deciphering cause of death

[molar]

I keep looking and it seems to me to be hand not head, also thinking if he had a gunshot wound to head that would have killed him before developing tetanus. 
It was Allendale , Northumberland .

[JenB]

Some Lead Mining in The Lake District certainly.

This man lived in the north Pennines, Northumberland, not the Lake District.
The north Pennines ore field was one of the biggest and most significant in the country.
The ore was transported by pack pony to the smelt mills, and much of the smelted ore was exported from ports on the north east coast.
I’m a member of a group, researching lead mining in part of the north Pennine ore field
https://www.dukesfield.org.uk/history/


(Sorry to digress from your main enquiry, molar)

[Viktoria]

I don’t think it states where he lived, in the first post on this subject .

“The Shropshire mines were among the most productive in the country and Europe ,Snailbeach being one of the richest of those mines .”
Quoted from “ The  Shropshire Lead Mines” by Fred Brook and Martin Allbut

Yet  the  area is little known ,the pit head set in lovely surroundings ,the buildings as those in Cornwall as the processes were very like Cornish Tin Mining and many Cornish miners went to Shropshire as did the Cornish Engines.
We children played in The Cornish Engine House.
It is not such a dirty process as coal mining ,we made mud pies with  the waste which was like white mud ,it was also toxic!
Viktoria.

[Ray T]

Some Lead Mining in The Lake District certainly.
I think the little narrow gauge railway, The Ratty, transported ore.

Viktoria.
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The line on which “Ratty” runs - from Boot down to Ravenglass - was built to transport iron ore not lead.

[Viktoria]

I have ridden on The Ratty,when Youth Hostelling at Boot, when we took the top year of Junior School in their last term.

We did Hardknot Roman Fort the first day then Muncaster falls ,then Muncaster Castle ,then Wastwater .
Doctor Bridge .
It was lovely ,so many laughs .
We did Catbells one year but the rain was coming across like stair rods, Wainwright described it as  “ A nice afternoon stroll for your Granny !”

Some Granny!
Viktoria.

[JenB]

molar, presumably you know that he's buried in the churchyard at Ninebanks (St Mark)?
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/7425648

I see that the informant, Isaac Newton, also a lead miner, was his neighbour according to the 1841 census.

For what it's worth I'm sure the relevant word on the death certificate is 'hand'. Presumably it was thought that some sort of contamination had entered his hand which then caused tetanus.

[Jebber]

If you get a nasty injury in your hand when gardening, the first thing you are asked is if your tetanus injection is up to date.

[Viktoria]

Yes, and deep penetrating puncture wounds are more dangerous than surface injuries .
In the days of horse drawn carts etc ,and horse manure as a general fertiliser on vegetable gardens etc Tetanus was a real danger.
 It can lurk in soil for a very long time.

Viktoria.