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Hi Mau
I wasn't talking about stilborn babies, I was working on a children's ward in a general hospital. My babies usually under 9 months I had nursed in incubators for varying lengths of time
with time enough to get attached. I was always transfered to childrens ward at Christmas time ( a dangerous time for infants) to decorate the ward to whatever theme the children wanted. I remember scrubbing old X-rays to make space helmets for various animals shooting up and down the wards walls-such happy times.
Norma
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Sorry Norma,
However you did say you carried dead infants and I still think you were brave
You should write down your experiences on the wards,sounds like you enjoyed the Christmas times with the children
Mau xx
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Hi PigletsPal
I don't know how far back legislation goes regarding burial of the dead. But I suspect that
hygiene matters figured large as well as religious traditions as our society developed. From what I have read and been told all burials had to be recorded locally. Though no doubt there were those who felt they had some right to pick and choose.
My local authority is missing what must have been the 1st. volume from 1929 which would have covered the period of David's death. I am on to the local archive officer tommorow.
I believe traditions and customs reflect the morality of any society and doesn't follow some natural linear flow to become more civil compassionate. There are primitive societies who had more respect for the dead and say the elderly and infirm.
I cannot concieve of myself feeling indifferent
to bereaved families just because others were. I believe in accountability particularly for those with power and not necessarily power with a big P.
Don't you think the pain should be felt ,this makes us more alert to things that need to change?
Right off my soap box now.
Norma
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Hi
At last...today I was able to speak to our towns archivist to find out if the first register of still births from 1929 was lodged in the archives. He did a quick check and said no. He did promise to check further but I'm not holding my breath.
How the council lost this historic document I have no idea.
Maybe I will have to be content to have David's Still birth certificate and assume he was buried 'somewhere' in the cemetery.
Norma
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Norma
As I understand it you are hoping for information from the actual stillbirth register, is that right?
Does your council have a bereavement office where group records / registers for the various cemeteries may be kept?
I have been able to obtain burial information this way for a particular surname and included in the list are several still births with my surname of interest.
Their address and date of burial is given, so if you could obtain something similar it would be possible to match with information that you already hold.
The records I have include stillbirths from 1879 to 1960s. Grave numbers and cemetery names are all shown.
Gwyn
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