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Title: question about death certificate
Post by: cass75 on Monday 06 April 09 20:42 BST (UK)

I have a death certificate for an ancestor with cause of death stated as "tuberculor meningitis certified one month" - does this mean that she had had the illness for a month before she died?
Thanks

Title: Re: question about death certificate
Post by: ~cariad~ on Monday 06 April 09 20:44 BST (UK)

Hi Cass

Yes it does!  :)

~cariad~

Title: Re: question about death certificate
Post by: cass75 on Monday 06 April 09 20:51 BST (UK)

Thanks - I thought so but having never come across it before, I thought I'd better check rather than just assume!!!

Title: Re: question about death certificate
Post by: Annie65115 on Monday 06 April 09 21:25 BST (UK)

she would probably have had it for a lot longer than a month - tuberculous meningitis was a slow and unpleasant way to die   :(  - but maybe it was only diagnosed a month before her death.

Title: Re: question about death certificate
Post by: coombs on Tuesday 07 April 09 18:25 BST (UK)

Hi

Yes, I would think she was diagnosed with it 1 month before she died. She may have been ill for longer than that.

Ben