Two doctors examined Mrs Guy's body but no post-mortem examination was carried out and a death certificate was issued listing her causes of death as broncho-pneumonia, septicaemia and hypertensive heart disease.
Case types were defined as follows: "Pure pneumonic cases were those in which no buboes could be found, but in which there was definite broncho-pneumonia. The mixed cases were those in which there was definite broncho-pneumonia, as well as buboes, and the B.
Other common causes of hospital admission were broncho-pneumonia 587 (5.32%), jaundice neonatorum 527 (4.78%) and congenital heart diseases 356 (3.23%) (table-II).
Senior coroner for Sefton, Knowsley and St Helens, Christopher Sumner, ruled the cause of death was natural and due to corpulmonale (a failure of his heart) contributed to by broncho-pneumonia and severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
1 Bilateral basal pneumonia Reactive airway disease 2 No reported Reactive airway findings disease 3 Bilateral patchy No infiltrates in the bases 4 Broncho-pneumonia Intrauterine growth restriction Unspecified musculoskeletal disorder Source: Prepared by the authors based on the study results.