Can you decipher the cause of death on this 100 year-old death certificate?

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I've been trying without success for hours.

Incorrect spelling of some kind of colitis? Head collision? Heart something?

Link to image of the certificate: imgur.com/a/dG5wZ48

It looks like it says ileo colitis. www.visualdx.com/visualdx/diagnosis/ileocolitis?diagnosisId=50196&moduleId=101

I'd say illeocolitis too.

Yes, I’d say ileo colitis. Maybe that’s how colitis was spelled in N Carolina in the 20s

Ileo colitis, although I'm pretty sure it should technically be one word.

I think incorrect spelling of colitis. Perhaps the first word is a shortening of sepsis? The first letter has similarities to the "S" of September.

Looked at it again after reading the oosts and it is Ileo Colitis.

Ha! Doctors writing.

Can't read it sorry.

Thinking that in 1921 I think. There may be terms no longer used/ things that weren't known then.

What I find fascinating OP so thanks for sharing is a USA death cert from then.

I didn't notice until I saw race. And thought. Hold up a sec that is very odd.

Going to have another look! Really interesting.

I wonder what birth death marriage from other places are like. Over time. Bet they give a snapshot of all sorts of different things seen as important!

Hmm I tried to look at other words that I could make out to see if I could see the same letter shapes but I can't. Look at the top left, it looks to me like Female is spelt Femall? So maybe there are spelling mistakes.

Ileo colitis - should be ileocolitis

It's Coronavirus. I heard they write it on all birth certificates 😉

Sorry, bad taste 🤫 Yes, I agree it looks like Ileocolitis. How sad, poor wee mite 🙁

Aww, she was just a baby.

@arcof

Hmm I tried to look at other words that I could make out to see if I could see the same letter shapes but I can't. Look at the top left, it looks to me like Female is spelt Femall? So maybe there are spelling mistakes.

I think it's just how he does a terminal E: if you look at the middle name above, Marie has a very similar final letter.

The dot on the letter before threw me for a second (I thought he had spelled it femail), but I realized that he probably is writing with an ink pen that's caught on the page.

It's definitely ileo colitis, which is now usually diagnosed as a type of Chron's disease (but may well have meant merely a bowel inflammation of some sort - she was very little for any kind of formal diagnosis).

I think the little loop symbol means " acute".
I have seen it used on medical notes im sure.

OMG the typos -- I'm one to talk.

Crohn's disease, obviously, and ileocolitis.

If it was ileo colitis in a baby that age, I wonder if it was actually intussception.

Thank you all so much for the replies, it's really a big help.

It's been 100 years since she died but we still take flowers/little pinecones to her grave. Poor baby.

This is the cemetery where she is, it's a pretty little place.

www.flickr.com/photos/gerrydincher/28670003940/in/photostream/

www.findagrave.com/memorial/48317871/myrtle-marie-wilson

@HappyDays40

I think the little loop symbol means " acute". I have seen it used on medical notes im sure.

Thank you for this. I'd been wondering about that.

'Home made sadder but heaven brighter' although something lovely about living people thinking about her.

This is interesting - bit of a dense read, but page 13 contains the relevant info. It seems as if Ileocolitis was used as a bit of a catch all to mean bowel disorder with an inflammatory element, and rather than crohns, it was then used to mean things like dysentery, and other infectious bowel/diarrohea in infants caused by infectious diseases.
The whole thesis is interesting as it shows the huge risk there were to infant survival from infectious diseases due to insanitary conditions, unsterilised and innappropriate feeding etc. Mostly factors due to either ignorance, extreme poverty or lack of scientific developments.

Very sad to see these death certs and realise that infant death was so common. And something like dysentery could wipe out a hole family of children very quickly.

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yes, collitis. One of my ancestors in England had that on theirs too (i bought at least 100 so have been looking at loads of them)

Hi. I couldn't make this out but my husband thought it could be ileocolitis.

Ileo Colitis aka Crohn's disease.

@NotBadConsidering

If it was ileo colitis in a baby that age, I wonder if it was actually intussception.

I had intussception as a baby/toddler

I've left virtual flowers on her grave, so poor little love is remembered online too. it's lovely you take 'gifts' for her op.

Probably diarrhoea and vomiting, which would probably be a fairly common cause of death at that time.