Deaths 100 Years Ago

Causes of death 100 years ago this month--Taken from Lawrence County Death Records February 1924

How many of these deaths could have been prevented with what medical professionals know now?

• Verlin J Harshman -3 days -neonatal death

• Daniel Anderew Phillips -9 days- Premature birth

• Percy William Fowler -2 months old -Acute pharyngitis (sore throat)

• Wanetta Mae Thomas -9 months -Whooping cough

• Harold Dean Angle -1 year -Catarrhal Pneumonia

• Kenneth Emery Rosborough- 9 years old - Typhoid fever

• Lola Mae Philipps -23 years old -Pneumonia

• Margaret Pearl Biehl- 39 years- Abscess right lung

• Bess Tiffany- 44 years old -Cancer of the liver

• George Gray - 54 years -Angina Pectoris (coronary heart disease)

• Anabell Elizabeth McCloskey- 66 years old -Mitral regurgitation

• Ellen Jeanette Smith- 66 years old -Cerebral Hemorrhage / Brights disease

• Joe J Allison -67 years old -Angina Pectoris (coronary heart disease)

• Ham Laughlin- 67 years old - Angina Pectoris (coronary heart disease)

• Mary A Bunn -79 years -Asthma and General senility

• Amanda Lawrence- 81 years- Senility