Daily AncestorHeat prostration
Heat prostration meant collapse and great weakness from extreme heat, a cause grouped with heat stroke and sunstroke.
Webster's 1913 gives prostration in medicine as a great depression of the vital powers. IPUMS puts heat stroke, heat prostration and coup de soleil in one code.
The 1911 Census Bureau manual titles this group effects of heat, with sunstroke as its example, so a death from heat prostration was counted with sunstroke.
As seen in a recordCause of death line, state death certificate, 1910s to 1930s
Cause: Heat prostration. Contributory: Alcoholism.
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