The Baca / Douglas Genealogy and Family History Blog: Death by "summer complaint"

29 March 2016

Death by "summer complaint" - Lilly Florence Baca, 1933

My paternal grandparents lost three of their children. One child was Lilly Florence Baca, who was born on April 30, 1933 and died four months and one day later on August 30, 1933.

Her death certificate indicates that she died of bronchial pneumonia, brought on by "Summer complaint" and infectious diarrhea. I had not heard of "Summer complaint", so I decided to look it up.

According to Dictionary.com, "Summer complaint" is

noun

1. an acute condition of diarrhea, occurring during the hot summer months chiefly in infants and children, caused by bacterial contamination of food and associated with poor hygiene.

It looks like she died of food poisoning. She was the daughter of Robert Bourguignon Baca and Maria Teresa Torres.

sources:

"Socorro County Death Certificates, 1932 - 1935," database, Family Search (www.familysearch.org: accessed 29 March 2016), death certificate: Lilly Florence Baca, DOD August 30, 1930.

Definition: summer complaint, Dictionary.com, , accessed 29 March 2016.

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My Published Articles

Robert J. C. Baca and Patricia Sanchez Rau, "Petronila Garcia Jurado: Matriarch of the Rio Abajo", New Mexico Genealogist, 53 (June 2014), pp. 51-60.
Robert J. C. Baca, "Lorenzo Padilla and Maria Josefa Montoya: Early Residents of Socorro", New Mexico Genealogist, 52 (June 2013), pp. 47-52.
Robert J. C. Baca, "Early Settlers of the Socorro Land Grant: An 1818 List Part III", New Mexico Genealogist, 51 (September 2012), pp. 118-126.
Robert J. C. Baca, "Early Settlers of the Socorro Land Grant: An 1818 List Part II", New Mexico Genealogist, 51 (March 2012), pp. 10-16.
Robert J. C. Baca, "Early Settlers of the Socorro Land Grant 1818 List Part I", New Mexico Genealogist, 50 (September 2011), pp. 112-116.
Robert J. C. Baca, "The Zimmerlys of Socorro: A Swiss Civil War Soldier and an Old New Mexican Family", New Mexico Genealogist, 50 (June 2011), 50-59.
Robert J. C. Baca, "A Baca Family in Socorro County, New Mexico 1808-Present", New Mexico Genealogist, 49 (December 2010), 196-204.
Robert J. C. Baca, "Maria Guadalupe Torres: One Woman's Life in Nineteenth Century Socorro", New Mexico Genealogist, 48 (June 2009), 78-85.
Robert J. C. Baca, "From Sabinal to Socorro: Descendants of Maria Clara Lorenza Silva, Born 1794", New Mexico Genealogist, 48 (March 2009), 39-43.
Robert J. C. Baca, "The Story Behind the Photograph: Crespin Torres' Genealogy", New Mexico Genealogist, 47 (March 2008), 3-16.
Robert J. C. Baca, "Juan de la Mora Pineda and Clara de Chaves" in Gloria M. Valencia y Valdez, Jose Antonio Esquibel, Robert D. Martinez, & Francisco Sisneros, editors, Aqui Se Comienza: A Genealogical History of the Founding Families of La Villa de San Felipe de Alburquerque (Albuquerque, New Mexico: New Mexico Genealogical Society, 2007), 371-383. Hereinafter Valencia y Valdez, Aqui Se Comienza
Robert J. C. Baca, "Juan Varela Jaramillo and Isabel Cedillo Rico de Rojas" in Valencia y Valdez, Aqui Se Comienza, 485-512.