caliope
16-01-2008, 12:34 AM
I'm hoping someone can help.
I received a death certificate for my 3x g-grandmother (aged 42) who died in 1838. Cause of death was pleurisy and pulmonary tubercles (?). I found pleurisy on an archaic medical term website but pulmonary tubercles wasn't there. Would this be TB perhaps?
Also, she died in an infirmary and the house surgeon of the infirmary was the informant of death. Does anyone know how common it was to die in the hospital back then as opposed to dying at home? If it was TB, would the infirmary probably be like a hospice rather than a hospital?
A lot of questions, I know (!), but thank you for your help!
I received a death certificate for my 3x g-grandmother (aged 42) who died in 1838. Cause of death was pleurisy and pulmonary tubercles (?). I found pleurisy on an archaic medical term website but pulmonary tubercles wasn't there. Would this be TB perhaps?
Also, she died in an infirmary and the house surgeon of the infirmary was the informant of death. Does anyone know how common it was to die in the hospital back then as opposed to dying at home? If it was TB, would the infirmary probably be like a hospice rather than a hospital?
A lot of questions, I know (!), but thank you for your help!