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14-08-10, 19:00
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cause of death - diarrhoea debility
I have googled without any real success. I have a man who died in his 70s of this and going by the fact that his death cert was issued by a Surgeon rather than a Coroner or GP etc., I would imagine that he died in a hospital.
Does anyone know if it was a general term for someone suffering in this way, or if it was normally caused by a specific illness or disease? We are talking 19th century.
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14-08-10, 19:17
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Even today, a severe bout of diarrhoea left untreated will quickly kill you. The very old, the very young and the sick are particularly vulnerable.
It is a general term and not specific to any disease, although if it is on a death cert there will normally be another cause of death, i.e. whatever condition caused the diarrhoea. OC
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14-08-10, 19:26
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Thanks OC, that is what I thought, but unhelpfully there was nothing else on the death cert and that is what made me wonder. Poor chap, what a horrible way to go!
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14-08-10, 19:37
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I'd guess he died from dehydration. Lots of illnesses can cause diarrhoea - ranging from cholera to a stomach bug.
When you say you imagine that he died in hospital, doesn't it say on the cert where he died?
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14-08-10, 20:24
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Nell, the cert says Pear Trees, Whitchurch, Glamorgan........I cannot find anything as yet, but that is not anything like the address where he previously lived.
Oh grrrrrrrrr, all I get is pubs and modern hospitals in Whitchurch
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14-08-10, 20:32
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~~~~waves to Sally~~~~
My 4 x great grandfather was a Potato Dealer he died from "Chronic diarrhoea 4 years"  No other cause of death was listed. This was 1848.
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14-08-10, 20:39
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My maternal grandparents first child died in 1893 at 2 months old and the death certificate just says Diarrhoea (with exhaustion) 3 days.
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14-08-10, 20:46
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Durham Lady, three days for a small child is so very sad. Gives me shivers down my spine.
*waves madly to Helen!!! good grief.........4 years??!!  It shouldn't be funny but it is. Better not tell my husband cos he has had a bit of a problem over the last 12 hours
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14-08-10, 21:07
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14-08-10, 21:10
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"Pear Trees" might be a private address. What date are we talking about? Could you look for it on a census?
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Love from Nell researching Chowns in Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Brewer, Broad, Eplett & Pope in Cornwall Smoothy & Willsher/Wiltshire in Essex & Surrey Emms, Mealing + variants, Purvey & Williams in Gloucestershire Barnes, Dunt, Gray, Massingham, Saul/Seals/Sales in Norfolk Matthews & Nash in Warwickshire
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