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  • Help needed please with reading cause of death

    It is either Myelitis, or Myetitis...... not sure which, and the next two words before "Certified" are very hard to work out.


    Seeing it close up on here now, it is almost definitely Myelitis........just looking it up. It seems to be something that attacks the spinal cord, but not necessarily Polio?? Does anyone know? The second two words may just give a better idea
    Last edited by sally; 02-04-09, 19:58.
    Sally - Researching amongst others, JOSEPHY; WRIGHTSON; COOPER; GLOVER; DOWNING AND DICKINSON.

  • #2
    Myelitis is inflamation of the spinal cord. The next bit says something years, but I can't read the first word.

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    • #3
      Myelitis
      ?? some years
      Elaine







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      • #4
        is it "some years" ?

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        • #5
          seven years
          KiteRunner

          Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh"
          (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")

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          • #6
            Ah, thank you Merry and Elaine.......yes I can see "years" now, although the little lump before it was confusing me. Perhaps it is "some", but reading up about Myelitis it would seem unlikely that he could have had it for some years. Will have to research more
            Sally - Researching amongst others, JOSEPHY; WRIGHTSON; COOPER; GLOVER; DOWNING AND DICKINSON.

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            • #7
              Thank you Kite - maybe it was Polio then, because other forms of the disease seem to have been short lived in that the patient either recovered or died fairly quickly
              Sally - Researching amongst others, JOSEPHY; WRIGHTSON; COOPER; GLOVER; DOWNING AND DICKINSON.

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              • #8
                Myelitis is inflamation of spinal cord, can't make out other word/s either, got this from Archaic medical terms website.

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                • #9
                  Thank you oh exiled one.........yes, it seems to cover a multitude of sins. This chap was a Coachman, so perhaps all that jolting around coupled with holding a team of horses was instrumental
                  Sally - Researching amongst others, JOSEPHY; WRIGHTSON; COOPER; GLOVER; DOWNING AND DICKINSON.

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                  • #10
                    I have been studying the rest of the certificate.....I don't think that the word is seven, but the first letter is definitely s and the third is m as it matches another m on the cert.

                    Therefore it could be "some" as Merry suggested, and one letter at the end has been sort of scribbled out.
                    Sally - Researching amongst others, JOSEPHY; WRIGHTSON; COOPER; GLOVER; DOWNING AND DICKINSON.

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                    • #11
                      The lower-case e is quite like a much earlier version of the letter - see C17th documents, for instance. It looks a bit like a Greek theta.

                      I'd thought the word was probably "some".

                      Christine
                      Researching: BENNETT (Leics/Birmingham-ish) - incl. Leonard BENNETT in Detroit & Florida ; WARR/WOR, STRATFORD & GARDNER/GARNAR (Oxon); CHRISTMAS, RUSSELL, PAFOOT/PAFFORD (Hants); BIGWOOD, HAYLER/HAILOR (Sussex); LANCASTER (Beds, Berks, Wilts) - plus - COCKS (Spitalfields, Liverpool, Plymouth); RUSE/ROWSE, TREMEER, WADLIN(G)/WADLETON (Devonport, E Cornwall); GOULD (S Devon); CHAPMAN, HALL/HOLE, HORN (N Devon); BARRON, SCANTLEBURY (Mevagissey)...

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                      • #12
                        Thank you Christine, I agree.
                        Sally - Researching amongst others, JOSEPHY; WRIGHTSON; COOPER; GLOVER; DOWNING AND DICKINSON.

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                        • #13
                          Yes, it could well be "some". I haven't seen "some years" on a death cert before; they're usually more precise, which is why I thought "seven" but I think you're right.
                          KiteRunner

                          Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh"
                          (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")

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                          • #14
                            I'm sure the words "years certified" are enclosed in brackets, which would make "some" rather silly, although I cannot make it into anything else...

                            OC

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                            • #15
                              I think those are just curly tails on the letters, though of course it would be easier to tell if we could see the rest of the certificate to compare them with. Do the letters on the rest of the cert have curly bits on them, Sally?
                              KiteRunner

                              Every five years or so I look back on my life and I have a good... laugh"
                              (Indigo Girls, "Watershed")

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                              • #16
                                My brother suffered from a disease called Osteomylitis (?).....could that be it.

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                                • #17
                                  Had to turn off last night, but now back and Merry - now you come to mention it, they do appear to be brackets but it would make no sense whatsoever would it.
                                  Kite - I tried to post the whole cert but it came out too small to read so I gave up, but yes, some of the letters are flourished whilst others are not, and on comparing the "y" under age, it matches the weird y under cause of death....so they are not brackets, just flourishes.

                                  The mystery of "some years" continues.

                                  Thank you Flashieboy - no, I think that this is a different disease. I am still wondering if it was polio, but then it would have been poliomyelitis??!
                                  Sally - Researching amongst others, JOSEPHY; WRIGHTSON; COOPER; GLOVER; DOWNING AND DICKINSON.

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