Oh punch that must have been utterly heart breaking. Was that in Australia? If it was the influenza epidemic back in 1919 was shocking and killed so many of them.
http://www.historysmiths.com.au/CentFedPlayKit/events/girt/1918_influenza%20epidemic.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_flu_pandemic
Teething cat? How on earth did that happen?
Been looking it up and can't find anything specific, but I imagine that the child was running a high temperature and finally went into convulsions and died.
This is the closest I could find:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000980.htm
What a fearful thing that would be for the parents.
I have found a number of young women who died in child birth. It's not actually noted as such, but when the mother is about 14 and her death date is the same as the child's birth date I think it would be almost a given...
Those were hard times weren't they.
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