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Title: Can you help decipher this cause of death?
Post by: DixonBainbridge on Monday 16 August 21 13:02 BST (UK)
Hi all,
Really struggling with this. This is what I have at the moment:

Chronic ?? and hypostatic pneumonia caused roughly after a ?? and shock of a fall on 16th Dec 1949 when she ?? fracture of the right femur. Misadventure?

Can anyone decipher the missing parts?

Thanks
Title: Re: Can you help decipher this cause of death?
Post by: PaulineJ on Monday 16 August 21 13:04 BST (UK)
Chronic ..carditis (so heart-related)
and hypostatic
pneumonia caused
through

and she sustained a fracture
Title: Re: Can you help decipher this cause of death?
Post by: Drosybont on Monday 16 August 21 13:17 BST (UK)
Myocarditis, I think.

Drosybont
Title: Re: Can you help decipher this cause of death?
Post by: DixonBainbridge on Monday 16 August 21 14:14 BST (UK)
Thanks
Title: Re: Can you help decipher this cause of death?
Post by: arthurk on Monday 16 August 21 15:34 BST (UK)
...through enforced recumbency?

(My spellchecker doesn't like 'recumbency' but I'm struggling to make anything different out of it)
Title: Re: Can you help decipher this cause of death?
Post by: PaulineJ on Monday 16 August 21 18:13 BST (UK)
Makes sense.

Dicky heart, fluid accumulated after she was confined to bed with the broken femur.
Title: Re: Can you help decipher this cause of death?
Post by: bbart on Monday 16 August 21 19:56 BST (UK)
My take

Chronic myocarditis
and hypostatic
pneumonia occured
through enforced recumbancy
and shock of a fall on
16th December 1949 when
she sustained a fracture
of the right femur

Misadventure

(Arthurk: recumbancy is a real word.  Kick your spellchecker!)
Title: Re: Can you help decipher this cause of death?
Post by: bearkat on Monday 16 August 21 20:03 BST (UK)
Quote from: PaulineJ on Monday 16 August 21 18:13 BST (UK)
Makes sense.

Dicky heart, fluid accumulated after she was confined to bed with the broken femur.

How language has changed!
Title: Re: Can you help decipher this cause of death?
Post by: DixonBainbridge on Tuesday 17 August 21 09:18 BST (UK)
Thanks everyone for your help.