Personal Details Name: Miss Maria C Engelbrecht Born in camp? No Place of death: Bloemfontein RC Died in camp? Yes Cause of death: cardiac failure, due to heart disease Gender: female Race: white Marital status: single Nationality: Free State Registration as child: Yes Unique ID: 1938 Camp History Name: Bloemfontein RC Illness Reason: heart disease Description: 11/9/1902: Pern, PMO, Bloemfontein to Superintendent, Bloemfontein: Probably died of cardiac failure, due to heart disease. No PM was done. She was a weakly girl, and had enteric in hospital during January, February and March 1902. The people have a strong antipathy to PMs, and as the parents were entirely to blame if the girl had been previously ill, as the camp nurses had visited the tent on the morning of the day she died, and the mother had told her there was no one ill in the tent, he did not think it necessary to do more than report the occurrence. In the future he will report such a case at once, and await instructions from head-quarters concerning a post-mortem. Out patient: Yes Hospital: Bloemfontein RC Reason: enteric Date arrival: January 1902 Out patient: Yes Sources Title: SRC 28 Type: Correspondence Location: VAB Reference No.: 28 Dates: Aug-Sept 1902 Notes: RC9786, 11/9/1902: Pern, PMO, Bloemfontein to Superintendent, Bloemfontein

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