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Title: Help deciphering Cause of Death please
Post by: coltman on Friday 18 February 22 18:41 GMT (UK)
Can anyone help with a cause of death please.

Chronic  (?)  Long standing.

Thanks.
Title: Re: Help deciphering Cause of Death please
Post by: Bookbox on Friday 18 February 22 20:06 GMT (UK)
Can you please give the age of the deceased and the date of the certificate?

Pending that information, I wonder if it is a mis-spelling of Laryngitis ? Perhaps it has been underlined, as if to flag up a spelling error? Just a suggestion.
Title: Re: Help deciphering Cause of Death please
Post by: rutht22000 on Friday 18 February 22 20:10 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Bookbox on Friday 18 February 22 20:06 GMT (UK)
Can you please give the age of the deceased and the date of the certificate?

Pending that information, I wonder if it is a mis-spelling of Laryngitis ? Perhaps it has been underlined, as if to flag up a spelling error? Just a suggestion.


Hi

And if possible if male or female as if male as it might knock out a few guesses for women only disorders.  I'm wondering maybe something blood related....

It definitely looks like S/L...g/q/y.....itis.  Are there any other 'S' or 'L' on the page to compare?
Title: Re: Help deciphering Cause of Death please
Post by: sandiep on Friday 18 February 22 20:21 GMT (UK)
\\\\\\\\chronic Laryngitis   long standing  certified
Title: Re: Help deciphering Cause of Death please
Post by: KitCarson on Friday 18 February 22 22:54 GMT (UK)
Wow.  I would never have considered Laryngitis as being deadly, but now I've looked it up, seems like quite a nasty thing and can lead to all sorts of problems if not treated properly or becomes Chronic.  We live and learn.  Kit
Title: Re: Help deciphering Cause of Death please
Post by: Treetotal on Friday 18 February 22 23:01 GMT (UK)
If you compare the L in long, it doesn't match the first letter but the S in standing looks very much like the first letter in the word after chronic. I believe the first letter is S
Carol
Title: Re: Help deciphering Cause of Death please
Post by: mckha489 on Friday 18 February 22 23:22 GMT (UK)
I think it’s an S too.

And I think possibly Sanguinitis

So, something to do with the blood. But not sure what!
Title: Re: Help deciphering Cause of Death please
Post by: arthurk on Saturday 19 February 22 10:57 GMT (UK)
Sometimes all the words forming the cause of death have an initial capital, so the only definite capital letter here is a 'C' at the start of Chronic and Certified.

I'm inclined to agree with Laryngitis, though the apparent lack of a 'g' is an issue. As has been suggested, is there an upper case 'L' or 'S' anywhere else on the certificate, or any other letters that look similar to this one?
Title: Re: Help deciphering Cause of Death please
Post by: coltman on Saturday 19 February 22 14:41 GMT (UK)
Thanks everyone for replying. James Coltman, 71 yo Male. I was thinking it was an 'S' , maybe sang//itis but now think it's an 'L'.