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From: ted greening <>
Subject: Pregnancy
Date: Sat, 03 Oct 1998 11:12:08 +1200

Further to the goings on of the Victorians. My Great grandmother
emigrated from Bampton in 1841 to Australia. Her daughter (my
grandmother) married at age 17 and died in NZ in 1878 at the age of 37,
having had 11 children, 9 still living. On her death certificate, the
main cause of death was peritonitis. I read somewhere that in Victorian
times, peritonitis was a euphimism for abortion. Has anyone else heard
this?

Ted Greening, Northcote, New Zealand.

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