Cause of death?

[acceber]

Thank you for that info 

Maybe the '4 days' term meant he had had the brain haemorrage 4 days before and died as a result.

acceber

[Alice B]

Hello

My Grandmother's death certificate also mentions 'Cerebral Haemorrhage 4 days', plus 'cardiac disease'. She was only 27 and I have always thought that the actual haemorrhage lasted four days, but perhaps I'm wrong. She too lived on a farm!

Alice B

[Alice B]

Just to ask another question on this.

'Four days' seems to have cropped up twice in my family now, once as I have mentioned for my grandmother and again in the certificate I have just received for my grandfather. He died from 'Chronic Bronchitis - 4 days. Is that a term used frequently or am I just unlucky to have had two mentioning the same length of time?

Alice B 

[acceber]

My Grandmother's death certificate also mentions 'Cerebral Haemorrhage 4 days', plus 'cardiac disease'. She was only 27 and I have always thought that the actual haemorrhage lasted four days, but perhaps I'm wrong. She too lived on a farm!

Alice - It was obviously all the stresses and strains of running a farm that caused it, that and the high fat dairy and red meat diet! 
 
I should imagine that 4 days would mean the time from the onset of the haemorrage or disease until death.

acceber

[Alice B]

Acceber

Thanks - they were just 'unlucky' due to their lifestyle then.

AliceB

[acceber]

Ive just had a look on wikipedia and the major cause of cerebral hemorrage is high blood pressure. Of course now there are very successful treatments but in the early 1900's when my ancestor died aged 41 there was none.

My Grandmother's death certificate also mentions 'Cerebral Haemorrhage 4 days', plus 'cardiac disease'. She was only 27

Its tragic at such a young age, recently Dame Anita Roddick the Body Shop founder died at 64 of a cerebral hemorrage.

acceber

[Comosus]

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

Life was very different back then.  My GGG Grandfather died aged 31 from heart disease, which is also quite unheard of at that age.

Andrew