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Mortality Schedule

1870 Collin County, Texas Census

Schedule 2: Persons who died during the year ending 1^st June

Reel T-1134

Roll 55

1. Number of the Family in second column Schedule 1

2. Name of person who died during the year ending June 1, 1870

3. Age last birthday. If under one year give months in factions.

4. Sex: males (m), females (f)

5. Color: White (w), Black (b), Mulatto (m) Chinese (ch), Indian (I)

6. Married (m) or widowed (w)

7. Place of Birth, naming the State or Territory of the United States, or country if of foreign birth

8. Father of foreign birth

9. Mother of foreign birth

10. Month in which Person died

11. Profession, occupation or trade

12. Disease or cause of death

Diseases and Causes of death:

1. Colic- acute abdominal spasm and pain, which may be caused by kidney stones or gallstones or other conditions

2. Consumption-tuberculosis

1. Debility-probably premature baby if referring to infant

2. Erysipelas-skin disease caused by streptococci bacteria, which can cause blood poisoning in some cases

3. Hives-skin eruption, nonfatal; may actually be croup

4. Hydrothorax-“water” in thorax; congestive heart failure

5. Intermittent Fever-probably malaria

6. Sarfula-maybe scrofula, which is the former name of tuberculous cervical lymphadenitis.

Statistics:

1. Number of deaths June 1, 1869-June 1, 1870-192

2. Infants under 1 year accounted for 70% of the deaths

3. 34% of deaths caused by meningitis, cerebrospinal fever and brain fever (vast majority in Precinct 1)

4. 15% of deaths caused by pneumonia

5. 15% of deaths caused by consumption, lung inflammation and lung hemorrhage

6. 15% of deaths caused by whooping cough

7. 9% of deaths caused by intermittent and remittent fevers (malaria)

8. 8% of deaths caused by violence, either intentional or accidental

9. 17% of deaths caused by gastrointestinal disorders/diseases

10. Seven out of eight deaths caused by debility were infants 1 month or less in age (possibly prematurity)

Family No.	Name	Age	Gender	Color	Married/ Divorced	State Of Birth	Father of Foreign Birth	Mother of Foreign Birth	Month in which died	Profession Occup- ation Trade	Disease of cause of death
					Precinct	1
Family #485	Amos, Margaret	11	Female	White		TX			March	At home	Cerebro- spinal meningitis
Family #422	Atkinson, Ada	5	Female	White		TX			April		Cerebro- spinal meningitis
Family #612	Baird, Charles	3	Male	White		TN			May		Remittent fever
Family #450	Boone, Ivanora	1/12	Female	White		TX			December		Diseased heart
Family #654	Brown, Clay	11	Male	White		TX			February		Cerebro- spinal fever
Family #130	Burton, Malinda	55	Female	White	Widow	TN			February		Chronic bronchitis
Family #334	Combs, James	40	Male	White	Married	KY			September		Hydrothorax
Family #16	Crouch, Ora	5	Female	White		TX			May		Unknown
Family #317	Crutchfield, Jane	1/12	Female	White		TX			April		Croup
Family #39	Davis, Julia	30	Female	White	Married	AR			March	Keeping house	Consumption
Family #309	Denny, Josiah	66	Male	White	Married	NC			September	Farmer	Hemorrhage of lungs
Family #664	Dews, Samuel	48	Male	White		KY			November	Saddler	Wounds
Family #173	Doyle, David	7/12	Male	White		TX			May		Small pox
Family #324	Doyle, William	1	Male	White		TX			May		Burnt to death
Family #237	Duncan, Addison	35	Male	White	Married	TN			March	Farmer	Typhoid fever
Family #383	Farwell, Minnie	5/12	Female	White		TX			September		Cholera infection
Family #548	Gaston, William	8	Male	White		TX			October		Hydrothorax
Family #50	Gates, William	1/12	Male	White		TX			February		Cerebro- spinal meningitis
Family #175	Graves, John	4/12	Male	Black		TX			April		Fever
Family #164	Hall, Adella	11	Female	White		TX			February	At home	Cerebro- spinal fever
Family #164	Hall, Henry	7	Male	White		TX			February		Cerebro- spinal meningitis
Family #220	Horn, Alexander	10	Male	White		TX			September	Farm laborer