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Deaths of Children
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Marie | Report | 6 Sep 2009 19:33 |
Just wanted to share this sad information with someone please. My great great uncle and aunt who lived in Newcastle upon Tyne lost a baby and a two year old in 1911, and then a further child in 1912. Were conditions just so bad in those days or could there have been another factor in these deaths ? |
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Shirley~I,m getting the hang of it | Report | 6 Sep 2009 19:37 |
Living conditions were bad and TB was still very rifeLots of families shared rented rooms in a house so multilple occupancy was still the norm in inner city living |
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Jean | Report | 6 Sep 2009 19:39 |
I have a relative who on the 1911 census stated he & his wife had had 15 children of which 10 had died, I have checked this out & all died in infancy |
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Helen in Bucks | Report | 6 Sep 2009 19:41 |
don't want to cast aspersions but the Martin Freeman programme on WDYTYA had a very interesting bit about syphillis and the effect on children, many children born to syphillitic parents "failed to thrive" and it was apparently usual for most or all children born to the couple to die in infancy for a period of 4-5 years and then they often went on to have healthy children |
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Marie | Report | 6 Sep 2009 19:45 |
thanks for the replies, I actually seen that programme yeah and that had crossed my mind I must admit ! Think I will have to get the death certs to know for sure x |
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Madmeg | Report | 6 Sep 2009 21:42 |
My G grandfather had 13 children, of whom only 4 lived beyond a few days. He was supposedly not "poor" compared to some but his wife was a lot younger than him and probably didn't cope well with a pregnancy every year. No surprising that she died in childbirth in 1910. |
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Kate | Report | 6 Sep 2009 21:46 |
Makes you wonder, Margaret, perhaps she had a bad time giving birth to one (say, she could have lost a lot of blood or it was a big baby and she was small) and then she fell pregnant again almost immediately - I bet that sort of thing could have a bad impact. |
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 6 Sep 2009 21:59 |
It doesn't always hold true of course. |
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Madmeg | Report | 6 Sep 2009 22:06 |
Yeah, makes you wonder. My g grandfather remarried within 2 months of his little wife dying (I suppose he needed a mother for the children), and the sensible woman had no children with him! |