Note: DEATH: Inverkeithing, Fife 1885 p.2/6 Helen Gavin (factory worker, single) 17yrs. Father Hugh Gavin (Carter) Mother Ann Gavin MS Mercer. Cause of Death: phthisis Pulmonaris 6 months. Registered by father H. Gavin (his signature) Need to check burial date - transcript has 21st August 1885. reckon it is 21st Jan. Probably want to bury folk with TB as quick as possible due to contagion? Helen was the second known victim of this disease in the family. First was baby Ann Peacock, daughter of sister Sarah in 1884, then brother David in 1889. Sister Sarah's daughter Ann was next in 1914 and daughter Davina (and her baby Robert) in 1917. It does seem that TB was possibly endemic in this family as apparently 9 out of 10 people can overcome it before it becomes life threatening, but it doesn't go away - the immune system forms a tubercole (looks like a small tuber) which isolates the bacterium, but it can burst out at any time years later infecting both the carrier and people in close contact. The carrier may even recover but have fatally infected someone else.
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