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In 1856 there were 28
entries of which 19 were children under the age of 12 years old |
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In 1857, 28 were
infants and children and 9 were above the age of 12 years. |
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In 1864-1866 there
were 38 entries of which 22 were infants and children. Many were babies who
only lived a few days, hours or months. |
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In 1867-1869 seventy deaths
were listed of which 41 were children |
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1870-1874 there were 76
entries of which 36 were children |
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1876-1879 there were 108
entries of which 35 were children |
| 1880-1883 there
were 106 entries listed and 50 of them were children |
| 1884 there was 108
entries listed of which 65 of them were children and 73 of the 108
died of the flux. |
| 1885 - 74 listed of
which 40 were children under 12 years old. |
| 1886 - 37 listed of
which 21 were children |
There were very few who lived to be
the age of 90 or older. Note the simple and repetitive causes of death
such as "fever," "Old age," "Hives,
" "Fits," "Child Bed Fever" and
"Croup." Other causes of death were stated as: "Killed by a
horse," or "Killed by a tree," "Falling off
Train," "burn," "drowned," or simply
"shot."
There were numerous causes
listed as simply "Unknown." This makes us realize how far
medicine has progressed. The causes of death listed below does not
represent every death during the years listed. I only listed the
causes of death for each year as there was numerous repetitions of the same
cause of death such as "flux," in the year of 1884.
From the time our county was
formed in 1856 the disease of "Consumption" was rampant, which I
understand is "Tuberculosis." In 1884 there was an
epidemic of the disease called "Flux" which was a stomach or bowel
disorder. In 1917 the influenza "Flu" epidemic was everywhere
including Wise and surrounding counties.
Notice the strange names
such as "Bealing," "Erysipelas,"
"Gravel," "Hydrassal," "Infantum," "LaGripp,"
"Putrid," "Torpid,"
"Scrofula"
What is the difference in
"Hives" and "Bold Hives?"
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1856
|
Hives |
|
Bold hives |
|
Consumption (Tuberculosis) |
| Killed in a fracus
(fracas) |
|
Burns |
|
Croop (croup) |
|
Old age |
|
Child bed (fever) |
|
Killed by a horse |
|
Tipos
(typhus) fever (Typhoid?) |
|
Not known |
|
Fits |
|
Dropsy |
|
Croops
(croup) |
|
Hives |
1857
|
Flux |
|
Unknown |
|
Pleurisy |
|
Scarlet Fever |
|
Palsy |
|
Fits |
|
Dropsey
(dropsy) |
|
Crushed by log |
1858
|
Hives |
|
Flux |
|
Burned |
|
Consumption |
|
Fever |
|
Croop (croup) |
|
Unknown |
1859
|
Unknown |
|
Croup |
|
Scrofula |
|
Fever |
|
Quinsy |
|
Whooping Cough |
|
Dropsy |
|
Liver Complaint |
|
Eating Dirt |
|
Child Baring (bearing) |
1860
|
Croop (croup) |
|
Unknown |
|
Phthis(?) |
|
Burn |
|
Whooping Cough |
|
Ulcer |
|
Hives |
|
Colera
(cholera) |
|
Palsey (palsy) |
|
Killed |
|
Quinsy |
|
Palsy |
|
Liver |
|
Gravel |
|
Rhematism
(rheumatism) |
1861
|
Measles |
|
Consumption |
|
Croup |
|
Unknown |
|
Croup |
|
Fever |
|
Hives |
|
Stillborn |
| Colaymorbes |
|
Disease of head |
1864-1866
|
In Child bearing |
|
Unknown |
|
Erysipelas |
|
Dropsy |
|
Fever |
|
Diarrhea |
| Congestive Heart Failure |
|
Hives |
|
Burn |
|
Flux |
|
Shot |
|
Croup |
|
Childbirth |
|
St Antnies fire |
|
Cancer |
|
Consumption |
1867-1869
|
Fever |
|
Croup |
|
Inflammation |
|
Bleeding |
|
Consumption |
|
Old age |
|
Unknown |
|
Disease ?? |
|
Hives |
|
Kidney Disease |
|
Typhoid |
|
Shot |
|
Lung Fever |
| Irecepilas |
|
Rheumatism |
|
Cholera |
|
Irrecep |
|
Burn |
|
Erecylipus |
|
Change of life |
|
Killed |
|
Cold |
|
Hives |
|
Dropsy |
1870-1874
|
Bold Hives |
|
Unknown |
|
Old Age |
|
Fever |
|
Smothered |
|
Drowned |
|
Diphtheria |
|
Still born |
|
Consumption |
|
Whooping Cough |
|
Cramp |
|
Poisoned |
|
Tumor on arm |
|
Fulex |
|
Hives |
|
Dyspepia
(dyspepsia) |
|
Dyspepsia |
|
Kidney Disease |
|
White Swelling |
|
Thrash |
|
Croup |
|
Breast disease |
|
Dropsy |
1876-1879
|
Bold Hives |
|
Consumption |
|
Diphtheria |
|
Hooping Cough (Whooping
Cough) |
|
Neumonia (Pneumonia) |
|
Old Age |
|
Palpitations |
|
Unknown |
|
Fever |
|
Burned |
|
Dropsy |
|
Shot |
|
Unknown |
|
Drowned |
1880-1883
|
Fits |
|
Shot/Dr. Howell |
|
Dyspepsia |
|
Unknown |
|
Consumption |
|
Infla. bowels |
|
Coroup (Croup) |
|
Piles |
|
Fever |
|
Heart Disease |
|
Dropsey (dropsy) |
|
Heart Disease |
|
Diphtheria |
|
Scrofula |
|
Cramp |
|
Lung Disease |
|
Bronchitis |
|
Brain Fever |
|
Hives |
|
Burn |
|
Palsy |
|
Old Age |
|
Unknown |
|
Ulcer |
1884
|
Flux |
|
Fever |
|
Swallowed Fish bone |
|
Liver Disease |
|
Inflam..stomach
(Inflamed) |
| Pneumonia Feaver
(fever) |
|
Chollera (cholera) |
|
Consumption |
|
Croup |
|
Canser (cancer) |
|
Cold |
|
Lung Fever |
|
Unknown |
|
Dipthery (Diphtheria) |
|
Old Age |
|
Spinal Affection
(Infection) |
|
Child Bed Fever |
|
Hart (Heart) Disease |
|
Brain Fever |
|
Inflammation Brain |
|
Dead Born |
|
Dropsy |
|
Ulser (ulcer) |
|
Cramp |
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Accidently (accidentaly)
killed by a tree |
|
Scrofula |
1885
|
Bole Hives |
|
Hooping Cough
(Whooping Cough) |
|
Spinal Affection
(infection) |
|
Bealing of Stomach |
|
Fits |
|
Hemorrhaging |
|
Flux |
|
Fits |
|
Pneumonia Fever |
|
Bold Hives |
|
Euresipullas (Erysipelas) |
|
Disease of Kidneys |
|
Cancer |
|
Unknown |
| Brain fever |
| Consumption |
| Scarlet Fever |
| Croup |
| Canser (cancer) |
| Accidental Shot |
| Bold Hives |
| Dropsey (dropsy) |
| Burnt to death |
| Bronchitus
(bronchitis) |
| Heart Disease |
1886-1887
|
Disease of liver |
|
Measels (measles) |
|
Flux |
|
Brain Fever |
|
Yellow Janders (Jaundice) |
|
Fever |
|
Consumption |
|
Inflammatory rheumatism |
|
Diseased lungs |
|
Croup |
|
Unknown |
|
Diptheria (diphtheria) |
|
Infermation (Inflammation) |
|
Bold Hives |
|
Hives |
|
Falling off Train |
|
Scrofula |
|
Burn |
|
Hooping (whooping) Cough |
|
Heart Disease |
|
Diptheria (diphtheria) |
|
Putrid Sore Throat |
|
Crooked limbs |
|
Bold hives |
|
Fevor (fever) |
|
Not known |
|
Dipthery (diphtheria) |
|
Not listed |
|
Cholerra (cholera) Infantum |
|
Flux |
|
Measels (measles) |
|
Inflation of Brain |
|
Croup |
|
Consumption |
|
Rupture In Side |
|
Dropsy |
|
Hives |
|
Childbed fever |
|
Child Bearing |
|
Unknown |
|
Croup and Bold Hives |
|
Lung Disease |
|
Hooping (whooping) Cough |
|
Enlargement of Bowels |
|
Hydrassal |
|
Bone Eresephlis (erysipelas) |
|
1888
|
Infermation (Inflammation ) of Brain |
|
Nerve Fever |
|
Asthma |
|
Consumption |
|
Not known |
|
Croup |
|
Paralysis |
|
Hives |
|
Dropsey (dropsy) |
|
Shot |
|
Hooping Cough (whooping cough) |
|
Infermation (Inflammation) of stomach |
| Rodeolo |
|
Not Known |
|
Heart Disease |
|
Measles |
|
Whooping Cough |
| Erechyalas (erysipelas) |
|
Brain Fever |
|
Fever |
|
Dipthera (diphtheria) |
1889
|
Yellow Jaundice |
|
Not Known |
|
Fever |
|
Spinal Affection |
|
Consumption |
|
Bold Hives |
|
Brain Fever |
|
Old Age |
|
Dysenterria (dysentery) |
|
Diptherie (diphtheria) |
|
Flux |
|
Paralysis |
|
Murdered |
|
Rupture on the Brain |
|
Lagrippe |
|
Dropsey (dropsy) |
|
Suicide |
|
Killed |
|
Rheumatism of the head |
|
Killed Accidentley (accidentally) |
|
Crop (croup?) |
|
Rheumatism of head |
|
Liver Diseas (disease) |
|
Paralysis |
|
Typhoid Fever |
|
Cholery (Cholera) Infantim |
|
Fits |
|
Pneumonia Fever |
|
Died at Birth |
|
Hives |
|
Inflamation (Inflammation) |
|
Membramers (Membranous) Croup |
|
Sore Throat |
|
Diptheria (diphtheria) |
|
Burn |
|
Billious Fever |
|
Inflamation (Inflammation) Bladder |
|
Paralysis |
1890
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