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Hi Doreen can only send it via email

Hi good people Can anyone help in reading a death cert, i have it saved on my desk top and can send it to anyone willing to help, the part i am having trouble reading is the reason of death, the writing is really hard to understand and i had also blew it up, but im still having problems... Please Please is anybody able to put my mind to rest. Thanks in advance Tara

I will try send it to me. will PM you Shirley

I'll try too. email address coming on a pm. Duncan

ITs Phthesis ie TB of 3 years difficult to read where in the body but definate TB

Have sent you my email address. Kath. x

A huge huge huge thanks to everyone who offered to help have had this cert for days and none of the family could read it, only thought of posting it on here as a last resort Thanks again to all

Have also replied by email. I too came up with TB. The nearest to the second word I came up with was Pneumonalis - although I don't think this is quite right. Couldn't read the line after the words '3 years'. Kath. x

Tara, I can read bits of it, I hope not to offend anybody but I'm sure the bottom word starts with Erection, could this be any sort of STD by any chance? Afraid I can't read enough of it to answer properly. Duncan

Hi Doreen Thanks for your time in looking, please dont stay up though as a few people have had a look and he died of TB. I am glad that i now know but thinking that he suffered for 3 years has given me horrible thoughts plus the fact that he left 2 children behind under the age of 5 years . Thanks again

Without the kind people on this site, i think i might have gone totally mad as there have been times i have really struggled trying to find information, I started in November as a project for my daughters homework then caught the bug lol. I hope soon that i will be able to offer the same help as i have recieved on here to others.

It's Phthisis Pulmonalis (3 years) and Exhaustion. A common cause of death back then sadly. :-( Phthisis is another word for TB or Consumption - this is often seen on death certificates. Cheers, Horatia

That's brilliant Horatia - I can stop trying to figure it out now!! Kath. x

Thanks Duncan, I am really grateful for the help this was a hard one to try and understand as the writing as nice as it looked was just to hard for me to understand ...

Duncan, It's definitely Exhaustion. This description was referring to the mode of death. You'll find the term Exhaustion listed on here: http://www.paul_smith.doctors.org.uk/ArchaicMedicalTerms.htm Consumption is another word for Phthisis Pulmonalis. It wasn't written on the death certificate. Cheers, Horatia

Thanks Horatia, now I know it says exhaustion I can see it does, if you know what I mean. Do you know something, I feel really stupid now! Duncan

Duncan, No worries. I've looked at so many death certificates (hundreds of them) that if I didn't know the answer to this question, I would be the one to feel silly! ;-) Cheers, Horatia