Oorzaak: Inanition, as cert by JJ Mahady M.D.
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.
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.
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.