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Illnesses reported to be Cause of Death in the Workhouse Death Registers
Illness |
Illness |
Illness |
| Abscess | Disease of Liver | Paraplegia |
| Acute Bronchitis | Dropsey | Peritonitis |
| Anaemia | Dropsy | Phthisis |
| Apoplexy | Epilepsy | Pneumonia |
| Asthenia | Epilepsy Paralysis | Puerperal Fever |
| Asthma | Epithelioma | Pulmonary Phthisis |
| Asthma Cardiac Syncope | Epithelioma of Legs | Sarcoma of Right Breast |
| Bright's Disease | Eulene Meningitis | Scrofula |
| Bronchitis Acute | Euteric Cerebro spinal Meningitis | Scrofulous Ulcer |
| Bronchitis Chronic | Gangrene | Scurfula |
| Burns | Gastritis | Senile Debility Bronchitis |
| Cancer | General Debility | Senile Decay |
| Cancer Cervix Uteri | General Paralysis of the Insane | Serofulous disease of Elbow Joint |
| Cancer of Uterus | Glossitis | Strangulated Hernia; |
| Cardiac Disease | Haemorrhage | Syncope |
| Cardiac Syncope | Heart Disease Syncope | Syphilis Congenital |
| Carditis | Hemiplegia | Traumatic Peritonitis |
| Catarrh | Hemorrhage of Lungs | Tubercular Disease of Sacrum |
| Chronic Bronchitis | Hypertrophy of Liver | Tubercular Disease of Tarsal bones |
| Chronic Gastritis | Influenza | Tuberculous Disease of Lungs |
| Congestion of Brain | Inside Decay | Typhoid |
| Consumption Pulmonary | Marasmus | Typhoid Fever |
| Convulsions | Mealses | Typhoid Meningitis |
| Cystitis | Melamcholia | Ucleration of Stomach |
| Debility | Meningitis | Ulcer of Stomach Peritoniti |
| Debility Diarrhoea | Mitral Regurgitation (Congestion of Lungs) | Uterine Tumour |
| Diabetes Mellitus | Nephria | Weak Heart |
| Diabeties | Nephritis | |
| Diarrhoea | Papura Hemorrhagica | |
| Diphteria | Paralysis | |
There are more ailments and causes of death to be added to this page. |
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We hope to give explanations and modern equivalents of these ailments in the near future |
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These are links to some web sites which explain what many of the old illnesses and ailments were.
We regret we can not vouch for their absolute accuracy
http://rmhh.co.uk/illness.html
http://www.archaicmedicalterms.com/
http://www.neonatology.org/classics/old.terms.html
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~memigrat/diseases.html
http://courses.wcupa.edu/jones/his480/notes/deth-dic.htm
http://hsl.mcmaster.libguides.com/hhm/oldwords
http://loricase.com/old-medical-terms.html
