Hand Writing?

arthurk said:
Morbus coxae:
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http://www.hharp.org/medical-terms/Morbus%20coxae
Extremely helpful.... NOT! Other Google results suggest it's connected to tuberculosis.
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Poor little mite, only five years old and he was in hospital nine months, he moved from one hospital to another. I cant imagine he would get many if any visitors as it was far from home.
 
Archie's Mum said:
Morbid coxae senilis=deformity of the femoral head. There is more but I didn't read it. Hope that helps.
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Yes, but I think that is a disease of/in the elderly (senilis) and is linked with osteoarthritis.
All morbid/morbus coxae means is a disease of the hip bone or hip joint.
[I hated Latin at school, but it's come in useful in later life]
 
I should have taken a breath but I got excited, the three admissions I am seeing are all for 1888. We saw him as a patient in 1891 on the census. I haven't found a record for this admission. Presumably the little lad was readmitted. I have no doubt they are all one and the same person. I will look with a bit more detail at spelling variations. I did also see an admission for a Frank Dolby, he only stayed in two days with a neck abscess. This one was the right age for Wiiliam's brother Frank but the address given was in Middlesex? Such a lot to think about!
 
OK Now I have seen the 1891 admission, this one gives more information and says the cause of his condition was an accident? Now a couple of years after the other records, it is recorded he had great deformity and an abscess, his stay this time was nearly two years.
 
That's helpful - from a research point of view, not so good for him of course. Was that on the HHARP site too? I didn't spot it.
 
That explains it - but far better anyway for you to explore the site first hand so you can discover this kind of thing.
 
Amle said:
His condition was recorded as Morbus coxae
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Mm, my husband's 3rd great grandfather died of the disease, otherwise known as hip joint disease. Usually affects children - it is tubercular, and it can be halted by complete rest. 3rd g-grandfather was in his early 20s when he died - as an ag lab he would have carried on working to provide for his baby daughter.
 
arthurk said:
That explains it - but far better anyway for you to explore the site first hand so you can discover this kind of thing.
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Sorry - that didn't come out quite right. What I meant was that because you know more about your family than I do, then if you are able to look at it yourself, you're far more likely to spot things that are relevant to them.
 
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