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Family
Marriage: Children:
  1. William A. Doud: Birth: 24 APR 1860 in San Francisco, CA. Death: 11 AUG 1900 in San Francisco, CA

  2. Alice Annette Doud: Birth: 03 MAY 1862 in San Francisco, CA. Death: 16 OCT 1941 in Los Gatos, CA

  3. Lillian Samarantha Doud: Birth: 04 JAN 1865 in San Francisco, CA. Death: 11 NOV 1865 in San Francisco, CA

  4. Flora Bell Doud: Birth: NOV 1866 in San Francisco, CA. Death: 14 JUN 1886 in San Francisco, CA

  5. unnamed Doud: Birth: 02 SEP 1869 in San Francisco, CA. Death: 02 SEP 1869 in San Francisco, CA


Sources
1. Title:   Teall.ged
2. Title:   San Francisco Call Newspaper
Page:   Obituaries
3. Title:   Doud-Dowd and Allied Families
Author:   O. L. Doud
Publication:   Name: Pub 1976 by Doud-Dowd Association;

Notes
a. Note:   1859 City Directory has Charles H. and Miss Elizabeth Bryan boarding with W.H. Wood on the S side of Natoma between Second and Third. This is where Rolyah Doud (listed as Rowland) lived as well.
  San Francisco Bulletin March 30, 1868
  Sailing of the "Golden City"
 The Pacific Mail Steamship Co's steamer Golden City will sail on Tuesday next at the usual hour. Following is a list of passengers as booked at 2 1/2 P.M. to-day
 ..
 Mrs. Aaron Dowd
  Did she sail to Panama to meet and bring back a family member or friend?
  Judging from the birth and death dates of Elizabeth and her unamed daughter, I would assume she died of complications of childbirth.
  From the San Francisco Call September 7, 1869
  DOUD- In this city, September 6, Elizabeth, wife of Aaron Doud, aged 30 years.
  Cause of death: Puerperal Peritonitis
  Inflammation of the peritoneum (membrane lining the abdominal cavity). Characterized by violent pain in the abdomen, increased by the slightest pressure, often by simple weight of bed clothes. It frequently occurs in parturient state and begins on the second or third day after delivery. At times, a malignant epidemic, and perhaps contagious, variety has made its appearance, and destroyed numbers of females. This has been described under the name puerperal fever, metroperitonitis and low fever of child bed. [Dunglison1874]
  In 1843 Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809�-1894), Professor of Anatomy & Physiology at Harvard, wrote in his celebrated paper entitled "On the Contagiousness of Puerperal Fever" that: "...if one case of puerperal fever arises in a physician's practice there is an increased risk of a second, two cases suggest that the physician should do no obstetrics for at least a month, and three prima facie evidence that he is the source of the contagion."
  The Viennese physician Ignaz Philip Semmelweiss (1818-1862) provided proof of the cause of puerperal fever. �In 1847 he ordered hand washing in chlorinated water before delivering infants and the mortality from childbed fever declined dramatically. Semmelweiss wrote that: "Puerperal fever is caused by conveyance to the pregnant woman of putrid particles derived from living organisms, through the agency of the examining fingers....... Consequently must I make my confession that God only knows the number of women whom I have consigned prematurely to the grave."



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