Hi
I got three of my granddad's siblings death certs today, I knew when I ordered them that they were all babies, but it's just so heart breaking to read them.
Doris died on 3rd Sept 1912 aged 8 months due to - 'Meningitis due to accidental fall off a bed on which she was lying'
Arthur died on 23rd October 1914 aged 4 months due to - '(1)Marasmus (2) Collapsed lung'
Cecil died on 20th April 1917 aged 19 months due to - '(1)acute gastoenteritis (2)tubercular meningitis, exhaustion & synope'
I have three more death certs to order one for Leonard again in the September quarter of 1912, and one for Lilian in 1902, and one for Frederick in 1896 - all 3 were babies (under 2 years old)too.
Then according to the 1911 census, they had another baby who died that I have yet to find.
Their eldest daughter Florence died on 28th Feb 1817 aged 20 of 'Pnuemonia 4 days & cardiac failure'.
How on earth did these people cope, losing two children a year?
Mum remembers her grandparents a lovely warm people, always taking them on their laps and cuddling them, after losing so many children they really must have cherished their grandchildren.
Mum vividly remembers the start of the blitz (we all come from East London) before she was evacuated. She remembers her granny picking her up and wrapping her up in the eiderdown off the bed. Mum said she was scared by the big bangs, but her gran held her tight and sung to her, rocking her back & forth, Mum was 4 in 1939.
Now back to the reason for my posting, why was the word Meningitis used for both Cecil & Doris's death? I understood meningitis to be a bacterial or viral infection of the fluid surrounding the brain which could cause septicemia. So how could a bang on the head, or tuberculosis cause it?
Sandra
I got three of my granddad's siblings death certs today, I knew when I ordered them that they were all babies, but it's just so heart breaking to read them.
Doris died on 3rd Sept 1912 aged 8 months due to - 'Meningitis due to accidental fall off a bed on which she was lying'
Arthur died on 23rd October 1914 aged 4 months due to - '(1)Marasmus (2) Collapsed lung'
Cecil died on 20th April 1917 aged 19 months due to - '(1)acute gastoenteritis (2)tubercular meningitis, exhaustion & synope'
I have three more death certs to order one for Leonard again in the September quarter of 1912, and one for Lilian in 1902, and one for Frederick in 1896 - all 3 were babies (under 2 years old)too.
Then according to the 1911 census, they had another baby who died that I have yet to find.
Their eldest daughter Florence died on 28th Feb 1817 aged 20 of 'Pnuemonia 4 days & cardiac failure'.
How on earth did these people cope, losing two children a year?
Mum remembers her grandparents a lovely warm people, always taking them on their laps and cuddling them, after losing so many children they really must have cherished their grandchildren.
Mum vividly remembers the start of the blitz (we all come from East London) before she was evacuated. She remembers her granny picking her up and wrapping her up in the eiderdown off the bed. Mum said she was scared by the big bangs, but her gran held her tight and sung to her, rocking her back & forth, Mum was 4 in 1939.
Now back to the reason for my posting, why was the word Meningitis used for both Cecil & Doris's death? I understood meningitis to be a bacterial or viral infection of the fluid surrounding the brain which could cause septicemia. So how could a bang on the head, or tuberculosis cause it?
Sandra
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