Daily AncestorHemorrhage
Hemorrhage meant heavy bleeding; on an old record the place often follows, as in hemorrhage of the lungs, bowels or brain, which tells you the real cause.
Webster's 1913 defines hemorrhage as any discharge of blood from the blood vessels. Older records often add where it came from, which tells you more than the word alone.
Hemorrhage of the lungs usually meant consumption, and bleeding inside the brain was apoplexy, a stroke. IPUMS codes hemorrhage and nosebleed together, and puerperal hemorrhage separately, in its scheme for the 1850 to 1880 mortality schedules.
As seen in a recordCause of death column, 1850 to 1880 federal mortality schedule
Michael Foy, 45, M, W, Hemorrhage
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