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From: "Tom Montgomery" <>
Subject: Re: [MEDICAL-PEDIGREE] The Great Influenza of 1918-19
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 20:33:49 -0700
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Appears you have one of those situations where some members of the family "assumed" it was
the flu whereas she died of something very different. There were so many people expiring
due to the flu that the assumption was widespread......."if they died it was the flu that
did it". New York City alone had 33,000 flu deaths..

Tom M.........

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From: "Rosemary" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2003 6:50 PM
Subject: [MEDICAL-PEDIGREE] The Great Influenza of 1918-19


Hello: One of the family stories is that my husband's grandmother died
in Manitoba in 1919 of the "Spanish Flu". She was 47 years old. I sent
for the death registration, and the cause of death was entered as
"Chronic rheumatism with diarrhea and enteritis." The death
registration was attached to an "authorization for burial" signed by a
coroner. If a person died of the 'Flu, how would the cause of death be
described? Has the application of the term "rheumatism" changed since
1919?

Thanks, Rosemary



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