On Dec 1, 4:13 am, "tomba...@city-net.com" <tomba...@city-net.com> wrote: > On Nov 30, 10:34 pm, Charles Ellson <char...@ellson.demon.co.uk> > wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 13:16:02 -0800 (PST), "tomba...@city-net.com" > > > <tomba...@city-net.com> wrote: > > >Would the death of a 3 month old infant be investigated by the > > >coronor's office.  It could have been sudden infant death, I do not > > >know > > > The date and jurisdiction involved might have a significant effect on > > the answer. > > The date would be 1940 and Westmoreland County, PA The term SIDS wasn't in use until 1969 when it was coined at the Second International Conference on Causes of Sudden Death in Infants (Seattle, WA). I think a lot of earlier infant deaths were handled in a fairly perfunctory way with family doctors signing off on deaths with rather general CODs. In earlier times where infant mortality rates were much higher than today, people were less obsessed with the exact causes of death than they are now. Unless a baby died because of obvious abuse, I think it's not likely that a postmortem would have been conducted. Nancy T