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tabes mesenterica
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Unknown | Report | 24 Sep 2004 23:45 |
Anyone got any relatives with this as a cause of death? I have two infant deaths in the same family (1878 and 1884) and wondered how common it was. It's a form of tuberculosis which destroys the lymph nodes in the mesentery (part of the intestinal wall), thought to be caused by drinking contaminated milk. nell |
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Unknown | Report | 25 Sep 2004 00:05 |
Ooh yuk! Mandy :) |
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Mary | Report | 25 Sep 2004 00:23 |
Hi Helen, I have not come across this as a cause of death but I would think that when a mother loses her milk, or when a mother dies, then someone has to feed the infant. If they cannot find a wet nurse, then there would be no alternative but to give the child cows milk. It must have been very distressing to know that you cannot feed the child yourself and by giving it cows milk, it could die. I would suspect that it was a very common cause of death. Mary |
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Geoff | Report | 25 Sep 2004 00:35 |
I suspect Nell, that very few of us bother to buy death certificates for infants (they are possibly seen as "expendable" in our researches, callous but true). I suspect too that post-mortem examination of infants was probably pretty rare (in practice) and that different doctors had different "favourite" causes of death for infants, depending on their symptoms. Perhaps in reality, some form of (unspecified) gastro-enteric problem. PS: Having just seen your Swaffham post, I won't change ny opinion! |
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Unknown | Report | 25 Sep 2004 00:49 |
Geoff I did wonder about the worthwhileness (if that word doesn't exist, it should) of getting infant death certs, especially as one was only a step-great uncle, but I am glad I did as it had a different address from the ones on other certs/the census. I must say it was news to me that cholera was easily cured! nell. |
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Wendy | Report | 25 Sep 2004 09:57 |
Someone on my hubby's side died from this Wendy |
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Twinkle | Report | 25 Sep 2004 12:45 |
I confess I rarely buy death certificates for anyone and never for children. Then again, most child deaths I am unaware of. If they were born and died between censuses then I won't know about them, because I can't buy birth certs for every child with a correct surname! Most of my child deaths I have found pre-1837 so I'll never know what killed them. |
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susie manterfield(high wycombe) | Report | 25 Sep 2004 13:42 |
hi hellen yes! hubby has got them and they were also infants it was tb of the glandsin the digestive system.resulting wasting of the body poor little mites susie |
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Unknown | Report | 25 Sep 2004 14:11 |
One of the children in my family died at only 5 weeks old. The other was his half-brother, born 8 years later, and on his death cert it says he'd had the disease for 2 years, which was most of his short life. His mother (my great-grandmother) was pregnant with her last child at the time of his death. She was apparently pregnant 9 times, gave birth to five live children, and reared 3 to adulthood. nell |
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Ramblin Rose | Report | 25 Sep 2004 17:02 |
Poor little mites. It doesn't bear thinking about does it. The women in my famiy seem to have died so young. I am about to send for Certs and find ot what they died of. Rose |
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Brian | Report | 22 Apr 2013 23:27 |
The brother of my GGM died of this aged 14 in the workhouse where the family was forced to enter due to the father's heart disease. The death certificate states that he had suffered tabes mesenterica for four months. I read somewhere that it is indeed caused by drinking milk from cows infected by TB and commonly affects the poor - probably because of their predisposition due to inadequate diet and living conditions. |
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Janet | Report | 23 Apr 2013 15:51 |
I have one on my tree who died from this in 1871 (not sure how diet and living conditions would affect milk though) |
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zenawarrior | Report | 24 Apr 2013 15:58 |
hi when i find a child death in my tree, i buy both the birth and death certificate. children who live to adulthood, usually have decendents to remember them. but the babies and small children dont. so i class it as my way to bring them back into the fold. probally not needed but just my way of a memorial as i have found no graves for them as yet |
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AndyTG | Report | 7 Dec 2016 19:35 |
Well written Zena we are like minded. I discovered the grave of my mother-in-laws sister Betty Field 17/1/1927 - 16/7/1932 and found her grave it is now marked with a large wooden cross provide by the staff at Rood End Cemetery, Oldbury. I always lay flowers for her, but discovering 4 pictures of her as well pushed the search. William & Harriet Field (Love) is my wife's maternal great grandmother and had 16 children from 1884 to 1904! In last week I found 8 of 9 of the forgotten children by our family generation. Harriet deserved a Pride of Britain award! Remembering |
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Trudy | Report | 2 Apr 2017 09:11 |
Dear All |
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JoonieCloonie | Report | 6 Apr 2017 19:58 |
An adult sibling of one of my ancestors died of "phthisis abdominalis" in his mid-20s. |
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Tracey | Report | 12 Oct 2017 10:00 |
I have this death on one of my certificates of a one year old child, in 1882. They were a poor family. Must have been awful :( |
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Alastair | Report | 8 Jun 2018 10:15 |
I have just recently come across a relative of my wife's family who died of Tabes mesenterica in 1881, aged 7 years. His father was an iron miner, and the family lived in Darnconner in Ayrshire, which was a company village to house miners and their families. reports of living conditions in such villages at that time suggest poor levels of sanitation, crowded living conditions,, and little in the way of faclities beyond a roof over their heads - in other words, ideal conditions for tubercular diseases to flourish. At the moment I have only come across the one instance of this disease, but as several families in my wife's ancestry lived in and around Darnconner, there may be more for me to unearth. By the way, for those who want to locate Darnconner, it is completely ruined now, though there is a farm of that name on site. The village itself was situated more or less midway between Auchinleck and Lugar, two other mining villages in eastern Ayrshire. Al |
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Jean | Report | 2 May 2019 09:53 |
I have had a death cert for a 8 month old relative who died in 1896 from tabes mesenterica. |
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Susan | Report | 19 Jun 2021 13:20 |
I too have a relative who died in 1872 10 days short of his first birthday of Tabes Mesenterica. |