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406 PM/1878/100
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Mary G. Shimmings, 55, Labourer's wife
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- 26 Dec 1878-6 Apr 1878 (Creation)
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(1733-)
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- Occupation or role: Labourer's wife
Gender: Female
Age: 55
Date of admission: 26 Dec 1878
Date of death: 6 Apr 1878
Disease (transcribed): Caries of the spine. Pressure on the spinal cord . Tubercular disease of lungs, kidneys and bladder
Disease (standardised): Tuberculosis (Spine); Tuberculosis (Lung); Tuberculosis (Kidney); Tuberculosis (Bladder);
Admitting doctor: Whipham, Thomas Tillyer
Medical examination performed by: Owen, Herbert Isambard
PM performed by: Ewart, William - Dent, Clinton Thomas
Medical notes: 'History. Patient's previous history healthy: family history free from heritable disease. Twelve mo. [months] before admn [admission], she began to suffer from frequent desire of micturition; cutting pain in the act, and scantiness of urine; which was very dark at times. After 3 mo. [months] the pain left her: the other symptoms persisted. She lost flesh from the first: appetite failed after 6 mo. [months]. For 9 wks .[weeks] before admission she suffered from pains on movement about the hips and coccyx. For 6, she had felt her legs numb, and the ground appeared soft under her feet, giving way where they were panted, and rising up again as they were lifted. For five weeks she had been in bed, unable to walk at all'
Body parts examined in the post mortem: Lungs, heart, liver, kidneys, spleen, bladder, spine
Type of incident: n/a
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- English
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No in register 1878: 1649
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- Whipham, Thomas Tillyer (Subject)
- Ewart, William (Subject)
- Dent, Clinton Thomas (Subject)
- Owen, Herbert Isambard (Subject)
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406