What did my great grandmother die of?

[Simon1a9]

She was a married shopkeeper and had an ailment for one and a half years, but what was it?
Can anyone please help me make this out?
Thanks!

[CaroleW]

Phthisis - pulmonary TB

[Simon1a9]

Thank you so much.  I had never heard of phthisis before.

[CaroleW]

It was an old name for TB as was Consumption.  Hard to get your tongue round the pronunciation😂

[Andrew C.]

For how long was TB a major issue? So many people seemed to die from it.

[Zefiro]

It was an old name for TB as was Consumption.  Hard to get your tongue round the pronunciation😂

True, but once you've tried a few times, you'll always remember the word and recognize it wherever it's written

[mckha489]

For how long was TB a major issue? So many people seemed to die from it.

The vaccine wasn’t fully developed until 1921.

This piece https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3749764/. Says TB was responsible for 1 in 4 deaths in the 19th century. I believe it got worse then with industrialisation as people crowded into cities and lived and worked in very crowded conditions.

I don’t know how old you are, but I can remember seeing a few old signs on the sides of buildings and other odd places that said “do not spit”.  This was part of attempts to prevent spread.

[Tickettyboo]

I don’t know how old you are, but I can remember seeing a few old signs on the sides of buildings and other odd places that said “do not spit”.  This was part of attempts to prevent spread.

Plus, of course, its just plain not nice (footballers please note!),

Boo

[CaroleW]

I remember the testing for TB in school back in the 1960's.   The "jelly test" was the original way but then it was a circular multi point injection.  In both cases if the area was "raised" after a few days it indicated you had been in contact with a TB sufferer & probably had a built in immunity.   You were then sent for a chest x-ray

No raising & you had to have the TB jab.  I watched several of my class faint while having it