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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 5 Mar 2007 18:08 |
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perhaps her parents took care of the child. was very difficult for fathers to look after children without help because they had to work. |
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Karen | Report | 5 Mar 2007 18:15 |
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Hi all Just received a death certificate for my great grandad's first wife. She died of puerperal peritonitis (puerperal fever) - she was only 22 and had been married less than two years. I wasn't sure what it was and when I googled the disease found out that the fever would have come on suddenly after childbirth, and it was an agonising death. Her husband remarried three years later, but there's no sign of a child so will try to find out what happened there. Is there any way of finding children's homes admissions? thanks Karen |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 5 Mar 2007 18:31 |
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The child might have died too. Have you checked births and deaths for that time? Gwyn |
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Karen | Report | 5 Mar 2007 18:56 |
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Thanks both I'll check for a birth tonight. Thankfully that's not the only cert I got today, otherwise I'd be really grim tonight! K |
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Marie | Report | 5 Mar 2007 21:56 |
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Puerperal fever, caused by streptoccoccus and/or staphylcoccus was a hazard of childbirth in the days before Phillip Ignaz Semmelweiss , in Budapest, forced the medical profession to WASH THEIR HANDS and use clean bed linen before delivering babies. His wife died of puerperal fever. A wonderful man,Leonard Wachsman in America discovered the drug Streptomycin in the 1940's(I think). It saved my life many years ago when I had puerperal fever and septicaemia. The baby would probably have been taken by the grandparents or the woman's sister. Marie |
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