You know I don't normally post to the lists on Friday, but Don Burris of our list sent me an interesting email which listed the International List of Causes of Death in 1900. This is international, not just KY. But many have wondered over the years what the major causes of death were in the past. Wouldn't it be neat to have this list for KY in the 1800's? Anyway, I thought it most interesting and thought for a couple of Friday's I would post it to the list with my thanks to Don for finding this. Some of these diseases I'll have to look up to figure out what they are! 1 - Small-pox among those vaccinated 2 - Same - among unvaccinated 3 - Same - unknown if vacinnated or not 4 - Cow-pox and other effects of vaccination (found in cows and rodents, transferred to humans by handling the udders of an infected cow, etc.) 5 - Chicken-pox 6 - Measles 7 - German measles 8 - Scarlet fever 9 - Typhus 10 - Plague 11 - Relapsing fever (comes from the bites of ticks and lice) 12 - Influenza 13 - Whooping cough 14 - Mumps 15 - Diptheria 16 - Cerebro-spinal fever (infection of the brain and spinal cord) 17 - Pyrexia of unknown origin (above normal fever) 18 - Enteric fever (known also as typhoid fever) 19 - Asiatic cholera 20 - Diarrhea due to food 21 - Infective enteris (inflammation of small intestine) 22 - Diarrhea not defined 23 - Dystentery 24 - Tetanus 25 - Malaria 26 - Rabies 27 - Glanders (infectious disease of the glands, found primarily in animals but transferrable to humans) 28 - Anthrax 29 - Syphilis 30 - Gonorrhea 31 - Phlegmasia alba dolens (also called milk leg, deep vein thrombosis, found in new mothers) 32 - Puerperal septicaemia/intoxication (infection found in new mothers) 33 - Puerperal pyaemia (It is usually caused by the <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staphylococcus>staphylococcus bacteria by pus-forming organisms in the blood. Apart from the distinctive abscesses, pyaemia exhibits the same symptoms as other forms of septicaemia. It was almost universally fatal before the introduction of <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotics>antibiotics (Wikipedia) 34 - Puerperal fever not defined 35. Infective endocarditis (inflammation of the tissues of the heart) To be continued - Sandi Colonel Sandi Gorin President, South Central KY Historical & Genealogical Society Sandi's website: http://www.gensoup.org/gorin/index.html Sandi's puzzlers: http://www.gensoup.org/gorinpuzzles/index.php --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com