Cause of death?

[acceber]

Hi

This death certificate arrived this morning for an ancestor who died aged 41 in 1902. I can read Cerebral Hemorrage as the main cause but cant quite make out the word under 4 days.

Any help is much appreciated

acceber

[Dave Francis]

Strain
Certified by...

[acceber]

Thanks, so would strain mean exhaustion or something similar?

I think 41 is quite young for a cerebral hemorrage, maybe as a result of all the fat and dairy in his diet from being a farmer 

acceber

[Isabel H]

Maybe the haemorrhage was brought on by exertion, straining to lift something heavy perhaps?

[Miranda B]

Just my humble opinion but I think `strain` is what we would call `stress` today. My Mum used to describe  someone as having been through a period of strain or is feeling strained.

M

[Rena]

Cerebral pertains to the head/brain and haemorage means bleeding.  I think the doctor described what type (or strain) of bleeding (haemorraging).  Possibly strain 4 (type 4) was the description they used in that era.

This seems to be backed up by a sentence I found on a medical website and possibly you could learn more by surfing for the word yourself :-

<<Hemorrhage is broken down into 4 classes>>

Possibly your relative had been 'overdoing' it (working too hard).

Rena

[Mumsie2131]

Just to throw a spanner in the works, I'm not convinced it's 'strain', looking at all the other words they all look the correct length for the word but 'strain' looks too long.
I know there's a word Stridor in medicine but it's not that.  Medical language in the 1900's was different than to-day.
I'll keep looking

[acceber]

Thanks for all your replies, my ancestor was running a 200+ acre farm with only a small amount of help so I can imagine he had probably worked himself into the ground a bit. Heart disease and high blood pressure run in that side of the family which may explain why he had a brain hemorrage at such a young age.

He left a wife and 2 year old daughter, but they promptly moved to America and his wife remarried his brother! quite shortly after... 

acceber

[pjbuk007]

Ithink it says 4 Days Strain.  I have tried to get the strain to look like something else, but afraid not.

I am afraid that I do not agree with Rena's ingenious suggestion.

Usually a number of days on an old death cert relates to the time the condition was present.

It does not make much sense, but might mean he had 4 days stress? 

Younger persons dying suddenly of cerebral haemorrhage often have ruptured cerebral aneurysms. This can be very sudden.  But it could mean that he had signs and symptoms of a cerebral haemorrhage for 4 days prior to death.