The word pupura suggests that the bruise could be seen. To the lay person you can have no visable signs of a brain haemorrhage. (I won't go into GCS scores here!) It could have been massive trauma resulting in something like a ruptured spleen. The superficial trauma would have caused  bruises. Chris ________________________________ From: Magdalena GORRELL GUIMARAENS <m.gorrell@aiic.net> To: CHRISTINE WILLOTT <christine.willott@btopenworld.com> Cc: "yorksgen@rootsweb.com" <yorksgen@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, 20 June 2012, 12:09 Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] YORKSGEN Digest, Vol 7, Issue 289 Hi, We can but guess.  Could he have had some kind of fall or altercation that resulted in a massive bruise on his head - very obvious - hiding an underlying, fatal brain haemmorhage? Magdalena On 20 June 2012 11:55, CHRISTINE WILLOTT <christine.willott@btopenworld.com> wrote: Hi > > >I too was confused. Magdalena is right to say puerperal haemorrhage is a post partum haemorrhage and so only affects women after the placenta is delivered  but I thought this cause of death related to the man. In which case the technical term for bruises is pupura. It is difficult to say at this length of time exactly what the type of bleed would have been to have caused the death. Whatever caused the bleed it must have been substantial. > > >Chris > AIIC Mail - A service provided by the International Association of Conference Interpreters --- http://aiic.net

Hello Chris, I agree with you (are you a medical doctor?) that the word purpura suggests bruises could be seen. The death certificate says "parpura(haemorrhage)" i.e. spelt pApura but it is known to us as pUrpura. Must say I had thought of all sorts of haemorrhages but didn't think of a ruptured spleen. He was a blacksmith working at HM Dockyards, Blue Town. The information on the internet sites can be confusing (baffles me with science:)). Kind regards Ann