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Title: Help deciphering Death Certficate Cause of Death
Post by: VicInIbstock on Tuesday 07 August 18 18:19 BST (UK)

Hello
I  wondered if anyone could help decipher the hand writing on two death certificates enclosed. TiA.

Title: Re: Help deciphering Death Certficate Cause of Death
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 07 August 18 18:21 BST (UK)

a nephritis
b phithisis   

Title: Re: Help deciphering Death Certficate Cause of Death
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 07 August 18 18:22 BST (UK)

Postoperative paralytic ileus
Forceps delivery

Title: Re: Help deciphering Death Certficate Cause of Death
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 07 August 18 18:24 BST (UK)

paralytic ileus - https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=7886

phythisis is TB

Added - forgot about nephritis - an extremely painful kidney infection.

Title: Re: Help deciphering Death Certficate Cause of Death
Post by: VicInIbstock on Tuesday 07 August 18 19:06 BST (UK)

Many thanks for the prompt reply Gadget.

TB and kidney infection sounds a very nasty combination, this chap was in the Army during WW2 and may have picked up both during his time in uniform.

I thought the other mentioned forceps so guessing the ileus was as a result of the lady giving birth. This one is an interesting twist as it's a lady from Middlesborough remembered on the Bagworth memorial whose husband was in the RAF - Desford aerodrome was a cycle ride away -its nice the village remembered her like that.

Title: Re: Help deciphering Death Certficate Cause of Death
Post by: Gadget on Tuesday 07 August 18 19:41 BST (UK)

How nice of them. They must have been fond of her and her husband, but so sad.