About this schedule:
The 1850 census had a census day of 1 June 1850. This mortality schedule lists the name of any person who died between 1 June 1849 and 31 May 1850.
Mortality Schedule diseases:
These definitions were found using information from the 1899 Merck Manual, 1999 Merck Manual, Taber’s Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary and 25 years of nursing. They are offered as possibilities, NOT absolute answers!
Apoplexy—stroke.
Canker—ulcer.
Catarrh fever—inflammation of the mucous membranes of head and throat; poss. Strep throat.
Consumption—Tuberculosis.
Del Trems—delirium tremens, alcoholism.
Dropsy—excessive fluid in the abdominal cavity or brain.
Erysipelas—“red skin”, inflammation and lesions of skin of face and head caused by streptococci.
Flux—excessive flow or discharge of fluid from an organ or body cavity; poss. Vomiting and/or diarrhea
Heart congs—congestive heart failure.
Jaundice—symptom of liver disease.
Lung fever—poss. pneumonia.
Palsy—Parkinson’s.
Scrofula—type of tuberculosis causing swelling in the neck glands, most common in children.
Spasms, Fits—convulsions, epilepsy.
Worms—chyluria (lymph in urine caused by an obstruction or abnormal connection to the kidney); intestinal worm/parasite.
Kathlena Funk-Anderson
Researching surnames (all Ohio, Tuscarawas and Stark Co.) BIXLER, BORDER/ BARDER, EVANS, FUNK, HOCHSTETLER/HOSTETLER, HUFF, KRIEG/KREIG, LOEFFLER, MAURER, MENGES, MOSER, RETZLER, SEIBERT.
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