Cause of death help

[SingaporeSlinky]

Cause of death on a certificate from 1871 was given as
gastric fever
ulceration of mucous membrane of bowel

Is this typhoid?

Her 6 week old baby had died 6 days earlier - would you think same cause of death was likely?

Something like colitis?

It does possibly sound like typhoid. If you Google how does typhoid cause death:

The structure of proximate causes of death was as following: perforative peritonitis (30.8%), pneumonia (20.0%), acute heart failure (13.8%), intestinal ulcer hemorrhage (12.3%), suprarenal hemorrhage (7.7%).

Either that or some kind of viral infection. Do you know much about the person's life?

When I googled gastric fever, it came up as typhoid straight away, but I’d have thought typhoid would have been listed specifically as typhoid, if it was that. I don’t know enough about it to know if maybe it was more commonly listed as other things at that time, though. Thought some experts here might know.

I know she lived in Sheffield, probably in a crowded dwelling with at least husband, 1 child, plus the new baby. That’s about it.

If the death was certified by a different doctor, then they may have just given it a different name. I don't think they were particularly consistent in those days.

@twingiraffes sorry I wasn’t clear, there is only one doctor. I haven’t ordered the death certificate for the baby, my spending on these is already getting out of hand. I was just asking if it would be likely that given the baby only died 6 days before the mother, that the baby would likely have died of the same thing. Of course, impossible to say. But my understanding of typhoid (if it was that) is that it’s highly contagious.
Having googled a bit more about typhoid, this would have been quite early days, so perhaps it wasn’t a commonly known disease yet.