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A cause of death in 1842
« on: Thursday 03 September 15 22:19 BST (UK) »
Calling all medical genealogists!

I have a death certificate from 1842 which contains a word I cannot decipher. This 16 year of girl in domestic service obviously died from Typhus. I am aware that one of the possible complications of that condition was ascites (which I think is the second word of the cause of death) - increasing fluid accumulation and swelling in the abdominal cavity. My question is, what is the first word? I have attached a clip from the original death certificate below.

BTW: Was there a typhus epidemic in Lincolnshire in the early 1840s?

Cheers Alan

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Re: A cause of death in 1842
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 03 September 15 22:31 BST (UK) »
Perhaps glossitis?

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Re: A cause of death in 1842
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 03 September 15 22:37 BST (UK) »
The first word may be "Critical". The second word may end in "..ples".

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Re: A cause of death in 1842
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 03 September 15 22:42 BST (UK) »
I thought it could be cardiac but critical seems more likely.
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Re: A cause of death in 1842
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 03 September 15 22:44 BST (UK) »
How about "critical abscesses" (with the old style f instead of an ss). Googling this with typhus fever generates a few results.

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Re: A cause of death in 1842
« Reply #5 on: Friday 04 September 15 08:17 BST (UK) »
Hi Newfloridian, If you Google typhus Lincolnshire 1840-1842 you'll find some stats from Parliamentary Papers (1840)and the Register Office.(1842) It doesn't seem to have been a particularly bad year. Typhus was pretty well endemic in the 19th century. Fran

Parliamentary Papers, House of Commons and Command, Volume 19 (1840)
Annual Report of the Registrar-General for England and Wales, Volumes 6-7 (1842)
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Re: A cause of death in 1842
« Reply #6 on: Friday 04 September 15 09:07 BST (UK) »
How about "critical abscesses" (with the old style f instead of an ss). Googling this with typhus fever generates a few results.

Hi Ayashi

I must admit I hadn't come across that term before, but yes I think I can go with that. Found a reference in Journal of Practice Medicine Volume 28 (Lecture by Mr Caesar Hawkins at St George's Hospital) which uses exactly that term.

I've collected many quaint and / or obsolete terms from death certificates in my time - many, I suspect, covering a multitude of ignorances of the time! Fascinating though

Many thanks

Alan
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Re: A cause of death in 1842
« Reply #7 on: Friday 04 September 15 09:08 BST (UK) »
Hi Newfloridian, If you Google typhus Lincolnshire 1840-1842 you'll find some stats from Parliamentary Papers (1840)and the Register Office.(1842) It doesn't seem to have been a particularly bad year. Typhus was pretty well endemic in the 19th century. Fran

Hi Fran

Many thanks - will do

Alan
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Derby: Naylor, Ball, Haywood
Buckinghamshire: Cook
London: Craxford, Lane Crauford
Tyneside: Nessworthy, Simpson
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You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule."
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Re: A cause of death in 1842
« Reply #8 on: Friday 04 September 15 19:42 BST (UK) »
You get abscesses in the gut with Typhoid fever

Typhus is a different illness  ----
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