Cholera death certificate.

[GerryM]

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I have a copy of a death certificate for a John Albert Supple, died 5Aug1849. I am having difficulty reading part of the "cause of death" section.
The attachment is just the section, the whole certificate was too big and reducing its size made it less readable.

My transcription of it reads:

Consumption, Some years.
Cholera, six days.
Secondary, ?? fever three days.
Certified.

The question is what is the ??. I think it looks like "16", but I can't see how that makes sense.

While I think I've got the rest of it correctly I'd also appreciate any corrections if anyone thinks otherwise.

[BC Wench]

Your transcription looks right to me. I think the Secondary fever is 1b, with Cholera being 1a even though it isn't written down.

[GerryM]

Certainly a possibility, but I didn't think that sort of classification started until 1874, with the introduction of the Medical Certificate of Cause of Death. I did look at all the death certificates I could find from before 1874 and that classification wasn't on any of them.

[BC Wench]

Well, I never knew that about the classification. We're never too old to learn