Got it today I knew he had died in St Pancras Workhouse ,cause of death Disease of the Chest ???thats a new one on me .
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kyle
In my experience they only ever list diseases which directly contribute to the cause of death. Ongoiong conditions and disabilities are not mentioned.
My late Mum had crippling arthritis for many years which, a century earlier, would have put her in the workhouse if she was poor. She couldn't do anything for herself. It didn't kill her though and it isn't mentioned on her death cert.
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No, they didn't put much on them because they mostly didn't have a clue what people died of. Diagnosis was very primitive and as long as your death wasn't suspicious the cause was more or less irrelevant - you were dead and that was it.
It is only in more modern times (say post WW2 and the advent of the NHS) that there is a statistical interest in the causes of death, in order that money can be spent on public education to prevent some diseases, and so that money can be channelled in the most needed directions.
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