cause of death

[HughC]

Could somebody please decipher the cause of death for me?

[Kiltaglassan]

The bottom half maybe reads:

Natural decay
      of
body and mind
Certified

[hanes teulu]

I think the second line reads "about 3 months"?

[JenB]

[something]
about 3 months
Bronchitis
Natural decay
of
Body and mind

[HughC]

Thanks for your help, folks.

Does anyone know whether gout was a euphemism for something else in the 19th century?
I've found one person who died of "gout in the stomach" and another of "metastatic gout".
Isn't it usually cancer that forms metastases?

Altogether I get the feeling that doctors didn't have much idea what the real causes were, and wrote down symptoms instead.

[Viktoria]

Seems unlikely but the first word dies look like “ traveler”,mis  spelling or completely wrong.?
Viktoria.

[arthurk]

I've puzzled over this, and the best I can come up with is a misspelling of diarrhoea.

[Viktoria]

I think you are right ,because after it says “about three months “I think.
So diarrhoea .
Viktoria.

[HughC]

Thanks, Arthur.

You'd think it would be a requirement for registrars to be able to write legibly.
Similarly for census enumerators, though the authorities probably had to settle for what they could get.