HYPERPYREXIA

[Walkeringham]

Thankyou all for the replies about mitral incompetence.
I am not obsessed with death certificates, but here are two more!

July 31st 1900 Willie 14mths son of Fred (only child)
Diarrhoea
7days
Convulsions

August 5th 1900 Fred 24yrs Fred was a blacksmith
Pneumonia - 10days
Hyperpyrexia - 3days
Syncope


Do you think that there is a connection or just a dreadful co-incidence?

[Peter Goodey]

Dunno. They're just descriptions of the symptoms, not diagnoses. Human enteroviruses (entero = gut) can cause viral pneumonia.

[Jan1954]

Hyperpyrexia - 3days
Syncope
Hyperpyrexia: Exceptionally high fever in comparison with the fever usually accompanying a particular disease.

Syncope: Sudden loss of consciousness.

It could just be a coincidence, unless there is a connection between diarrhoea and pneumonia, those being the primary causes on the death certificates.

[Walkeringham]

Thankyou, Jan 1954 and Peter

[Adnepos_Iacobi]

Unlikely to be the same infectious agent. If the family were going through hard times, they might be more susceptible to many kinds of illness. What kind of property were they living in? Where -city centre? Do you know whether Fred was blacksmithing?

[Walkeringham]

Thankyou for comments about Mitral Incompetence and Hyperpyrexia.

Fred and family were living in the centre of Barnsley. I have always assumed that he was working with his father who was still a blacksmith in 1901.