Daily AncestorUmbilical hemorrhage
Umbilical hemorrhage meant bleeding from a newborn's navel or cord stump, a cause of death in the first days of life.
The 1911 Census Bureau manual lists umbilical haemorrhage among other causes peculiar to early infancy, and IPUMS has a code for diseases of the umbilicus and injuries at birth.
The same manual says haemorrhage alone often hid the real cause, so the place of bleeding matters.
As seen in a recordCause of death column, 1850 to 1880 federal mortality schedule
Infant of Abm. Ruch, 6 ds., F, W, Apr., Umbilical hemorrhage
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