in Keith, Banffshire in the 19th C.

Kindest regards

A

[Billyblue]

TB was practically endemic, anywhere, in the 19th century and before.

Now almost eradicated, but not quite!

Dawn M

[Annie65115]

It's nowhere near eradicated; rates have dropped in the UK but not worldwide.

(2009 figures - 14-15 cases/100,000 folk in UK. Highest rate amongst those of Black African background - 199/100,000. Several "hotspots" for TB in the UK, where figures are substantially higher than the national average, including several London boroughs, Heart of Birmingham, Leicester City and Luton.  Worldwide several billion people still suffer from TB with the highest rates in the southern half of the African continent; rates over 1200/100,000 in Swaziland).

Here endeth today's Public Health module 

[weste]

Uraemia, lumbar abcess.

[Billyblue]

It's nowhere near eradicated; rates have dropped in the UK but not worldwide.

(2009 figures - 14-15 cases/100,000 folk in UK. Highest rate amongst those of Black African background - 199/100,000. Several "hotspots" for TB in the UK, where figures are substantially higher than the national average, including several London boroughs, Heart of Birmingham, Leicester City and Luton. Worldwide several billion people still suffer from TB with the highest rates in the southern half of the African continent; rates over 1200/100,000 in Swaziland).

Here endeth today's Public Health module

Annie, perhaps I should have said 'in Australia' then.  But since we've been getting all the African refugees, we find quite a few of them come in, with TB.  Of course the authorities don't make this widely known - I happen to know that bit cause I used to work in Kids Emergency in a local hospital.

    
Dawn M