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

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MmNc01 · 05/10/2021 01:30

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

OP posts:
Lougle · 05/10/2021 17:22

It's interesting that there is no birth date on the certificate. I agree that it's ileocolitis.

Toddlerteaplease · 05/10/2021 17:25

@NotBadConsidering

If it was ileo colitis in a baby that age, I wonder if it was actually intussception.
Yes. It's an unusual diagnosis for a baby.
JudgeJ · 05/10/2021 17:33

@Lougle

It's interesting that there is no birth date on the certificate. I agree that it's ileocolitis.
From the informatopn about age and date of death I make the DOB 28th December 1919. It's horrible how many children died very young in the 19th/early 20th century. I do some transcribing of parish records and it's not unusual to see a family lose three or four children within a few days. Recently I one where a young wife had died and then within a couple of days their newborn triplets had all died.
Ozanj · 05/10/2021 17:39

It would be dysentry that the child died from. Across the US ileocolitis was used instead

Fernie6491 · 13/10/2021 18:50

I find these documents/certificates fascinating, and am getting used to reading and deciphering them as I volunteer as a subscriber for FamilySearch.org, - I have an interest in genealogy.
Some of these certificates are heartbreaking, although some also shocking - quite a few died from gunshot wounds.

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