William Stewart, age 34, wood sawyer
Christina Duncan Stewart age 35
1. William Stewart, Jr 10 (illegitimate)
2. Charles Stewart, age 7, born 1863 (FamilySearch has a male child born to William and Christina born 3 Nov 1862)
3. Robert (Duncan) Stewart, b 1867 age 4
4. George Stewart, born 1867, age 4
5. David, Pirie Stewart, age 3 mo (born 9 December 1870) FHL number 6035516
David died in Falkirk, Stirlingshire of infantile remittent fever on March 4, 8:45 PM with his father William, saw miller as informant.
The day after David died his sister Annie Pirie Stewart was born: Annie Ririe Stewart, Scholar age 8 (born 5 March 1873, Falkirk, Stirlingshire). Three years later William Stewart died. Falkirk is 60 miles southwest of Dundee, a considerable distance at this time.
Definitions: 1. a fever pattern in which temperature varies during each 24-hour period but never reaches normal. Most fevers are remittent and the pattern is not characteristic of any disease, although in the 19th century it was considered a diagnostic term.
The clinical usefulness of fever patterns is dubious, although there are some notable exceptions. There are five patterns: intermittent, remittent, continuous or sustained, hectic, and relapsing. With intermittent fever, the temperature is elevated but falls to normal (37.2°C or below) each day, while in a remittent fever the temperature falls each day but not to normal. In these two patterns the amplitude of temperature change is more than 0.3°C and less than 1.4°C. Either of the two patterns can be called hectic when the difference between peak and trough temperature is great (1.4°C or more). Sustained fever is a pattern in which there is little change (0.3°C or less) in the elevated temperature during a 24-hour period. In relapsing fever, a variant of the intermittent pattern, fever spikes are separated by days or weeks of intervening normal temperature.