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1. https://staceylcamp.wordpress.com/2017/05/12/learning-about-infantchild-mortality-through-death-certificates/
The death certificate says that the cause of Mark's death was “inanition.” According to Baker, inanition “was a medical term reserved for the most acutely ill…patients…it may have overlapped with dehydration or starvation” (2005:111). This term started to disappear from medical books and diagnoses in 1920. The author dug a little deeper and found an 1895 article in the Archives of Pediatrics describing the condition. From that article, the author gathered that inanition often arose from starvation when mothers could not adequately nurse their children. Holt, the author of the article, writes that infants would often recover when they were fed by a wet nurse, demonstrating, at least to Holt, that the infant’s mother had what we now call insufficient milk syndrome.
"The symptoms presented by these infants were a hot and dry skin, marked restlessness, dry mouth, and a dis-position to suck vigorously anything within reach-everything indicating great thirst. With a very high temperature there was considerable prostration and weakened pulse. In the milder cases there was only unusual restlessness and crying. The rapidity with which the symptoms disappeared when the children were nursed or fed was striking".
Description of "Inanition" from Emmett L. Holt's 1895 "Inanition Fever in the Newly Born," Archives of Pediatrics, Volume 12, No. 8, pp. 561-565.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Mark Leitch

Andrew Leitch
1826-1910
Elizabeth Allen McLaren
1833-1909
Charles K Palmer
1830-????
Mary L Leary
1841-????

Mark Leitch
1908-1908


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    1. United States Births, 1908 Record for Mark Leitch "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925," , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-D1WS-C8B?cc=1928860 : 15 November 2022), > image 1 of 1; State Archives, Boston.
      Name: Mark Leitch
      Event Type: Birth
      Event Date: 23 Jan 1908
      Event Place: Adams, Berkshire, Massachusetts, United States
      Event Place (Original): Adams, Massachusetts, United States
      Gender: Male
      Father's Name: John M Leitch
      Mother's Name: Annie Palmer

      Page: item 1 p 37
      GS Film Number: 2315250
      Digital Folder Number: 004383938
      Image Number: 00013
      Indexing Project (Batch) Number: I10627-0

      Citing this Record
      "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925," , FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-D1WS-C8B?cc=1928860 : 15 November 2022), > image 1 of 1; State Archives, Boston.
    2. United States Deaths, 1908 Record for Mark Leitch "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1925", database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWTC-D75 : 13 December 2022), Mark Leitch, 1908. What does inanition mean? ( medicine) A state of advanced lack of adequate nutrition, food, or water or a physiological inability to utilize them, with resulting weakness.
      Name: Mark Leitch
      Event Type: Death
      Event Date: 14 Feb 1908
      Event Place: Adams,,Massachusetts
      Gender: Male
      Age: 0
      Marital Status: Single
      Race: White
      Birth Date: 1908
      Birth Year (Estimated): 1908
      Birthplace: Adams, Massachusetts
      Father's Name: John M
      Mother's Name: Annie Palmer
      COD: Inanition
      As cert by JJ Mahady M.D.
      Burial: Maple Street Cemetery
      Source Reference: Leitch, Mark, 1908
      Record Number: 60

      Reference ID: 206
      GS Film Number: 2217703
      Digital Folder Number: 4282864
      Digital Folder Number: 004282864
      Image Number: 00060
      Indexing Project (Batch) Number: B07225-4

      Citing this Record
      "Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NWTC-D75 : 6 April 2020), Mark Leitch, 14 Feb 1908; citing Adams,,Massachusetts, 206, State Archives, Boston; FHL microfilm 2,217,703.

    Historical events

    Birthday January 23, 1908

    • The temperature on January 23, 1908 was between -6.2 °C and -2.6 °C and averaged -4.9 °C. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
      • January 11 » Grand Canyon National Monument is created.
      • January 30 » Indian pacifist and leader Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is released from prison by Jan C. Smuts after being tried and sentenced to two months in jail earlier in the month.
      • April 11 » SMSBlücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched.
      • August 17 » Fantasmagorie, the first animated cartoon, created by Émile Cohl, is shown in Paris, France.
      • September 27 » Production of the Model T automobile begins at the Ford Piquette Avenue Plant in Detroit.
      • October 14 » The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series.

    Day of death February 14, 1908

    • The temperature on February 14, 1908 was between -1 °C and 6.3 °C and averaged 3.3 °C. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
      • March 9 » Inter Milan was founded on Football Club Internazionale, following a schism from A.C. Milan.
      • May 10 » Mother's Day is observed for the first time in the United States, in Grafton, West Virginia.
      • June 27 » A group of Vietnamese tirailleurs conducts a failed attempt to poison the entire French army's garrison in the Hanoi Citadel with the aim to make way for Hoàng Hoa Thám's rebel army to capture Hanoi.
      • July 1 » SOS is adopted as the international distress signal.
      • July 25 » Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in kombu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
      • September 16 » The General Motors Corporation is founded.

    Day of burial February 15, 1908

    • The temperature on February 15, 1908 was between 2.1 °C and 7.2 °C and averaged 4.9 °C. There was 7.7 mm of rain. The average windspeed was 5 Bft (very strong wind) and was prevailing from the southwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 17, 1905 to February 11, 1908 the cabinet De Meester, with Mr. Th. de Meester (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1908: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 5.7 million citizens.
      • March 4 » The Collinwood school fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
      • April 11 » SMSBlücher, the last armored cruiser to be built by the Imperial German Navy, is launched.
      • June 27 » A group of Vietnamese tirailleurs conducts a failed attempt to poison the entire French army's garrison in the Hanoi Citadel with the aim to make way for Hoàng Hoa Thám's rebel army to capture Hanoi.
      • September 17 » The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
      • November 3 » William Howard Taft is elected the 27th President of the United States.
      • November 28 » A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154 men, leaving only one survivor.
    

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