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Phthisis
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Daphne | Report | 2 Feb 2007 15:04 |
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I have just got death cert of my grandmothers real sister. Did not know she has one until 2 weeks ago. On it .it says Chronic Phthisis exhaustion .She was only 10. Have found it is the Greek word for comsumption [TB Tuberculosis] Her mother I was told died of comsumption ,I wonder if they died around the same time. Did you catch it was other people? I know there were hospitals just for TB. So if you get a cert with Phthisis you will now what it is. Daphne |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 2 Feb 2007 15:09 |
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TB was, and still is, a highly contagious disease. Thousands upon thousands of people died of it up until the 1950s, when antibiotics and other drugs slowed it down, and a programme of mass vaccination was undertaken. It is now having a bit of a revival, after almost vanishing from Britain and is found mainly in newly arrived immigrants from countries which have no mass vaccination programme. OC |
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Pauline | Report | 2 Feb 2007 15:10 |
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Itwas, and still is highly contagious, passed on minute particles when someone coughed. My family had our fair share of this dreadful disease. I had it as a child of 6 but instead of the lungs being effected it attacked my thigh bone. Thankfully I fully recovered after spending 13months in hosptial at the start of the NHS. Pauline |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 2 Feb 2007 15:10 |
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TB was very contagoius and many people in the same family would catch it . TB wards were set up in hospitals and these were still going strong in the 1940/50s up till they found treatment and then vaciination against TB. The worrying thing is it has reared its head again in recent years. There were many deaths from TB in the Victorian & Edwardian ages |
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Daphne | Report | 2 Feb 2007 15:24 |
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Thank you that is what I thought. Mother & Daug must have had it together,or daug after mum. Annie Elizabeth died in 1896 .Father re married in 1885 when my grandmother was 3. Father James bu one daug 14/02 1896 and had another born 18/03/1896. Funny old world. I wish I had talked to my aunt who told me about her mother .And her mother dieing from TB. I will always wonder now if she knew mother had a real sister.But sadly she died just before Christmas.In 10 yrs they have all gone,starting with my mother.So I would say to everyone talk to them while they are here. Daphne |
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