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DEATHS?

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Linda

Linda Report 7 Apr 2013 10:23

I've noticed a lot of deaths in the late 1870's and 1880's of young children under the age of 5yrs and parents in their 40's whilst searching a family tree in Hackney and London.. Can anyone tell me what illness's ware rife around that time please.

Andrew

Andrew Report 7 Apr 2013 10:41

A google search will show several websites, but measles, smallpox, thypoid etc., along with malnutrition and poor sanitary conditions will all have played a part.

Andy

Linda

Linda Report 7 Apr 2013 10:43

Thankyou Andrew :-D

PatinCyprus

PatinCyprus Report 7 Apr 2013 10:43

There were smallpox and cholera epidemics in London 1870s

Researching:
Lloyd,Paddock,Cooper,Morris,Rigby West Midlands Salop Worc

SheilaSomerset

SheilaSomerset Report 7 Apr 2013 10:43

Just about anything and everything! Cholera epidemics, smallpox, TB were big killers but dieases and infections which we can fight today were sometimes killers. Recent immigrants to an area may have no immunity to the 'local' infections.

Researching:
Gloucestershire, Dorset, Hampshire, Derbyshire, London, Lithuania, Russia

Linda

Linda Report 7 Apr 2013 10:48

Thankyou everyone x

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it

Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it Report 7 Apr 2013 12:30

TB was a big killer then too.my grt grt grandfather died of TB in 1884 aged 37 .
Plus there were venereal diseases that took the lives of young babies born infected with syphilis etc or only lived to a young age,

Researching:
Surname Fahse. Germany. Essex .South East London My avatar is one of our wedding photos of 1957

OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 7 Apr 2013 12:43

In those days things like measles, chickenpox, mumps, tonsillitis, and scarlet fever were often fatal :-(

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"

Kucinta

Kucinta Report 7 Apr 2013 16:32

There was a flu pandemic 1889-90.

Three of my great grandfather's infant brothers died within the space of a week in Jan 1890 from diphtheria.

Crowded conditions meant infectious diseases spread very rapidly.

Researching:
Eayres (Northants/London) Walker (Surrey) Loveday (Northants) Moore (Tipperary)

Frederick

Frederick Report 7 Apr 2013 18:07


My wifes Gt Grandfather lost 4 out of 8 children young.

Alice. 14 months. Oct 1885. Tabes mesenteric.

Maria. 14 months. Nov.1885. Bronchitis.

William. 14 Years. Nov. 1901. Supperation Tonsillitis & Bronchitis

David. 15 Years. July. 1904. Acute Milliary Tuberculosis & Heart Failure.

Must have been devastating to lose Twins & Teenagers like that.

Just think of the amount of children that could have been saved if we had anti-biotics then.


Fred.