Misinterpretation of death certificates

A large part of the conspiracy theory surrounding the Tuam Mother and Baby home lies in the misinterpretation of death certificates.

No “holocaust” perpetrators in history have ever sought to have death certificates issued for their victims. We know that 796 babies died at the home, what caused each death, what the name of the person was, if they had access to a doctor or not precisely because correct protocols had been followed and each of the 796 deaths was certified by the state.

The image here is a sample of the “Cause of Death and Duration of Illness Column” from the register of deaths. Note that the top entry gives cause of death and duration of illness. Note also that the word “certified” is written at the bottom of the entry. This means that a doctor has attended the patient while he/she was alive and diagnosed certified him/her as suffering from the stated condition. The duration of the illness also shows when the diagnosis was first made. In this case, it was two years previous.

Note the entries for the two persons below “no medical attendant”. This is a very common feature in all death records prior to the 1950s when numbers began to reduce. It means that the unfortunate sick person and their family were too poor to be able to afford a doctor. Thus that the certifying doctor took an educated guess at the cause but indicated that the cause of death was not certified.

In the case of the Tuam Mother and Baby Home in all 796 cases the cause of death was certified by a doctor. The certifying doctors appointed by the state were the local dispensary doctors.

The conspiracy theory requires that all of these doctors had to be in on the “holocaust” too. The closer one examines the whole holocaust idea, the more preposterous it becomes but then again aren’t all conspiracy theories preposterous.

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